English to romaji converter

This program converts english words, names and sentences to rômaji by transforming them to phonemes and then converting the phonemes to rômaji.
Rômaji (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.

Since version 1.2.0, there is now a Windows version of the program too.
To run it, open a commandline prompt, go to the directory where you put the deeng.exe file and type deeng "this is text".
The program will output your text in romaji.

NOTE: This is not a translator! This is not a dictionary!
Your text will not be japanese!
It's only japanese writing, not japanese language.

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

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

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 rômaji 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 and C++ compiler is required to recompile the source code.
For the program (including the Windows binary), you need a commandline.

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