lotusfa/ipa-translator-skill/ipa-translator-skill

IPA Translator — Agent Interface

Translate text to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) via a web interface.

Prerequisites

Required Tooling

To use this, you must use a browser-based tool like agent-browser or a headless engine (Playwright/Puppeteer) that executes JavaScript.

Do not use curl or HTTP tools — the page runs entirely in the browser (client-side JS fetches IPA databases and processes text).

Base URL

https://toolbox.lotusfa.com/ipa/agent.html

How to Use

Navigate to the URL with query parameters. The page runs entirely in the browser — JavaScript fetches the IPA database and processes the text client-side.

https://toolbox.lotusfa.com/ipa/agent.html?language=<code>&input=<text>[&format=<format>][&variant=<variant>][&displayFormat=<format>]

Browser Usage

# Using agent-browser
agent-browser open "https://toolbox.lotusfa.com/ipa/agent.html?language=cantonese&format=Jyutping&input=%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD"
agent-browser wait --load networkidle
agent-browser get text pre  # Get the IPA output
 
# Using WebFetch
WebFetch url="https://toolbox.lotusfa.com/ipa/agent.html?language=german&input=Hallo Welt" prompt="Extract the plain text IPA output from the page"

Supported Languages

Examples

• Cantonese → Jyutping
• Mandarin → Pinyin
• German IPA
• Vietnamese (Southern)
• Korean
• Japanese
• IPA only (no text)
• JSON output

Output

The page renders plain text in a <pre> element. No extra UI, no HTML wrapping. Errors appear as plain text starting with "Error:" or "Unknown".

Notes

• Visit without parameters to see the full documentation page with language table.
• Non-ASCII input must be URL-encoded (e.g., 你好 → %E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD).