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Shave converts English between the ordinary Roman alphabet and the Shavian alphabet. Shave is a Shavian translator - or strictly speaking, a Shavian transliterator, or a Shavian converter if you prefer. 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.