A tool to get the katakana reading of an alphabetical string.

Python 3 or higher is required.

python3 -m pip install -U alkana

$ git clone https://github.com/cod-sushi/alkana.py
$ cd alkana.py
$ python3 -m pip install -U .

import alkana

print(alkana.get_kana("Hello"))
print(alkana.get_kana("World"))
print(alkana.get_kana("abcdefg"))

Output of above example is:

ハロー
ワールド
None

If the reading is not exist, Returns None.

$ alkana hello
ハロー
$ alkana world
ワールド
$ alkana abcdefg

If the reading is not exist, there is no output.

Alkana can extend the dictionary.

sample.csv

hogehoge,ホゲホゲ
piyopiyo,ピヨピヨ
...

import alkana
alkana.add_external_data('./sample.csv')

print(alkana.get_kana('hogehoge'))  # ホゲホゲ

Alphabetical word - katakana dictionary's data is from bep-eng.dic.

Bilingual Emacspeak Project (c) 1999-2002 Bilingual Emacspeak Project

GPLv2