Source code for tamil.txt2ipa.unicode2ipa

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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# (C) 2014 Arulalan.T <[email protected]>                                  #
# Date : 02.08.2014                                                          #
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from .transliteration import tam2lat
from .ipaconvert import ipa
from .ipaconvert import broad as broad_ipa

def txt2ipa(text, broad=True):
    
    lat = tam2lat(text)
    lat = " " + lat + " "
    ipa_text = ipa(lat)
    
    # make memory free 
    del lat 
    
    if broad: ipa_text = broad_ipa(ipa_text)
    
    return ipa_text
# end of def txt2ipa(text, broad=True):