not able to get phonemes for Hindi Sentence (using the eSpeak-ng)

[RamakrishnaChaitanya]

Hi, I'm using eSpeak-ng of version 1.52.0 on my windows 10 system. I'm trying to execute the espeak_wrapper.py to check the outputs of different phonemizers. I'm not able to get the phonemes i.e., just getting empty strings "" on the output console for a Hindi sentence (language="hi"), however, i was able to get the phonemes when i use an English sentence with language as "en-us".

Input:

    e = ESpeak(language="en-us", keep_puncs=True)
    print("`" + e.phonemize("hello how are you today?") + "`")

    e = ESpeak(language="hi", keep_puncs=True)
    print("`" + e.phonemize("हम यह कुछ उदाहरण उपयोग करके करेंगे") + "`")

Obtained output:

`h|ə|l|ˈoʊ h|ˌaʊ ɑːɹ j|uː t|ə|d|ˈeɪ?`
``

In the supported languages, it seems like Hindi language is also being supported -

{'af': 'afrikaans-mbrola-1', 'am': 'Amharic', 'an': 'Aragonese', 'ar': 'Arabic', 'as': 'Assamese', 'az': 'Azerbaijani', 'ba': 'Bashkir', 'be': 'Belarusian', 'bg': 'Bulgarian', 'bn': 'Bengali', 'bpy': 'Bishnupriya_Manipuri', 'bs': 'Bosnian', 'ca': 'Catalan', 'chr-US-Qaaa-x-west': 'Cherokee_', 'cmn': 'Chinese_(Mandarin,_latin_as_English)', 'cmn-latn-pinyin': 'Chinese_(Mandarin,_latin_as_Pinyin)', 'cs': 'Czech', 'cv': 'Chuvash', 'cy': 'Welsh', 'da': 'Danish', 'de': 'german-mbrola-8', 'el': 'greek-mbrola-1', 'en': 'en-swedish', 'en-029': 'English_(Caribbean)', 'en-gb': 'English_(Great_Britain)', 'en-gb-scotland': 'English_(Scotland)', 'en-gb-x-gbclan': 'English_(Lancaster)', 'en-gb-x-gbcwmd': 'English_(West_Midlands)', 'en-gb-x-rp': 'English_(Received_Pronunciation)', 'en-uk': 'english-mb-en1', 'en-us': 'us-mbrola-3', 'en-us-nyc': 'English_(America,_New_York_City)', 'eo': 'Esperanto', 'es': 'Spanish_(Spain)', 'es-419': 'Spanish_(Latin_America)', 'es-es': 'spanish-mbrola-2', 'es-mx': 'mexican-mbrola-2', 'es-vz': 'venezuala-mbrola-1', 'et': 'estonian-mbrola-1', 'eu': 'Basque', 'fa': 'persian-mb-ir1', 'fa-latn': 'Persian_(Pinglish)', 'fi': 'Finnish', 'fo': 'Faroese', 'fr': 'french-mbrola-7', 'fr-be': 'french-mbrola-5', 'fr-ca': 'fr-canadian-mbrola-2', 'fr-ch': 'French_(Switzerland)', 'fr-fr': 'french-mbrola-6', 'ga': 'Gaelic_(Irish)', 'gd': 'Gaelic_(Scottish)', 'gn': 'Guarani', 'grc': 'german-mbrola-6', 'gu': 'Gujarati', 'hak': 'Hakka_Chinese', 'haw': 'Hawaiian', 'he': 'hebrew-mbrola-2', 'hi': 'Hindi', 'hr': 'croatian-mbrola-1', 'ht': 'Haitian_Creole', 'hu': 'hungarian-mbrola-1', 'hy': 'Armenian_(East_Armenia)', 'hyw': 'Armenian_(West_Armenia)', 'ia': 'Interlingua', 'id': 'indonesian-mbrola-1', 'io': 'Ido', 'is': 'icelandic-mbrola-1', 'it': 'italian-mbrola-2', 'ja': 'Japanese', 'jbo': 'Lojban', 'ka': 'Georgian', 'kk': 'Kazakh', 'kl': 'Greenlandic', 'kn': 'Kannada', 'ko': 'Korean', 'kok': 'Konkani', 'ku': 'Kurdish', 'ky': 'Kyrgyz', 'la': 'latin-mbrola-1', 'lb': 'Luxembourgish', 'lfn': 'Lingua_Franca_Nova', 'lt': 'lithuanian-mbrola-2', 'ltg': 'Latgalian', 'lv': 'Latvian', 'mi': 'maori-mbrola-1', 'mk': 'Macedonian', 'ml': 'Malayalam', 'mr': 'Marathi', 'ms': 'Malay', 'mt': 'Maltese', 'my': 'Myanmar_(Burmese)', 'nb': 'Norwegian_Bokmål', 'nci': 'Nahuatl_(Classical)', 'ne': 'Nepali', 'nl': 'dutch-mbrola-3', 'nog': 'Nogai', 'om': 'Oromo', 'or': 'Oriya', 'pa': 'Punjabi', 'pap': 'Papiamento', 'piqd': 'Klingon', 'pl': 'polish-mbrola-1', 'pt': 'Portuguese_(Portugal)', 'pt-br': 'brazil-mbrola-4', 'pt-pt': 'portugal-mbrola-1', 'py': 'Pyash', 'qdb': 'Lang_Belta', 'qu': 'Quechua', 'quc': "K'iche'", 'qya': 'Quenya', 'ro': 'romanian-mbrola-1', 'ru': 'Russian', 'ru-lv': 'Russian_(Latvia)', 'sd': 'Sindhi', 'shn': 'Shan_(Tai_Yai)', 'si': 'Sinhala', 'sjn': 'Sindarin', 'sk': 'Slovak', 'sl': 'Slovenian', 'smj': 'Lule_Saami', 'sq': 'Albanian', 'sr': 'Serbian', 'sv': 'swedish-mbrola-2', 'sw': 'Swahili', 'ta': 'Tamil', 'te': 'telugu-mbrola-1', 'th': 'Thai', 'tk': 'Turkmen', 'tn': 'Setswana', 'tr': 'turkish-mbrola-1', 'tt': 'Tatar', 'ug': 'Uyghur', 'uk': 'Ukrainian', 'ur': 'Urdu', 'uz': 'Uzbek', 'vi': 'Vietnamese_(Northern)', 'vi-vn-x-central': 'Vietnamese_(Central)', 'vi-vn-x-south': 'Vietnamese_(Southern)', 'yue': 'Chinese_(Cantonese,_latin_as_Jyutping)', 'zh': 'chinese-mb-cn1'}

[eginhard]

It is an issue with character encodings on Windows (#3761) and should be fixed in our fork (available via pip install coqui-tts). This repo is not maintained anymore.