Welcome to Phonesse!

A Toolkit for Verbal Sound Patterns!

Processing sound segments from text should be simple and accessible. There are a lot of tools for dealing with words (lexical items), but few tools for handling the underlying sounds of those words.

The Phonesse toolkit provides functions to:

  • Extract sound segments from text
  • Visualize sound segments
  • Generate sets of words with customizable sound similarities
  • Analyze sound patterns (More coming soon)

You can also explore live web Live Demos of some of these tools.

_images/circle_visual.png

Although language sounds are something we usually hear, many patterns can be revealed by visualizing sound segments. Phonesse lets you visualize color-coded language sounds in MIDI and right or left-aligned grids. There are also tools for describing the stability of underlying sound patterns in sets of words or phrases.

_images/circles3.png

Indices and tables