Kirshenbaum
System used for represent the International Phonetic Alphabet in ASCII format / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the surname (spelled with or without a "c"), see Kirschenbaum (surname).
Kirshenbaum /ˈkɜːrʃənbɔːm/, sometimes called ASCII-IPA or erkIPA, is a system used to represent the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in ASCII. This way it allows typewriting IPA-symbols by regular keyboard. It was developed for Usenet, notably the newsgroups sci.lang and alt.usage.english. It is named after Evan Kirshenbaum, who led the collaboration that created it. The eSpeak open source software speech synthesizer uses the Kirshenbaum scheme.