English to romaji converter

This program converts english words, names and sentences to romaji by transforming them to phonemes and then converting the phonemes to romaji.
Romaji (ローマ字) is the romanization (transliteration to latin characters) of the japanese writing.
This page therefore contains an english to japanese writing -converter.

NOTE: This is neither a translator nor a dictionary!
It only converts between different writing methods!

Sorry, I do not have a reverse converter (katakana to english) here.
But I do have a kana and kanji to romaji filter.

If you want to convert romaji to english, try looking the words up from a dictionary.

Thanks pc3-cove2-4-cust167.brhm.cable.ntl.com .. Colin Clark? .. for reporting this service was down for a while.

Tuesday 19th November 2002, I happened to browse my access log...
Here are some queries people have tried today:

alb-66-66-228-239.nycap.rr.com - - [19/Nov/2002:00:19:04 +0200] "How   are  you"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:02:56:04 +0200] "Friday"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:02:32 +0200] "School"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:04:52 +0200] "Sunday"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:05:31 +0200] "Monday"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:06:26 +0200] "Tuesday"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:08:32 +0200] "Saturday"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:16:40 +0200] "good morning"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:17:43 +0200] "wake up"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:19:46 +0200] "breakfast"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:20:28 +0200] "walk  on  the  beach"
prx5.qld2.schools.net.au       - - [19/Nov/2002:03:20:51 +0200] "walk on the beach"
filterproxy2.syd.ozemail.net   - - [19/Nov/2002:04:18:32 +0200] "kyle  is  a  fag"
filterproxy1.syd.ozemail.net   - - [19/Nov/2002:04:19:19 +0200] "mrs  hartman  is  gay"
host154-45.student.udel.edu    - - [19/Nov/2002:05:57:57 +0200] "Look at the blue sky."
host154-45.student.udel.edu    - - [19/Nov/2002:05:58:17 +0200] "Look at the blue sky."
nat140-82.mpoweredpc.net       - - [19/Nov/2002:14:54:12 +0200] "accidents...the product of human evolution"
nat140-82.mpoweredpc.net       - - [19/Nov/2002:14:54:52 +0200] "accidents...the  product  of  human  evolution"
nat140-82.mpoweredpc.net       - - [19/Nov/2002:14:55:21 +0200] "death  to  democracy"
nat140-82.mpoweredpc.net       - - [19/Nov/2002:14:55:41 +0200] "down   with   democracy"
nat140-82.mpoweredpc.net       - - [19/Nov/2002:14:55:50 +0200] "democracy"
nat140-82.mpoweredpc.net       - - [19/Nov/2002:14:56:07 +0200] "death   to   democracy"

You must try hard if you want to supplement this list ;)

deeng has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a. Bisqwit,
and is distributed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL).

The English to phonemes tables and code were directly copied from the public domain rsynth-2.0 project (speech synthesizer), which copies the data from a publication from 1976.

Phoneme code to romaji conversion is based on a direct conversion with no dictionary, so you might get different results than when looking at your dictionary.

The conversion program is quite logical and straightforward.
English isn't. Therefore the results might not be the best quality. An example of poorly converted word is "what".

GNU make is required.

The official home page of deeng is at http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/deeng.html.
Check there for new versions.