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language: 
- en
tags:
- Pronunciation Generation
- Text Normalization
---

# TTS Frontend

Here you can find addons compatible with
[balacoon_frontend](https://pypi.fury.io/balacoon/) python package.
Learn how to use TTS frontend from Balacoon at https://balacoon.com/use/.

List of available addons:

- <mark>en_us_frontend.addon</mark> - FST-based pronunciation generation
  combined with FST-based text normalization. Former is based on
  [CMUdict](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict) and 
  [Phonetisaurus](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict).
  Latter is hand-crafted rules for [Sparrowhawk](https://github.com/google/sparrowhawk/).
  For now addon is missing contextual pronunciation generation.