Shavian & Quikscript

Black Envelope

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About this app

The Shavian alphabet (or Shaw alphabet) was posthumously created as an alphabet for the English language, intended to replace Latin. Each character in the Shavian Alphabet requires only a single stroke to be written on paper. The Shaw alphabet was later evolved by its designer Kingsley Read into Quickscript (also known as the Read alphabet and Second Shaw).

Ratings and reviews

Transcripts are completely wrong. Try share, care, pure for example but many other words are just not right when transcripted. Usability not great either. Anyway I like the idea. I just use this for quick reference now. I do hope it improves as I like it overall.

I like that this exists and though it is helpful, for whatever reason the [air] sound will always appear as the [ur] character which makes it hard for me to fully trust the translations

An excellent resource as a starting point for people interested in learning the Shavian alphabet, however users need to check for errors in translation. Since Shavian is phonemic, not phonetic, using phonetics as the basis of translation will inevitably cause inaccuracies. The app itself also still needs development, can be a bit buggy. Overall recommend, hoping that it continues to be developed.

What's new

- Fix crucial bug in phoneme transcription
- Many improvements to system keyboard layouts
- Some UI improvements