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Shave converts English between the ordinary Roman alphabet and the Shavian alphabet, in both directions. People often call it a Shavian translator; strictly it is a transliterator, because Shavian is another alphabet for English, not another language, so your words stay the same and only the letters change. It works on plain text, whole web pages and EPUB books.
The Shavian alphabet, also called the Shaw alphabet, was funded by George Bernard Shaw's will and published in 1962. It spells English by sound, with a distinct letter for each sound, so it needs no silent letters and no doubled consonants.
Why does the world need yet another Shavian conversion tool, I hear you ask? Well, this one isn't like the other transliterators. Inspired by Dave Coffin's transliterator, it uses rules to figure out the words it doesn't know yet. Also like his tool, it uses a ML engine to disambiguate words like 'read' and 'lead' by using part-of-speech (POS) tagging.
Unlike Dave's tool, shave has an 'after-burner' in the form of a word-sense-disambiguator. This is another ML that I trained specifically for this transliterator, on ambiguous cases that are hard in Shavian, like 'bow' and 'tear'. It also is quite honest about what it does and doesn't know. Each decision it makes is assigned a 'certainty', and if it isn't sure, it can surface multiple options to you so you can choose.
Oh, and it also has a reverse transliteration mode, converting Shavian back into Latin spelling. Try it in this 'text' mode. It too uses some ML tricks to narrow down the odds and decide whether "I" is more likely than "Eye". It's fresh from the press, and still under active development, but you will find that it's already pretty usable.
Beyond plain text, shave converts whole EPUB books and live web pages, and lets you correct any word it got wrong.
Shave includes fonts from Shavian.info and Haley Wakamatsu, as well as my very own Bernie Sans.