ancient-greek-modern-accents

Many native Modern Greek speakers will read and pronounce Ancient Greek texts (whether aloud or in their head) using modern pronunciation of the words.

Change Text to Modern Accents

The "ancient_text_to_modern_pronunciation" function in "ancient_to_modern.py" takes a text in polytonic Greek and returns it rendered in modern monotonic orthography. It could be used to either simplify a text for one's own reading, or to take an Ancient Greek text and turn it into a format that a text-to-speech software could speak according to Modern Greek pronunciation.

Example Usage

The function ancient_text_to_modern_pronunciation, when fed the first two sentences of Epictetus' Enchiridion:

Τῶν ὄντων τὰ μέν ἐστιν ἐφ' ἡμῖν, τὰ δὲ οὐκ ἐφ' ἡμῖν. ἐφ' ἡμῖν μὲν ὑπόληψις, ὁρμή, ὄρεξις, ἔκκλισις καὶ ἑνὶ λόγῳ ὅσα ἡμέτερα ἔργα: οὐκ ἐφ' ἡμῖν δὲ τὸ σῶμα, ἡ κτῆσις, δόξαι, ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἑνὶ λόγῳ ὅσα οὐχ ἡμέτερα ἔργα.

Will output the following:

Των όντων τα μεν εστιν εφ' ημίν, τα δε ουκ εφ' ημίν. εφ' ημίν μεν υπόληψις, ορμή, όρεξις, έκκλισις και ενί λόγω όσα ημέτερα έργα: ουκ εφ' ημίν δε το σώμα, η κτήσις, δόξαι, αρχαί και ενί λόγω όσα ουχ ημέτερα έργα.

Create Audio from Ancient Text

The "text_to_speech" function in "tts.py" takes a text in polytonic Greek and uses text-to-speech software to convert it into audio. It optionally takes in Azure credentials to use Azure's Speech Service, and otherwise it uses gTTS (https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS).