phonetic spelling in Python and Java [closed]

Question

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?

Answer 1

Check out soundex

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.