Glish

Watch the video about this project: https://youtu.be/sRbcw2sGkJw

Interactive Demo Translator tool here: https://paralogical.dev/glish/

Goal: Make a version of English where every word is only one syllable

Inputs:

• words by frequency (optimize monosyllabification for more common words) inputs/word_frequency.txt
• words with pronunciations and split by syllables (CMU Dict syllablized) Note: multiple valid pronunciations for any given word, but all American english

Stages:

• syllablize.ts → convert CMU dict to JSON mapping of word → IPA split by syllables
• main.ts → load IPA syllables and generate new monosyllabic version of all words
• sonorityGraph.ts → data structure that helps generate new syllables following sonority sequencing.
• respellIPA.ts → convert IPA back into "readable" latin alphabet.

To run code to generate Glish language mapping,

• ts-node syllablize.ts to generate outputs/syllablizedIPA.json + syllableGraph + big list of randomly generated syllables
• ts-node main.ts to generate outputs/monosyllabic.json & other monosyllabic results

To run UI,

• cd ui
• npm run dev