Arabic Phonetiser

Introduction

This package is a Python library for phonetising Arabic text, with a focus on dialects like the Iraqi dialect. It is a fork of Nawar Halabi's Arabic-Phonetiser, but differs in that it is simplified and includes characters commonly used in Arabic dialects.

Features

• Simplified Phonetisation: The phonetisation process has been simplified.

• Support for Additional Arabic Characters: This package extends the standard Arabic character set to include characters that are specific to various Arabic dialects, such as the Iraqi dialect. These additional characters are:

  • Buckwalter: u'C', Arabic Script: 'چ'
  • Buckwalter: u'G', Arabic Script: 'گ'
  • Buckwalter: u'P', Arabic Script: 'پ'
  • Buckwalter: u'V', Arabic Script: 'ڤ'
  • Buckwalter: u'ı', Arabic Script: 'ـ', known as Taweel, used here as a vowel. Pronunciation is similar to 'ı' in Turkish.
  • Buckwalter: u'L', Arabic Script: 'ڵ'
  • Buckwalter: u'O', Arabic Script: 'ۆ'
  • Buckwalter: u'e', Arabic Script: 'ێ'

• Utilizes the arabic-buckwalter-transliteration package for supporting these new characters.

Installation

pip install arabic-phonetiser

Usage

Here is a simple example:

import arabic_phonetiser

arabic_text = "أگُلّـچْ يَبـنْتي وأَسَمْعـچْ يَچَنْتي"
phon_text = arabic_phonetiser.arabic_to_phonemes(arabic_text)
print(phon_text)

Output:

< a G u0 ll ı C + y a b ı n t ii0 + uu0 < a s a m E ı C + y a C a n t ii0

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The original work is by Nawar Halabi. For the full license text, please see the LICENSE file in the repository.

Acknowledgements

This work is a fork of Nawar Halabi's Arabic-Phonetiser. Special thanks to Nawar Halabi for the original work.