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Create English word to IPA phonetics database

This is a tool to create a pickle database (https://pythonhosted.org/pickleDB/) from CMU-IPA Dictionary.

The pickle database has key-value pairs of English words and phonetic transcriptions. A single word may have multiple transcriptions. For this reason, values are arrays.

Intallation

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Run

The code assumus the CMU-IPA Dictionary is in this top directory as CMU.in.IPA.txt. The pickle database name can be given. If none is given, the default name is cmu_ipa.pickle.

$ ./createdb.py -h
usage: createdb.py [-h] [-d DBNAME]

Creates picledb from CMU IPA dict

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DBNAME, --dbname DBNAME
                        pickledb file. if not given, default name will be used

CMU-IPA Dictionary

The dictionary is from http://people.umass.edu/nconstan/CMU-IPA/. The dictionary has around 130,000 words and those American phonetic transcription.