phonetic spelling in Python and Java

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I am trying to build a system that accepts text and outputs the phonetic spelling of the words of this text. Any ideas on what libraries can be used in Python and Java?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '11 at 22:12

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Check out soundex

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

answered Nov 28 '11 at 22:12

Nickle

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Great answer(never knew about this)! I did a search and found this question that has an example of a python implementation of soundex: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562438/could-use-some-help-with-this-soundex-coding – Lostsoul Nov 28 '11 at 22:32
I am looking more to obtaining the corresponding phonetic alphabet in text form. – pacodelumberg Nov 30 '11 at 14:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '11 at 12:18

I came across an old python package Raze. It includes a phonetic module with a translation api:

>>> pd = PhoneticDictionary()
>>> pd.spell('Hello world')
... hotel-echo-lima-lima-oscar whiskey-oscar-romeo-lima-delta

It hasn't been updated in a while, but it still works.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '11 at 18:29

Are you looking for something akin to the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) or some other phonetic output? If ARPAbet is ok, there is the CMU pronouncing dictionary (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict). That'll give the ARPAbet rendering of most words in English. I've written some code that converts the ARPAbet spelling to IPA and post to github if you'd like.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 28 '13 at 06:22

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Just try this : http://texttophonetic.appspot.com/

This tool can help you translate english to IPA (to phonetic). You might want to write some code to get the result then save to your database.

answered Oct 28 '13 at 06:22

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phonetic spelling in Python and Java

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