phonetics
IPA-based phonetic distance for Python, built on a Rust core.
Install
pip install phonetics-ipa
The PyPI package is phonetics-ipa (the bare phonetics name is held
by an unrelated metaphone library). The importable module is still
phonetics:
import phonetics
Usage
import phonetics
# Strict per-phoneme acoustic distance, 0..1
phonetics.distance("p", "b") # 0.15 (voicing flip)
phonetics.distance("ɑ", "ɔ") # ~0.21 (acoustically distinct)
# Listener-confusion distance, Mad Gab calibrated
target = "ɪtsdʒʌstəstupɪdgeɪm" # "It's just a stupid game"
clue = "hɪtsdʒʌstɪsduphɪdkeɪm" # "Hits Justice Dupe Hid Came"
phonetics.confusion(target, clue) # ~0.77
phonetics.similarity(target, clue) # ~0.96 (high listener overlap)
# Perceptual per-phoneme (with empirical confusion overlay)
phonetics.sub_cost("t", "ɾ") # ~0.10 (American t-flapping)
phonetics.sub_cost("ɑ", "ɔ") # ~0.05 (cot/caught merger, WCE)
# Tokenisation
phonetics.tokenize("kɑɪt") # ['k', 'ɑɪ', 't'] (diphthong atomic)
phonetics.tokenize("it is", boundaries=True) # ['i', 't', '#', 'i', 's']
See https://github.com/JackDanger/phonetics for the extended write-up of the metric design and the parity tests against Mad Gab puzzles.
License
MIT.
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