phones is a python library for the easy handling of phones in the International Phonetic Alphabet. These IPA phones can be useful because they can describe how words are pronounced in most languages.

• Extract numeric feature vectors from phones.
• Map phones from one language to another by finding the closest phones.
• Convert between ARPABET, X-SAMPA/SAMPA and IPA notation.
• Compute phone distances.
• Do phone arithmetic on a phone and phone-feature level.
• Visualise phones and their distances when installing phones[plots].

For the core libary:

pip install phones

For plotting:

pip install phones[plots]