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Soundspel is my personal favorite proposal, it is easy for existing English readers to read, I suspect only a few hours would be needed to come to to full speed.

With most text being read on a screen now days, phones and computers could have a button to switch between spelling systems.

Sadly, it'll never happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundSpel

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It's interesting ChatGPT can't produce anything close to SoundSpell no matter how I prompt it, it will invent its own system.

I'm sure it can be easily be trained to with enough samples just like it knows any other language, but for now it seems a good way to know you are reading a human generated text.

Interesting, but surely thought should be thawt instead of thot.

That one stood out for me too. I think there’s a lot of pronunciation nuance that would be lost with SoundSpel.

I’d distrust any top-down effort to change a language anyway. It belongs to the users and they’ll adapt it to their needs the way they see fit.

Honestly if we are using a perfectly phonical system, I feel the correct answer would be to spell it however your local dialect pronounces it.

For my Pacific Northwest accent, either pronunciation works fine.

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