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Welcome to Phonesse!
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A Toolkit for Verbal Sound Patterns!
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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 :ref:`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 :ref:`demos` of some of these tools.


.. figure::  _static/overviews/pics/circle_visual.png
   :align:   center

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.

.. figure::  _static/overviews/pics/circles3.png
   :align:   center






.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Overviews:

   _static/overviews/phonesse.rst
   _static/overviews/slantwise.rst

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Documentation:

   _static/examples/test.rst




Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`