New IPA phonemizer engine - Goruut.

[neurlang]

Hello I've made a new IPA phonemizer engine, in golang. It is available online at hashtron.cloud or self-hosted under a MIT license. github

What works:

Supported Languages

• English
• Spanish
• German
• Arabic
• Czech
• Slovak

Looking for more languages to add!

Target languages

• IPA
• Espeak
• Antvaset.com

What doesn't work:

• Currently dates, times, or anything with numbers doesn't work (fix planned)
• Slashes, dashes etc or words separated by anything other than spaces.
• More punctuation needs to be trimmed.

Feedback welcomed.

[neurlang]

goruut phonemizer

Supported languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Farsi, Luxembourgish, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Czech, Slovak

Planned languages

Swahili, Japanese

Looking for more languages to add!

Try it online

https://www.hashtron.cloud/

[komainuone]

Hello,
how does the new IPA phonemizer engine work? Is this documented anywhere? Can we add new languages easily?
Thank you.

[neurlang]

First of all, thank you for the good questions.

The IPA phonemizer searches the word's longest prefix match in the language's grammar. Once a match is identified, the correct pronunciation is selected by a hashtron machine learning model. The process is then repeated for the remaining phones in the word. The performance is on the order of milliseconds for the whole sentence.

Adding a new language has been documented, the dict folder now does have a readme of how to add a new language to goruut. Sharing a dataset with the community is fully optional.