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Command-line interface and Python library to transcribe pinyin to IPA. The tones are attached to the vowel of the syllable.

https://github.com/stefantaubert/pinyin-to-ipa

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bopomofo chinese cyrillic international-phonetic-alphabet linguistics phonetics pinyin speech-recognition speech-synthesis transcription tts zhuyin
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Command-line interface and Python library to transcribe pinyin to IPA. The tones are attached to the vowel of the syllable.

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pinyin-to-ipa

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A Python library, web application, and command-line tool for transcribing Pinyin to IPA.
Tone markers are attached to the vowel of each syllable.

Getting started

Installation

sh pip install pinyin-to-ipa[app] --user

Usage as library

```py from pinyintoipa import pinyintoipa

print(pinyintoipa("hang4"))

OrderedSet([('x', 'a˥˩', 'ŋ'), ('h', 'a˥˩', 'ŋ')])

print(pinyintoipa("ng"))

OrderedSet([('ŋ',)])

```

Usage as web app

Start the web app from the command-line:

sh $ pinyin-to-ipa-app

Or visit 🤗 Hugging Face for a live demo.

Screenshot Hugging Face

Usage as CLI

sh $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli

```txt usage: pinyin-to-ipa-cli [-h] [-v] [--sep SEP] [--first] PINYIN

Command-line interface (CLI) to transcribe pinyin to IPA.

positional arguments: PINYIN pinyin

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -v, --version show program's version number and exit --sep SEP separator between phonemes (default: ) --first return only first result (default: False) ```

Example

sh $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang1" pʰa˥ŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang2" pʰa˧˥ŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang3" pʰa˧˩˧ŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang4" pʰa˥˩ŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang5" pʰaŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang" pʰaŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "hàng" xa˥˩ŋ ha˥˩ŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "hàng" --first xa˥˩ŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "hng" hŋ $ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "test" No IPA transcription available!

Phoneme set

Vowels

txt a ɛ e ə ɚ ɤ i o ɔ u ʊ y

Diphthongs

txt ai̯ au̯ aɚ̯¹ ei̯ ou̯

¹ These phonemes are not included if only the first transcription is used.

Consonants

txt f h¹ j k kʰ l m n ŋ p pʰ ɹ̩² ɻ² ɻ̩² s ʂ t tʰ ts tsʰ tɕ tɕʰ ʈʂ ʈʂʰ w x ɕ ɥ z̩¹² ʐ¹² ʐ̩¹²

² These consonants contain also tones.

Tones

Vowels and diphthongs contain one of these tones:

txt ˥ (first tone) ˧˥ (second tone) ˧˩˧ (third tone) ˥˩ (fourth tone) (none)

References

Acknowledgments

  • pypinyin
  • Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 416228727 – CRC 1410

Citation

If you want to cite this repo, you can use this BibTeX-entry generated by GitHub (see About => Cite this repository).

txt Taubert, S. (2025). pinyin-to-ipa (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15229718

Owner

  • Name: Stefan Taubert
  • Login: stefantaubert
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  • Location: Chemnitz, Germany
  • Company: Chemnitz University of Technology

Currently I am working on my PhD about the topic of speech synthesis at Chemnitz University of Technology.

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version: 1.0.0
date-released: 2025-04-16
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A Python library, web application, and command-line tool for transcribing Pinyin to IPA. Tone markers are attached to the vowel of each syllable.

  • Homepage: https://github.com/stefantaubert/pinyin-to-ipa
  • Documentation: https://pinyin-to-ipa.readthedocs.io/
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