Speller helps you spell out words using know spelling alphabets. When you're on the phone trying to spell a difficult word, or when you want to sound like you're a pilot.
Speller spells out words for you using any of the provided spelling alphabets. At the moment you can choose among the following spelling alphabets:
- International Radiotelephony
- US Financial
- LAPD
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- PGP Word List
If a letter is not found in the spelling alphabet, a minimum description of the character is provided, based on:
- Emoji description
- Basic Latin
- Latin 1 Supplement
- Latin Extended A
- Latin Extended B
The most famous spelling alphabet is probably the InternationalRadiotelephony, also know as the NATO alphabet.
Use the Speller class to spell a word, using one of the spelling alphabets:
Speller.spell(phrase: "Bagpipe", withSpellingAlphabet: .InternationalRadiotelephony)The returned value is an array of spelled characters with their corresponding codewords:
let spelling = Speller.spell(phrase: "Bagpipe", withSpellingAlphabet: .InternationalRadiotelephony)
print(spelling)
// [B: Bravo, a: Alfa, g: Golf, p: Papa, i: India, p: Papa, e: Echo]