Epitran is a multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme system with support for many languages. It converts orthographic strings (strings written in the conventional writing system) into IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) strings. It has been used by many teams for many purposes and is in continuous development. Want support for your favorite language? Let me know!

If you use Epitran in published work, or in other research, please use the following citation:

David R. Mortensen, Siddharth Dalmia, and Patrick Littell. 2018. Epitran: Precision G2P for many languages. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Paris, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

@InProceedings{Mortensen-et-al:2018,
  author = {Mortensen, David R.  and Dalmia, Siddharth and Littell, Patrick},
  title = {Epitran: Precision {G2P} for Many Languages},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {May},
  date = {7--12},
  location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and H\'el\`ene Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  address = {Paris, France},
  isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9},
  language = {english}
  }