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Phonemizer -- foʊnmaɪzɚ

• The phonemizer allows simple phonemization of words and texts in many languages.
• Provides both the phonemize command-line tool and the Python functionphonemizer.phonemize. See the package's documentation.
• It is based on four backends: espeak, espeak-mbrola, festival andsegments. The backends have different properties and capabilities resumed in table below. The backend choice is let to the user.
  • espeak-ng is a Text-to-Speech software supporting a lot of languages and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) output.
  • espeak-ng-mbrolauses the SAMPA phonetic alphabet instead of IPA but does not preserve word boundaries.
  • festival is another Tex-to-Speech engine. Its phonemizer backend currently supports only American English. It uses a custom phoneset, but it allows tokenization at the syllable level.
  • segments is a Unicode tokenizer that build a phonemization from a grapheme to phoneme mapping provided as a file by the user.

    espeak	espeak-mbrola	festival	segments
    phone set	IPA	SAMPA	custom	user defined
    supported languages	100+	35	US English	user defined
    processing speed	fast	slow	very slow	fast
    phone tokens	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
    syllable tokens	❌	❌	✔️	❌
    word tokens	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️
    punctuation preservation	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️
    stressed phones	✔️	❌	❌	❌
    tie	✔️	❌	❌	❌

Citation

To refenrece the phonemizer in your own work, please cite the following JOSS paper.

@article{Bernard2021, doi = {10.21105/joss.03958}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03958}, year = {2021}, publisher = {The Open Journal}, volume = {6}, number = {68}, pages = {3958}, author = {Mathieu Bernard and Hadrien Titeux}, title = {Phonemizer: Text to Phones Transcription for Multiple Languages in Python}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }

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Copyright 2015-2021 Mathieu Bernard

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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