phonemizer-3.3.0

This version depends on python>=3.8 (was >=3.6 in previous versions). Tests now requires pytest>=6.0

• improvements

  • Replaced dependency to deprecated pkg_resources by importlib (requires python>=3.8).
  • Replaced deprecated setup.py by pyproject.toml.

• bug fix

  • espeak backend: words mismatch now works when using custom word separators. See issue #169.

phonemizer-3.2.1

• bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug when trying to restore punctuation on a multiline text.
    See issue #129

phonemizer-3.2.0

• bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug when trying to restore punctuation on very long text.
    See #108

• improvements

  • Improved consistency with the handling of word separators when
    preserving punctuation, and when using a word separator that is
    not a literal space character. See
    #106

• new features

  • Added the option to define punctuation with a regular expression.
    Previously only strings were accepted. See #120

    • In the python API, the punctuation_marks parameter can now be
      passed to phonemize (or a backend constructor) as a re.Pattern
      that defines which characters will be matched as punctuation.
      Passing punctuation_marks as a str will continue to function as
      before, treating each character in the string as a punctuation mark.

    • Added the optional parameter --punctuation_marks_is_regex to the CLI
      interface. When used, the CLI will attempt to compile a re.Pattern
      from the value passed to --punctuation-marks.

phonemizer-3.1.1

ChangeLog

• improvements

  • Preserve empty lines in texts when using --preserve-empty-lines.
    Without this option, empty lines used to be automatically dropped.
    See PR #103

• new features

  • Type hinted most of phonemizer's API. This makes the usage of our API
    a bit clearer, and can be easily leveraged by IDE's and type checkers to
    prevent typing issues.

phonemizer-3.0.1

ChangeLog

• improvements in README after JOSS reviews

• bug fixes

  • The method BaseBackend.phonemize now raises a RuntimeError if the input text is a str instead of a list of of str (was only logging an error message).

  • Preserve punctuation alignement when using --preserve-punctuation, was inserting a space before each punctuation token, see issue #97.

phonemizer-3.0

phonemizer-3.0

breaking change

• Do not remove empty lines from output. For example:

  # this is now
  phonemize(["hello", "!??"]) == ['həloʊ ', '']
  # this was
  phonemize(["hello", "!??"]) == ['həloʊ ']

• Default backend in the phonemize function is now espeak (was festival).

• espeak-mbrola backend now requires espeak>=1.49.

• --espeak-path option renamed as --espeak-libraryand PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH environment variable renamed as PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY.

• --festival-path option renamed as --festival-executable and PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_PATH environment variable renamed as PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_EXECUTABLE.

• The methods backend.phonemize() from the backend classes take only a list of str a input text (was either a str or a list of str).

• The methods backend.version() from the backend classes returns a tuple of int instead of a str.

improvements

• espeak and mbrola backends now rely on the espeak shared library using the ctypes Python module, instead of reliying on the espeak executable through subprocesses. This implies drastic speed improvments, up to 40 times faster.

new features

• New option --prepend-text to prepend the input text to phonemized utterances, so as to have both orthographic and phonemized available at output.

• New option --tie for the espeak backend to display a tie character within multi-letter phonemes. (see issue #74).

• New option --words-mismatch for the espeak backend. This allows to detect when espeak merge consecutive words or drop a word from the orthographic text. Possible actions are to ignore those misatches, to issue a warning for each line where a mismatch is detectd, or to remove those lines from the output.

bugfixes

• phonemizer's logger no more conflicts with other loggers when imported from Python (see PR #61).

phonemizer-2.2.2

phonemizer-2.2.2

• bugfixes

  • Fixed installation from source (bug introduced in 2.2.1, see issue #52).

  • Fixed a bug when trying to restore punctuation on an empty text (see issue #54).

  • Fixed an edge case bug when using custom punctuation marks (see issue #55).

  • Fixed regex issue that causes digits to be considered punctuation (see issue #60).

phonemizer-2.2.1

Changelog for phonemizer-2.2.1

• improvements

  From Python import the phonemize function using from phonemizer import phonemize instead of from phonemizer.phonemize import phonemize. The second import is still available for compatibility.

• bugfixes

  • Fixed a minor bug in utils.chunks.

  • Fixed warnings on language switching for espeak backend when using parallel jobs (see issue #50).

  • Save file in utf-8 explicitly for Windows compat (see issue #43).

  • Fixed build and tests in Dockerfile (see issue #45).

phonemizer-2.2

ChangeLog

• 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.

phonemizer-2.1

ChangeLog for phonemizer-2.1

• new features

  • Possibility to preserve the punctuation (ignored and silently removed by
    default) in the phonemized output with the new option
    --preserve-punctuation from command line (or the equivalent
    preserve-punctuation from Python API). With the punctuation-marks
    option, one can overload the default marls considered as punctuation.

  • It is now possible to specify the path to a custom espeak or
    festival executable (for instance to use a local installation or to test
    different versions). Either specify the PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH
    environment variable, the --espeak-path option from command line or use
    the EspeakBackend.set_espeak_path method from the Python API. Similarly
    for festival use PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_PATH, --festival-path or
    FestivalBackend.set_festival_path.

  • The --sampa option is now available for espeak (was available only for
    espeak-ng).

  • When using espeak with SAMPA output, some SAMPA phones are corrected to
    correspond to the normalized SAMPA alphabet (espeak seems not to respect
    it). The corrections are language specific. A correction file must be placed
    in phonemizer/share/espeak. This have been implemented only for French
    by now.

• bugfixes

  • parses correctly the version of espeak-ng even for dev versions (e.g.
    1.51-dev).

  • fixed an issue with espeak backend, where multiple phone separators can be
    present at the end of a word, see
    #31.

  • added an additional stress symbol - for espeak.