pyenglish2pinyin 0.1.1

Convert English words to numbered Pinyin using CMUdict IPA.

PYENGLISH2PINYIN

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Convert English words to numbered Pinyin(mandarin/chinese phonetic system) through CMUdict IPA.

Input and Output Examples

English word to Pinyin (12 verified examples)

English Word	Pinyin Output
record	ruo5 kao1 r5 de5
communication	ka5 mu5 yu4 na5 kui1 sha5 en5
in	yi5 en5
securing	xi5 ke5 yu1 rui5 eng5
prime	po5 ruo1 mu5
foreign	fan1 ruo5 en5
aldinger	ao1 ao5 di5 eng5 r5
engleman	yi1 eng5 a5 ao5 ma5 en5
legacy	lai1 ga5 xi5
blotting	bo5 la1 ti5 eng5
english	yi1 eng5 ge5 li5 shi5
banana	ba5 nai1 na5

IPA to Pinyin

IPA Input	Pinyin Output
AE2 P L AH0 K EY1 SH AH0 N	ai4 po5 la5 kui1 sha5 en5
S IH0 K Y UH1 R IH0 NG	xi5 ke5 yu1 rui5 eng5
L EH1 G AH0 S IY0	lai1 ga5 xi5

This is especially helpful when training FastSpeech2 speech synthesis for mixed Chinese and English text, because it reduces dataset preparation effort for text normalization and phoneme alignment while keeping pronunciation labels consistent.

Install

pip install pyenglish2pinyin

Usage

from english2pinyin import english2ipa, english2pinyin, ipa2pinyin

print(english2ipa("application"))
# AE2 P L AH0 K EY1 SH AH0 N

print(english2pinyin("application"))
# ai4 po5 la5 kui1 sha5 en5

print(ipa2pinyin("S IH0 K Y UH1 R IH0 NG"))
# xi5 ke5 yu1 rui5 eng5

API

• english2ipa(word, dict_path=None) -> str | None
• english2pinyin(word, dict_path=None, throw_if_missing=False) -> str
• ipa2pinyin(ipa_text) -> str

Development

pip install -e .[dev]
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