Misheard
wordlab.rickinto.place- Category
- Entertainment
- Rank
- No. 174Apps board
- Type
- TOOL
- Date
About
A web tool that takes a typed phrase and generates alternate word-boundary readings of the same sequence of sounds, such as turning 'recognize speech' into 'wreck a nice beach.' It draws phoneme data from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, word frequencies from OpenSubtitles, and sound-confusion costs derived from Miller and Nicely's 1955 study to rank plausible mishearings.
Why it made the leaderboard
Turns phonetics data (CMU dictionary, OpenSubtitles frequencies, confusion costs from a 1955 hearing study) into a genuinely entertaining language experiment anyone can play with immediately.
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oronymsmondegreenswordplaylinguisticsphonetics
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