Phonemizer -- foʊnmaɪzɚ

• Simple text to phonemes converter for multiple languages, based on festival and espeak/espeak-ng Text-to-Speech systems.

• Provides both the phonemize command-line tool and the Python function phonemizer.phonemize

• Festival provides US English phonemization with syllable tokenization, espeak endows multiple languages but without syllable boundaries.

• The phoneset used is IPA for the espeak backend whereas festival use its default US phoneset

Installation

• First you need to install festival and espeak on your system. Visit this festival link and that espeak one for installation guidelines. On Debian/Ubuntu simply run:

    $ sudo apt-get install festival espeak
  

  Alternatively you may want to use espeak-ng (Next Generation) instead of espeak. Install it from github here.

• Then download and install the phonemizer from github with:

    $ git clone https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer
    $ cd phonemizer
    $ python setup.py build
    $ [sudo] python setup.py install
  

  The phonemize command should be in your $PATH.

Command-line exemples

• First, have a

    $ phonemize --help
  

• Input/output exemples

  • from stdin to stdout:

      $ echo "hello world" | phonemize
      hhaxlow werld
    

  • from file to stdout

      $ echo "hello world" > hello.txt
      $ phonemize hello.txt
      hhaxlow werld
    

  • from file to file

      $ phonemize hello.txt -o hello.phon --strip
      $ cat hello.phon
      hhaxlow werld
    

• Token separators

    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize -p '-' -s '|'
    hh-ax-l-|ow-| w-er-l-d-|
  
    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize -p '-' -s '|' --strip
    hh-ax-l|ow w-er-l-d
  
    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize -p ' ' -s ';esyll ' -w ';eword '
    hh ax l ;esyll ow ;esyll ;eword w er l d ;esyll ;eword
  

• Languages

  Festival US English is the default

    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize -l en-us-festival
    hhaxlow werld
  

  This uses espeak instead

    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize -l en-us
    həloʊ wɜːld
  

  In French

    $ echo "bonjour le monde" | phonemize -l fr-fr
    bɔ̃ʒuʁ lə- mɔ̃d
  

  Languages supported by festival are:

    en-us-festival	->	english-us
  

  Languages supported by espeak are (espeak-ng supports even more of them):

    af	->	afrikaans
    an	->	aragonese
    bg	->	bulgarian
    bs	->	bosnian
    ca	->	catalan
    cs	->	czech
    cy	->	welsh
    da	->	danish
    de	->	german
    el	->	greek
    en	->	default
    en-gb	->	english
    en-sc	->	en-scottish
    en-uk-north	->	english-north
    en-uk-rp	->	english_rp
    en-uk-wmids	->	english_wmids
    en-us	->	english-us
    en-wi	->	en-westindies
    eo	->	esperanto
    es	->	spanish
    es-la	->	spanish-latin-am
    et	->	estonian
    fa	->	persian
    fa-pin	->	persian-pinglish
    fi	->	finnish
    fr-be	->	french-Belgium
    fr-fr	->	french
    ga	->	irish-gaeilge
    grc	->	greek-ancient
    hi	->	hindi
    hr	->	croatian
    hu	->	hungarian
    hy	->	armenian
    hy-west	->	armenian-west
    id	->	indonesian
    is	->	icelandic
    it	->	italian
    jbo	->	lojban
    ka	->	georgian
    kn	->	kannada
    ku	->	kurdish
    la	->	latin
    lfn	->	lingua_franca_nova
    lt	->	lithuanian
    lv	->	latvian
    mk	->	macedonian
    ml	->	malayalam
    ms	->	malay
    ne	->	nepali
    nl	->	dutch
    no	->	norwegian
    pa	->	punjabi
    pl	->	polish
    pt-br	->	brazil
    pt-pt	->	portugal
    ro	->	romanian
    ru	->	russian
    sk	->	slovak
    sq	->	albanian
    sr	->	serbian
    sv	->	swedish
    sw	->	swahili-test
    ta	->	tamil
    tr	->	turkish
    vi	->	vietnam
    vi-hue	->	vietnam_hue
    vi-sgn	->	vietnam_sgn
    zh	->	Mandarin
    zh-yue	->	cantonese
  

Licence

Copyright 2015 - 2017 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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.