Misaki is a G2P engine designed for Kokoro models.

Hosted demo: https://hf.co/spaces/hexgrad/Misaki-G2P

You can run this in one cell on Google Colab:

!pip install -q "misaki[en]"

from misaki import en

g2p = en.G2P(trf=False, british=False, fallback=None) # no transformer, American English

text = '[Misaki](/misˈɑki/) is a G2P engine designed for [Kokoro](/kˈOkəɹO/) models.'

phonemes, tokens = g2p(text)

print(phonemes) # misˈɑki ɪz ə ʤˈitəpˈi ˈɛnʤən dəzˈInd fɔɹ kˈOkəɹO mˈɑdᵊlz.

To fallback to espeak:

# Installing espeak varies across platforms, this silent install works on Colab:
!apt-get -qq -y install espeak-ng > /dev/null 2>&1

!pip install -q "misaki[en]" phonemizer-fork

from misaki import en, espeak

fallback = espeak.EspeakFallback(british=False) # en-us

g2p = en.G2P(trf=False, british=False, fallback=fallback) # no transformer, American English

text = 'Now outofdictionary words are handled by espeak.'

phonemes, tokens = g2p(text)

print(phonemes) # nˈW Wɾɑfdˈɪkʃənˌɛɹi wˈɜɹdz ɑɹ hˈændəld bI ˈispik.

• Data: Compress data (no need for indented json) and eliminate redundancy between gold and silver dictionaries.
• Fallbacks: Train seq2seq fallback models on dictionaries using this notebook.
• Homographs: Escalate hard words like axes bass bow lead tear wind using BERT contextual word embeddings (CWEs) and logistic regression (LR) models (nn.Linear followed by sigmoid) as described in this paper. Assuming trf=True, BERT CWEs can be accessed via doc._.trf_data, see en.py#L479. Per-word LR models can be trained on WikipediaHomographData, llama-hd-dataset, and LLM-generated data.
• More languages: Add ko.py, ja.py, zh.py.
• Per-language pip installs

• https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
• https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/num2words
• https://github.com/hexgrad/misaki/blob/main/EN_PHONES.md

• https://github.com/polm/cutlet
• https://github.com/polm/fugashi
• https://github.com/ikegami-yukino/jaconv
• https://github.com/studio-ousia/mojimoji

• https://github.com/5Hyeons/StyleTTS2/tree/vocos/g2pK/g2pkc
• https://github.com/tenebo/g2pk2

• https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech/tree/develop/paddlespeech/t2s/frontend
• https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba
• https://github.com/mozillazg/python-pinyin
• https://github.com/stefantaubert/pinyin-to-ipa

• https://github.com/v-nhandt21/Viphoneme

• 🛠️ Misaki builds on top of many excellent G2P projects linked above.
• 🌐 Thank you to all native speakers who advised and contributed G2P in many languages.
• 👾 Kokoro Discord server: https://discord.gg/QuGxSWBfQy
• 🌸 Misaki is a Japanese name and a character in the Terminator franchise along with Kokoro.