In 1869, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an edition of the Book of Mormon using the Deseret Alphabet which has since become a collector's item commanding prices of over $2000. The text was prepared by Orson Pratt at Brigham Young's direction.
To celebrate the sesquecentennial of the settlement of Salt Lake City–and because I have the technology to do it–I've matched Brother Orson's work and done him two better by also producing Deseret Alphabet versions of the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price. The whole shebang is available as a pdf file which can be viewed on a whole slew of platforms using Adobe's free pdf viewer software, and it doesn't require any fonts to be installed on your system (in theory).
One caveat: My edition was produced by computer, and not by hand. This means three things.
One is that the current software doesn't handle cases where a spelling has two or more pronunciations ("read", "lead", "bow") at all well. Someday I'm going to add a bit more sophistication to handle that.
Another is that the computer sometimes had to figure out how to pronounce a certain word on its own. This is particularly true of proper nouns. I used two databases of English phonetic data available on the Internet for the basic source of the conversions, and I supplemented these with a couple of hundred pronunciations of my own. There are still a couple of hundred words where the computer—a Macintosh running Mac OS 8 and using Apple's built-in text-to-speech software—had to come up with its own pronunciations. It does a fairly good job on the whole but there are some surprises.
Finally, a linguist would distinguish between a phonemic and a phonetic spelling of a word. The former is a reflection of the abstract sounds we theoretically make when we talk, and the latter the sounds we actually make. A good example is the "-ty" suffix of the number words 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90. All these words end with the same phonemes (which is why we spell them all the same way), but in actual fact, the "t" sometimes becomes a "d" when we actually speak them (listen closely when you talk). My software is based on phonetics and not phonemics, which means that the words are spelled in the Deseret Alphabet the way they are actually pronounced, and not in accordance with their theoretical sounds.
Bottom line: Some of the spellings you'll see look strange. That's OK. Some of these strange spellings are mistakes, it's true, but some aren't. (Meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure out why Orson Pratt chose some of the spellings he used, such as for the word "Deseret" itself, so I'm in good company.)
The up side is that it only took me a couple of hours to produce the actual text. In fact, I spent a lot more time editing the text to make it look pretty on the page than I spent actually generating it.
Overview of the Deseret Alphabet
The Deseret Alphabet and Computers
The Deseret Alphabet and Unicode