Gibberizer

Gibberizer is a tool for creating familiar-sounding gibberish. You enter some text, and Gibberizer generates gibberish that is lexically similar to the text you entered.

• Gibberish means that the generated text will be, to some extent, weird. Depending on your settings, the generated text will consist mostly of words and phrases that do not appear in your text.

• Similar means that the gibberish will be somewhat familiar-sounding, generally pronounceable, and perhaps nearly meaningful.

• You can adjust the degree of similarity or weirdness you want in the gibberish.

Uses

Why would you want familiar-sounding gibberish?

1. To create names for fictional people, places, and things. Many of the generated names will be unusual-but-plausible, and will seem to come more or less from the same culture as the given names.

1. Come on, admit it: gibberish is fun! Paste something you or a friend have written into the input box, set the familiarity to 7 or so, and glick the Gibberize button to create a weird variation. Or enter 20 friends and family names, set the familiarity to 3 or 4, and Gibberize to invent similar names.

Documentation

• The Gibberizer User Guide briefly describes the knobs and buttons you can tweak to bend Gibberizer to your will.
• The Gibberizer Wiki (a work in progress) describes some of the technical ideas behind Gibberizer.
• Ways to Play describes settings for a few specific uses of Gibberizer.
• The Gibberizing Process describes technical details of how Gibberizer operates.