phones is a python library for the easy handling of phones in the International Phonetic Alphabet. These IPA phones can be useful because they can describe how words are pronounced in most languages.
- Extract numeric feature vectors from phones.
- Map phones from one language to another by finding the closest phones.
- Convert between ARPABET, X-SAMPA/SAMPA and IPA notation.
- Compute phone distances.
- Do phone arithmetic on a phone and phone-feature level.
- Visualise phones and their distances when installing
phones[plots].
For the core libary:
pip install phonesFor plotting:
pip install phones[plots]