Top 8 Phonetic Open-Source Projects

praat

4 1,368 9.4 C++

Praat: Doing Phonetics By Computer

Project mention: Praat: Doing Phonetics by Computer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18

This brings back memories.
I worked my way through some of its source code many years ago during my post-graduate studies and it was very _strange_. I see it is now on GitHub [0].
They used C macros to implement object oriented programming, with symbols like `me` and `my` and `thee` scattered throughout the source code. It seems the code has been converted to C++ (IIRC it used to be in C), but I still see the `my` keyword in there.
They have their own BASIC-like scripting language. The weirdest property for me was that it allowed for whitespace in the identifiers. Just look at the example in [1]: The `Create simple Matrix` is actually a function in the scripting language that constructs a matrix object. The function name corresponds to a menu item and IIRC they used some more preprocessor magic to reuse the same code for the menus on the GUI and the functions in the scripting language.
I don't think you're supposed to write the scripts by hand. Rather it recorded your actions as you worked your way through the GUI and then you could export and modify those recordings as scripts.
They also implemented their own cross platform GUI toolkit rather than using one of the existing cross-platform GUI toolkits, so it works on Windows, Linux (or any X Windows I believe) and MacOS.
[0]: https://github.com/praat/praat

pragmatapro

3 1,341 5.3 Rich Text Format

PragmataPro font is designed to help pros to work better

Project mention: Berkeley Mono Typeface | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-18

One alternative you could consider is narrow fonts like Pragmata[1] (commercial) or Iosevka[2] (gratis, FOSS). Being able to fit more stuff onto you screen side-by-side is what enabled me to get as much into tmux as I am now.
[1] https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
[2] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
allosaurus

2 502 0.0 Python

Allosaurus is a pretrained universal phone recognizer for more than 2000 languages
wikipron

4 288 6.1 Python

Massively multilingual pronunciation mining

Project mention: does anyone know of any phonological transcription APIs for portuguese? | /r/asklinguistics | 2023-04-20

There's wikipron, which scrapes data from Wiktionary.

Cadmium

0 201 0.0 Crystal

Natural Language Processing (NLP) library for Crystal
japanese-pitch-accent-resources

3 97 2.1

Trying to consolidate japanese phonetic, and in particular pitch accent resources into one list
vulgarlang-phonology-sets

3 10 0.0

A collection of additional language phonology settings for use with VulgarLang.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
phonotrainer_test

1 0 0.0 HTML

A test for Phonotrainer's main release. This is only the web version.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-18.