A typical phone-text app now offers access to a large number of little pictures as alternatives to words.
Hook up such an app to voice-recognition software - but, instead of just writing a picture of a thing named, have the software pluck out from the stream of phonemes any sequence which can be mapped to any picture in the library, where words map to pictures many-to-many.
A groan-slider widget sets the level of permissible machine-generated bad punning.
An ex-rebus mode, combined with a high slider setting, allows this software to be used as a crude means to encrypt communication.
Ideally, advanced rebus constructions* would also be supported, but the algorithm for that would not be trivial.
*Such as the famous postal address WOOD JOHN MASS-- pertinax, Sep 17 2016 What a rebus is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RebusSome people seem to need this ... [pertinax, Sep 26 2016] Some rebus-sprinkled text ... https://kendeacon.f.../mary-plain-026.jpg... such as might be emulated by this app. [pertinax, Sep 26 2016] // level of permissible machine-generated bad punning //
Presumably there will be a "maximum boost" setting, marked "HB" ...-- 8th of 7, Sep 17 2016 No relation to the detective?-- not_morrison_rm, Sep 17 2016 Presumably not - unless transmission is in Morse.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 18 2016 More likely to be a message from Fax Mulder ...-- 8th of 7, Sep 18 2016 I like this, so I voted for it.-- beanangel, Sep 24 2016 That's definitely the way it works.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 24 2016 random, halfbakery