pinyin-jyutping-sentence 0.3

Convert a Chinese sentence to Pinyin or Jyutping

Python module which converts a Chinese sentence from Simplified to Mandarin/Pinyin and Traditional to Cantonese/Jyutping, outputting diacritics (accented characters)

Install

$ pip install pinyin_jyutping_sentence

Usage

>>> import pinyin_jyutping_sentence
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.pinyin("提高口语")
'tígāo kǒuyǔ'
>>> pinyin_jyutping_sentence.jyutping("我出去攞野食")
'ngǒ cēothêoi ló jěsik'

How it works

Uses the Jieba library (https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba) to tokenize the sentence. Then words are converted to Pinyin/Jyutping either as a whole, or character by character, using the CC-Canto dictionary (http://cantonese.org/about.html). The Jyutping diacritic convertion is not standard but original described here: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,127274,129006