pronunciation-dictionary 0.0.4

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

pronunciation-dictionary

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

Features

• Load dictionary from file or URL
  • Parsing of
    • line comments
    • pronunciation comments
    • numbers indicating alternative pronunciations for words
    • weights
  • Multiprocessing for faster deserialization
• Save dictionary to file
  • including numbers for alternative pronunciations
  • include weights
  • set word/weight/pronunciation separator
• Select pronunciation via
  • weight
  • highest/lowest weight
  • first/last
  • random
• Get phoneme set

Roadmap

• Adding tests

Example dictionaries and deserialization arguments

• Montreal Forced Aligner dictionaries
  • encoding: "UTF-8"
• CMU
  • encoding: "ISO-8859-1"
  • consider_numbers: True
  • consider_pronunciation_comments: True
• LibriSpeech
  • encoding: "UTF-8"
• Prosodylab
• Old: CMU 0.7b
  • encoding: "ISO-8859-1"
  • consider_comments: True
  • consider_numbers: True

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

from pronunciation_dictionary import load_dict, save_dict, MultiprocessingOptions, DeserializationOptions, SerializationOptions

Citation

If you want to cite this repo, you can use this bibtex-entry:

@misc{tspd22,
  author = {Taubert, Stefan},
  title = {pronunciation-dictionary},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/stefantaubert/pronunciation-dictionary}}
}