But how do you map from written form to IPA phonemes? For instance french is going to have a big problem there. Foie /fwa/ is a good example as has o, i and e written, but you pronounce a and some sort of u...
Why? All you need is the rules that govern French writing. They clearly exist, else humans couldn't read French either. It can't be harder than English where the rules amount to "look it up in the dictionary".
