pronunciation-dictionary 0.0.3

Library to load/save/modify pronunciation dictionaries (any language).

pronunciation-dictionary

Library and CLI to load/save/modify pronunciation dictionaries (any language).

Features

• Export vocabulary
• Export phoneme set
• Merge multiple pronunciation dictionaries
• Extract subset of pronunciation dictionary
• Remove characters from vocabulary
• Remove phonemes from pronunciations
• Change formatting
• Select single pronunciation per word

Roadmap

• Adding tests
• Implementation of printing of statistics
• Implementation of phoneme mapping, e.g., mapping ARPAbet to IPA

Example dictionaries and deserialization arguments

• Montreal Forced Aligner dictionaries
  • --deserialization-encoding "UTF-8"
• CMU
  • --deserialization-encoding "ISO-8859-1"
  • --consider-numbers
  • --consider-pronunciation-comments
• LibriSpeech
  • --deserialization-encoding "UTF-8"
• Prosodylab
• Old: CMU 0.7b
  • --deserialization-encoding "ISO-8859-1"
  • --consider-comments
  • --consider-numbers

Excerpt from CMU (as example)

a.d. EY2 D IY1
a.m. EY2 EH1 M
a.s EY1 Z
aaa T R IH2 P AH0 L EY1
aaberg AA1 B ER0 G
aachen AA1 K AH0 N
aachener AA1 K AH0 N ER0
aaker AA1 K ER0
aalborg AO1 L B AO0 R G # place, danish
aalborg(2) AA1 L B AO0 R G

Installation

pip install pronunciation-dictionary --user

Usage

pronunciation-dictionary-cli -h