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Two ways to translate to the NATO phonetic alphabet
I spend a lot of time on the phone with tech support personnel that don't understand ticket numbers and product codes I'm reading, so I find myself using the good old NATO phonetic alphabet fairly often.
Sometimes, though, I have a hard time remembering some of the letters. P, for example, is not Peter, it's Papa.
Thankfully, developer Nicholas Wagner has two handy utilities to help. Phonetic is offered as both a desktop application for Windows and Linux and a web-based utility. The RealBasic source code is also available for download.
The web version displays translation on the fly directly the text field. It's a tool well worth bookmarking for anyone that needs to spell things out to, say, computer software or hardware support workers.
Sometimes, though, I have a hard time remembering some of the letters. P, for example, is not Peter, it's Papa.
Thankfully, developer Nicholas Wagner has two handy utilities to help. Phonetic is offered as both a desktop application for Windows and Linux and a web-based utility. The RealBasic source code is also available for download.
The web version displays translation on the fly directly the text field. It's a tool well worth bookmarking for anyone that needs to spell things out to, say, computer software or hardware support workers.
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Jonathan said 11:32AM on 12-17-2008
What is the point? It isn't hard to remember the NATO phonetic alphabet. I've always used it when calling Dell when giving service tags.
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Todd said 11:43AM on 12-17-2008
Oscar Mike Golf!!1!
*As someone who has worked as Tech Support, I find it hilarious you had to resort to phonetics...Usually its the other way around ( "Sir, just hit any key to continue...No, no, there is no key on the keyboard marked *any*, I mean.... )
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dave said 11:55AM on 12-17-2008
This is badly in need of an update.
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Modeling22 said 12:08PM on 12-17-2008
Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable....
Download Squad caused this? ;)
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SirCrumpet said 12:19PM on 12-17-2008
Well it *was* a Geocities hosted page, so I wouldn't be too surprised.
Modeling22 said 12:23PM on 12-17-2008
Remind me of a long long time ago not too far away, when I had my first website in geocities.
sybgtwy said 2:34PM on 12-17-2008
They need the phonetic alphabet from "Hot Shots" included...
"Uh, Sphincter Mucus Niner Ringworm, roger!"
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Fred Thompson said 2:52PM on 12-30-2008
Real men already know the phonetic alphabet from their days on combat duty, you civilian puke. And another, thing, scumbag, Q is "Kay-beck"! Now, drop and give me twenty!
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Dan said 11:03PM on 12-18-2008
They've had an application for this for years: Basic Training.
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gylu said 3:16AM on 12-21-2008
when I worked for an ISP on the help desk a made a very small php page to do this.
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