espeak-ng version number and phone separator error

[cainesap]

Bonjour Mathieu,

A couple of issues after I installed the current version of phonemizer. One is a simple fix, the other is a problem I don't understand:

1, espeak-ng is now version 1.49.3, therefore line 175 in backend.py needs to be updated.

2, I tried to use a space character as phone separator but see the following error:

echo "hello world" | phonemize -l en-us --sep=' '
fatal error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '--sep= '

I'm not sure why this happens so at the moment used a hack workaround in line 248, also not specifying a separator in the command line:

w = w.replace('_', ' ')

It's working as I want it to now, so this is not an urgent matter. Thanks for sharing this great resource!
Andrew

[mmmaat]

Hi Andrew, thanks for reporting!

1. Solved
2. You must use -p/--phone-separator, not --sep:

$ echo "hello world" | phonemize -l en-us -p ' ' -w ''
h ə l oʊ w ɜː l d 

Best,
Mathieu

[cainesap]

1, Great, thanks Mathieu!
2, sorry, I did mean that I used p ' ', ah but I see, I must use -w '' as well (i.e. i should read the error message :))