alkana.py

A tool to get the katakana reading of an alphabetical string.

Installing

Python 3 or higher is required.

From pip

python3 -m pip install -U alkana.py

Clone from GitHub

$ git clone https://github.com/cod-sushi/alkana.py
$ cd alkana.py
$ python3 -m pip install -U .

Example

Python import

Quick example:

import alkana

print(alkana.get_kana("Hello"))
print(alkana.get_kana("World"))
print(alkana.get_kana("abcdefg"))

Output of above example is:

ハロー
ワールド
None

If the reading is not exist, Returns None.

Command line

$ alkana hello
ハロー
$ alkana world
ワールド
$ alkana abcdefg

If the reading is not exist, there is no output.

Copyrights

Alphabetical word - katakana dictionary's data is from bep-eng.dic.

Bilingual Emacspeak Project (c) 1999-2002 Bilingual Emacspeak Project

Lisence

GPLv2