bootphon / phonemizer

Simple text to phones converter for multiple languages
https://bootphon.github.io/phonemizer/
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Use espeak phone X-SAMPA to language-specific SAMPA foldings. #105

Open hadware opened 2 years ago

hadware commented 2 years ago

Currently, to get the language-specific SAMPA form of each phoneme, a working (and espeak-friendly) installation of mbrola is required. This is problematic for several reasons:

The foldings are all here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/tree/master/phsource/mbrola

hadware commented 2 years ago

Additional note: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/mbrola.md#2-add-mbrola-phoneme-translation-file