HMM automatic vowel detection

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If someone were creating ciphered text in which the vowels were hidden, then adding vowels as nulls, by hand, would create text that somewhat approximates the vowel-consonant balance of normal text.

Example:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


Simple 1-to-1 substitution that obscures the vowels:

ñs9 µqht∫ πckbr wkd ∂qnjf kv9c ñs9 8mzx lkg



Add fake vowels (doesn't even have to be a full set of vowels):

ñoßo9 µqhato∫ πackbor owcckd ∂aqnojfo kov9ca oñoß9 8amozax lokga


If you want to obscure it even more, without making it too hard to read back, shuffle the spaces slightly:

ñoso9 µqhato ∫πackbo rowcck d∂aq nojfo kov9ca oñas9 8 amozax lokga


Read it out loud. It almost makes sense in some old-language kind of a way.

Notice that the word "the" can be ñoso9, oñas9 and many other variations, which means if you try to follow a "word" through the whole document, it will never make any sense because other words will coincidentally look the same and the same word will often look different. The usual sentence patterns will not emerge.

If you want the letters to look more similar to one another, then use slight variations on a made-up shape (like a glyph that alternately has one loop or two).