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WTW is a proprietary system that should never be used: https://www.walklakes.co.uk/opus64534.html https://www.walklakes.co.uk/opus64534.html The biggest fault

• lxgr 3y ago
  > The biggest fault (besides being proprietary) is that you must be online in order to use WTW. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore. It's still not a great system – many included words are ambiguous (e.g. English singular and plural forms are both possible, and an "s" is notoriously difficult to hear over a bad phone line), and it's proprietary, as you already mentioned.
  • andrewaylett 3y ago
    It's definitely not the case, as the word list and algorithm are not secret (notwithstanding that they're proprietary) and have been re-implemented and ported into at least a couple of languages that allow for offline use. I have a Rust implementation that started life as a transliteration from Javascript. I wouldn't recommend using it, still -- I wrote it in the hope of finding more problems with collisions, not because I like it.