http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain http://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/Phono.htm http://www.asha.org/pra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain http://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/Phono.htm http://www.asha.org/practice/multicultural/Phono.htm I don't write a lot of fiction anymore, but one of the best ways to generate names is to create a phonemic inventory and use markov chains to generate names from it. there are a couple such generators online that use established corpuses, but it shouldn't be too hard to write.