Phonemizer: Text to Phones Transcription for Multiple Languages in Python
Mathieu Bernard, Hadrien Titeux · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2021
Phones are elementary sounds the speech is made of, on which syllables and words are built.The transcription of texts from their orthographic form into a phonetic alphabet is an important requirement in various applications related to speech and language processing, for instance for text to speech systems.Phonemizer is a Python package addressing precisely this issue: it transcribes a text from its orthographic representation into a phonetic one.The package is user-friendly and exposes a single high-level phonemize function, a lower lovel API, and is also available as a command-line interface.It supports about a hundred different languages and provides end-user functionalities such as punctuation preservation, phones accentuation, tokenization at phone/syllable/word levels, as well as parallel processing of large input texts.