ipa.js

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// Copyright 2009 John Tantalo <john.tantalo@gmail.com>

(function () {
  // get selection
  var selection = window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() :
    document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() :
    document.selection ? document.selection.createRange().text : '';
  // stringify selection
  if (selection) {
    selection = String(selection);
  }
  if (selection) {
    // find IPA
    var match = selection.match('\/(.*)\/');
    var ipa;
    if (match && match[1]) {
      ipa = match[1];
    }
    if (!ipa) {
      ipa = prompt("Couldn't find any IPA. Type it in instead?");
    }
    if (ipa) {
      // escape
      ipa = ipa.replace(/./g, function (c) { 
        if (/%u0(...)/.test(escape(c))) {
          return escape(c).replace(/%u0(...)/g, '&#x$1;');
        } else {
          return c;
        }
      });
      // prepare request
      var request = {
         txt: '<phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="'+ipa+'"> </phoneme>',
         voice: 'crystal'
      };
      // create iframe
      var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
      iframe.name = iframe.id = "iframe"+new Date().getTime();
      document.body.appendChild(iframe);
      // create form
      var form = document.createElement('form');
      form.target = iframe.name;
      form.method = 'post';
      form.action = 'http://192.20.225.36/tts/cgi-bin/nph-nvdemo';
      form.acceptCharset = "iso-8859-1";
      form.style.display = 'none';
      // add parameters
      for (var name in request) {
        var input = document.createElement('input');
        input.name = name;
        input.value = request[name];
        form.appendChild(input);
      }
      document.body.appendChild(form);
      // submit form
      form.submit();
    }
  } else {
    alert("Select some IPA.");
  }
})()