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Mnemonic major system app: A customizable dictionary to search words from number

What is a Mnemonic Major System ?

The major system (also called the phonetic number system, phonetic mnemonic system, or Herigone’s mnemonic system) is a mnemonic technique used to help in memorizing numbers.

The system works by converting numbers into consonants, then into words by adding vowels. The system works on the principle that images can be remembered more easily than numbers.

Wikipedia

How to search in the dictionnary ?

The idea is to use a phonetical dictionnary like this one → ipa-dict

Associate with each sound a number (that’s where the customizable part is)
You can listen the sound of each symbols on IPA-Chart

And search for words that match the patern.

For example take 42, 4 is /r/ or /ɹ/ and 2 is /n/ with the IPA. So now, we need to find the patern /rn/ or /ɹn/ with vowel before, between or after those 2 consonants in the dictionary.

in regex it would be something like `[<vowel>]*[rɹ][<vowel>]*n[<vowel>]*`

The APP

NOTE

it’s only a Proof Of Concept, this app may or may not be further developed

the app is coded in python with the Kivy framework

To build it the easy way, let’s use Buildozer

See installation instructions Here
And the Kivy instructions on how to build it Here

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an android app to use the mnemonic major system

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