Klingon Name Generator _V2

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Follow the Project on GitHub

This project is open source and available on GitHub. Feel free to use the source in your commercial and non commercial projects. If you want create a backlink to this page.

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JavaScript API

Getting started

To use the generator in your own scripts just include the klingonName.js into your projects:

<script src="js/klingonName.js"></script>

Then init a generator for each name you want to generate:

var my_klingon_name_a = new klingonName({
    min_syllables:2,
    max_syllables:3
});

var my_klingon_name_b = new klingonName({
    min_syllables:2,
    max_syllables:3
});

Available Options

• min_syllables: Default is 2
• max_syllables: Default is 3
• seed: Generator seed, default is 666
• phoneme_weights: Array - List of one or more supported phoneme weights. Possible is male or female, default is []
• phonemes: Array - Feel free to add your own or modified list of phonemes with different weights. Check out the klingonName.js for the default value.
• syllables: Array - Feel free to add your own list of syllable configurations. Check out the klingonName.js for the default value.

Availabble Methods

Use public methods to get data from the object:

var random_name = my_klingon_name.getString();
var random_ipa_name = my_klingon_name.getIpaString();
var descriptions = my_klingon_name.getDescriptions();

• string getString(bool hyphenation, bool split): Returns the full generated name as string
• string getIpaString(bool hyphenation, bool split): Returns the full generated ipa string of the name
• array getDescriptions(): Returns an array of objects containing the letter and the description, for each phoneme of the generated name [{string letter,string description},{...}]

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Website integration

If you have a website you can easily integrate the translator as an iframe:

<iframe src="http://klingon.steampixel.de/app/" width="100%" height="550px" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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Mobile App

If you want a mobile version for this app check out https://klingon.steampixel.de/app/. You can than create a shortcut on your device if you want.

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History and Background

A few month ago I wrote a small android app to generate random klingon names. Just for fun and testing. Than a few days later I've got mail from Lieven L. Litaer. He is Klingon teacher from Germany and he told me that my app is really really bad :-). It was just combining random Klingon consonants and vowels. So the names the app was generating cannot be spoken by any real Klingon. He gave me a few basic Klingon phonemic rules on how to build syllables, words and real Klingon names that can be spoken by a Klingon. With his support I was able to translate his rules into the web programming language JavaScript and released this as an web app. This is the second version of the generator. It uses a more stable JavaScript design pattern and provides an programming interface. So you can use this code inside your own apps. Have fun with the generator.

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