Arabic language support

[abd-mhainy]

in this amazing library you are depending on espeak-ng and in thats library support Arabic language culd you please add this feature to your library

[mmmaat]

Hi, if you have installed espeak-ng Arabic is already available. To make sure of that try the following commands:

$ phonemize --version
phonemizer-1.0
available backends: festival-2.5.0, espeak-ng-1.49.2, segments-2.0.1

And

$ phonemize --help | grep Arabic
	ar	->	Arabic

[abd-mhainy]

thanks for your reply
how can i install espeak-ng cause phonemize --version show only those backends
festival-2.5.0, espeak-1.48.03, segments-2.0.1

[mmmaat]

Follow instructions here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/#linux-mac-bsd

[mmmaat]

Normally, the installation of espeak-ng will override the standard espeak.

[abd-mhainy]

do i need to clone the repository and if i have to where do i have to clone it is there a certain path or it dosent matter

[mmmaat]

Indeed you have to clone it (whatever the place, it will be installed as /usr/local/bin/espeak-ng), configure, compile and install it. Something like:

git clone https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng.git
cd espeak-ng
./configure
make
make install

[abd-mhainy]

thanks thats worked and now i can see arabic between the supported languages

[mmmaat]

Great ! Have fun :)

[abd-mhainy]

now it is giving:
fatal error: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128)

when i wrote the command as:
echo "السلام عليكم" | phonemize -l ar

[mmmaat]

I got that using python3:

$ echo "السلام عليكم" | phonemize -l ar
ʔassalaam ʕaliijkum 

I guess you are using python2 (have a python --version to make sure). I'm trying to find a fix. By now you can try to install it with python3. Just have a python3 setup.py install.

[mmmaat]

Ok I fixed it in that commit: 532f9d2. Should be working both in python2 and python3 now. Thanks for reporting that!

[abd-mhainy]

thanks a lot
i will pull the last version

[abd-mhainy]

i made a pull but it is giving the same error
my python version is 2.7

[abd-mhainy]

i think that i have to build again right

[abd-mhainy]

upgraded to python 3 and the problem has been solved
thanks a lot for your help

[mmmaat]

Yes on python2 you have to pull AND to python setup.py install again.