Changelog

Version numbers follow semantic versioning.

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 issue #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 issue #106.

• new features

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

phonemizer-2.0.1

• bugfixes

  • keep-flags was not the default argument for language_switch in the class EspeakBackend.

  • fixed an issue with punctuation processing in the espeak backend, see #26

• improvements

  • log a warning if using python2.

phonemizer-2.0

• incompatible change

  Starting with phonemizer-2.0 only python3 is supported. Compatibility with python2 is no more ensured nor tested. https://pythonclock.org.

• bugfixes

  • new --language-switch option to use with espeak backend to deals with language switching on phonemized output. In previous version there was a bug in detection of the language switching flags (sometimes removed, sometimes not). Now you can choose to keep the flags, to remove them, or to delete the whole utterance.

  • bugfix in a test with espeak>=1.49.3.

  • bugfix using NamedTemporaryFile on windows, see #21.

  • bugfix when calling festival or espeak subprocesses on Windows, see #17.

  • bugfix in detecting recent versions of espeak-ng, see #18.

  • bugfix when using utf8 input on espeak backend (python2), see #19.

• new features and improvements

  • new --sampa option to output phonemes in SAMPA alphabet instead of IPA, available for espeak-ng only.

  • new --with-stress option to use with espeak backend to not remove the stresses on phonemized output. For instance:

    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize
    həloʊ wɜːld
    $ echo "hello world" | phonemize --with-stress
    həlˈoʊ wˈɜːld
    

  • improved logging: by default only warnings are displayed, use the new --quiet option to inhibate all log messages or --verbose to see all of them. Log messages now display level name (debug/info/warning).

  • improved code organization:

    • backends are now implemented in the backend submodule as separated source files.

    • improved version string (displays uninstalled backends, moved outside of main for use from Python).

    • improved logger implemented in its own module so as a call to phonemizer from CLI or API yields the same log messages.

phonemizer-1.0

• incompabile changes

  The following changes break the compatibility with previous versions of phonemizer (0.X.Y):

  • command-line phonemize program: new --backend   <espeak|festival|segments> option, default language is now espeak en-us (was festival en-us),

  • it is now illegal to have the same separator at different levels (for instance a space for both word and phone),

  • from Python, must import the phonemize function as from   phonemizer.phonemize import phonemize, was from phonemizer   import phonemize.

• New backend segments for phonemization based on grapheme-to-phoneme mappings.

• Major refactoring of the backends implementation and separators (as Python classes).

• Input to phonemizer now supports utf8.

• Better handling of errors (display of a meaningful message).

• Fixed a bug in fetching espeak version on macos, see #14.

phonemizer-0.3.3

• Fix a bug introduced in phonemizer-0.3.2 (apostrophes in festival backend). See #12.

phonemizer-0.3.2

• Continuous integration with tracis-ci.

• Support for docker.

• Better support for different versions of espeak/festival.

• Minor bugfixes and improved tests.

phonemizer-0.3.1

• New espeak or espeak-ng backend with more than 100 languages.

• Support for Python 2.7 and 3.5.

• Integration with zenodo for citation.

• Various bugfixes and minor improvments.

phonemizer-0.2

• First public release.

• Support for festival backend, American English only.