rhdunn/cainteoir-engine — Issue #16: support converting between different phoneme transcription schemes
Author: rhdunn
Created: 2011-11-23 20:32:52+00:00
State: open
Labels: roadmap, tts

There are various transcription schemes available for phonetic transcription:
* IPA;
* Kirshenbaum/ASCII-IPA;
* SAMPA-;
* X-SAMPA;
* eSpeak;
* ...

The Cainteoir engine should expose functionality for converting one transcription scheme to another (buffer => buffer).

There can also be a simple command-line tool (e.g. `cat transcription.ipa | convert-phonemes --from ipa --to espeak`) that interfaces with this API (useful for tests using the existing file-driven tests, e.g. tests/transcriptions.py).