Phonemizer: Text to Phones Transcription for Multiple Languages in Python
Journal: The Journal of Open Source Software
Year: 2021

Phones are elementary sounds the speech is made of, on which syllables and words are built.The transcription of texts from their orthographic form into a phonetic alphabet is an important requirement in various applications related to speech and language processing, for instance for text to speech systems.Phonemizer is a Python package addressing precisely this issue: it transcribes a text from its orthographic representation into a phonetic one.The package is user-friendly and exposes a single