Phonemizer: Text to Phones Transcription for Multiple Languages in Python
Mathieu Bernard, Hadrien Titeux
Abstract
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.