/thai-transcribe — Thai Transcription Skill for Claude Code

Transcribe Thai text to Roman alphabet using the Royal Institute of Thailand's 1999 transcription rules. Pronunciation-based, not character-by-character.

Example

Thai	Transcription
สวัสดีครับ	sawatdi khrap
ผมชื่อสมชาย	phom chue somchai
ไปเจอกันที่สุขุมวิท	pai joe kan thi sukhumwit

Installation

Install to all projects (global)

# From this repo (after cloning or downloading):
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r .claude/skills/thai-transcribe ~/.claude/skills/thai-transcribe

Install to a single project

# In your project root:
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r path/to/thai-transcribe/.claude/skills/thai-transcribe .claude/skills/

Then restart Claude Code.

Usage

In Claude Code, type /thai-transcribe followed by Thai text:

/thai-transcribe สวัสดีครับ ผมชื่อสมชาย

Or just ask Claude Code to transcribe Thai text directly — the skill auto-activates.

What's Inside

• SKILL.md — The complete skill definition with all transcription rules
• README.md — This file
• LICENSE — MIT License

Rules Covered

• Consonant mapping (initial & final position)
• Vowel & diphthong mapping
• Spacing, hyphenation & capitalization rules
• Special characters (ๆ, ฯ, ฯลฯ)
• Number-to-phonetic conversion
• Common words reference table

License

MIT — see LICENSE file.