sentence-mixing 2.0.4

Sentence mixing library

Sentence mixing

This library is used to analyze and smartly reorder phonemes of an audio sequence to form any desired sentence. The goal of this library is to generate Sentence Mixing Youtube poops (example).

Entry file is sentence_mixer.py. Here are examples of applications based on the library:

• CLI application
• GUI application (unstable)

MFA

SM library is using Montreal Forced Aligner, a powerful tool used to timestamp words and phonemes in a subtitled audio file.

Installing MFA

1. Download release executable version 1.1.0 Beta 2
2. Extract it as Montreal-Forced-Aligner

JSON config file

To use the library, you have to provide a json configuration file. Here are all the fields to add into it:

• dict_path: Path to dictionnary file. This dictionnary associates every words of a language to associated phonemes
• align_exe: MFA executable file
• trained_model: pre-trained model MFA will use. Should be a ZIP file
• lang: three languages are supported for the moment: fr, en and de
• dict_consonant_vowel_path: Path to dictionary declaring the consonant and vowel phonemes
• folder: Folder where the Youtube subtitles will be stored

This config file should be passed through the function prepare_sm_config_file

Recommended config.json

Example for French language:

• dict_path: choose fr/fr.dict dictionary in SM-Dictionaries repo
• align_exe: Montreal-Forced-Aligner/bin/mfa_align
• trained_model: choose french prosodylab model among MFA pretrained model
• lang: fr
• dict_consonant_vowel_path: choose fr/fr_consonant_vowel.dict consonant vowel dict in SM-Dictionaries repo

Add an unsupported language

Please refer to this section of SM-Dictionaries.