Show HN: I Made a Simple Tool to Get English IPA Pronunciation Fast

I remember when I was learning how to read, and I complained to my father how unphonetic English was. "Why can't we just write the words the way we say them?"

He said, "Well, which pronunciation should we use?" His point is illustrated in the option you have to get the phonemes for English vs. American pronunciation.

Each of those options, for example, should have thousands of sub options :-) e.g. I was born in Indiana, and we said "coffee" something like "k-awe-fee". I went out to Silicon Vally (pronounced "Sili-kun" valley, not "Sili-kon" valley, and they pronounce "coffee" something like "kuffy".

Then I moved to Manhattan, and the barista asked me if I wanted some "k-ah-ow-ah-fee. She managed to fit at least 6 more vowel sounds in between the "K" and the "f" in "kahowahfee", and honked out half of them through her nose.

Currently, in elementary education, we are having a very strong push to teach reading phonetically--the (so-called) "Science of Reading" methodology which is being mandated by educational regulators. English simply cannot be spelled phonetically, it is a much too rich of a language for that.