alkove.Lex

class Lex(models: Models)

Text to phonemes in fr, en, es, pt, it, ca, ro: Lex’s beam search, word by word.

Methods

phonemize()

phonemize(text: Union[str, Sequence[str]], lang: str) -> list

The likeliest pronunciations first, [{ipa, p}]; a list of them for a list of texts.

compile()

compile(
    text: str,
    lang: Union[str, Sequence[str]],
    *,
    chain: Optional[str] = None,
) -> Word

compile with this Lex: a typed word in one or more of its languages.

distance()

Lex.distance(a: str, b: str) -> float

0 = the same sound; a substitution between interchangeable phonemes costs half.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
langs	tuple	The languages Lex reads.
inventory	tuple	Spot’s 58 phonemes in IPA: the symbols a word between slashes may use (stress and length marks are ignored).