PhonemeZA

South African pronunciation dictionary, powered by a from-scratch attention seq2seq model

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reference pronunciation, espeak-ng — synthesized from the spelling by espeak's own rules, not from the model's phonemes

Attention heatmap

Each cell shows how strongly the model attended to an input letter (column) while producing an output phoneme (row) — darker means more attention.

Pronunciation data: NCHLT-inlang Pronunciation Dictionaries (North-West University, via SADiLaR, CC BY 3.0). Code: github.com/CubicMonk19/phonemeza