bootphon/phonemizer: phonemizer-2.2

new features

• New option --list-languages to list the available languages for a given backend from the command line.

• The --sampa option of the espeak backend has been replaced by a new backend espeak-mbrola.

  • The former --sampa option (introduced in phonemizer-2.0) outputs phones that are not standard SAMPA but are adapted to the espeak TTS front-end.

  • On the other hand the espeak-mbrola backend allows espeak to output phones in standard SAMPA (adapted to the mbrola TTS front-end). This backend requires mbrola to be installed, as well as additional mbrola voices to support needed languages. This backend does not support word separation nor punctuation preservation.

bugfixes

• Fixed issues with punctuation processing on some corner cases, see issues #39 and #40.

• Improvments and updates in the documentation (Readme, phonemize --help and Python code).

• Fixed a test when using espeak>=1.50.

• Empty lines are correctly ignored when reading text from a file.