Phonemizer language coverage

dengjen-tts phonemizes text through three dedicated crates under crates/text/ (dengjen-espeak-phonemizer, dengjen-hebrew-phonemizer, dengjen-pinyin-phonemizer) that Piper, Kokoro, and MeloTTS each call directly rather than through a shared Phonemizer trait (see Architecture for why). Language support is therefore a property of which phonemizer a voice manifest selects, not a single project-wide language list.

What’s actually wired up today

Backend Phonemizer Language coverage

Piper

phoneme_type: "espeak" (default)

Whatever espeak-ng voice the manifest’s espeak.voice field names — see the full list below.

Piper

phoneme_type: "text"

None — raw passthrough, for voices already trained on phonemic/symbol text.

Piper

phoneme_type: "hebrew"

Hebrew only (Nakdimon diacritization + IPA).

Piper

phoneme_type: "pinyin"

Mandarin Chinese only.

Kokoro

Hardcoded, not manifest-configurable

English (en-US) only, regardless of voice.

MeloTTS

{"type": "espeak", "voice": "…​"}

English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean.

MeloTTS

{"type": "pinyin", "model_dir": "…​"}

Mandarin Chinese, with real tone extraction (needs the pinyin Cargo feature).

MeloTTS’s pinyin path and Piper’s hebrew/pinyin paths are the only ones with dedicated, tone- or diacritic-aware handling; espeak-backed paths get IPA phonemes only.

espeak-ng’s full language list

Piper’s espeak phoneme type and MeloTTS’s espeak phonemizer both accept any language/locale code espeak-ng itself ships. The list below is extracted directly from dengjen-espeak-rs-sys’s bundled `espeak-ng-data/lang/ (the actual fork this project vendors), not from upstream espeak-ng documentation, so it reflects what’s really available at runtime:

ab, af, am, an, ar, as, az, ba, be, bg, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ca-ba, ca-nw, ca-va, chr, cmn,
cmn-Latn-pinyin, crh, cs, cv, cy, da, de, el, en, en-029, en-GB-scotland, en-GB-x-gbclan,
en-GB-x-gbcwmd, en-GB-x-rp, en-Shaw, en-US, en-US-nyc, eo, es, es-419, et, eu, fa, fa-Latn,
fi, fo, fr, fr-BE, fr-CH, ga, gd, gn, grc, gu, hak, haw, he, hi, hr, ht, hu, hy, hyw, ia, id,
io, is, it, ja, jbo, ka, kaa, kk, kl, kn, ko, kok, ku, ky, la, lb, lfn, lt, ltg, lv, mi, mk,
ml, mn, mr, ms, mt, mto, my, nb, nci, ne, nl, nog, om, or, pa, pap, piqd, pl, ps, pt, pt-BR,
py, qdb, qu, quc, qya, ro, ru, ru-cl, ru-LV, rup, sd, shn, si, sjn, sk, sl, smj, sq, sr, sv,
sw, ta, te, th, ti, tk, tn, tr, tt, ug, uk, ur, uz, vi, vi-VN-x-central, vi-VN-x-south, xex,
yue, yue-Latn-jyutping

This is espeak-ng’s own capability, not a dengjen-tts guarantee. dengjen-tts’s own test suite only exercises English voices end-to-end; any other language on this list will phonemize (espeak-ng supports it), but whether a given Piper or MeloTTS ONNX voice — trained on some specific language’s phoneme set — actually produces intelligible speech from that phonemization is untested by this project and depends entirely on the voice model itself.

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