Tibetan phonetics tools

Tibetan pronunciation is difficult to approximate. There are several different systems for phonetizing Tibetan according to target language and phonetics system. The most comprehensive tool is the online-converter by Roger Espel:

Online tool to generate phonetics from Tibetan

This tool automatically determines the pronunciation of a given Tibetan Unicode text that is accessible for speakers of English, German, French, Spanish, or Spanish according to the conventions of THL, LotsawaHouse, Rigpa, Padmakara or Lhasey Lotsawa:

• Tibetan Unicode to phonetics converter that gives the pronunciation for a passage of Tibetan Unicode text

Python programming

Esukhia has ongoing Tibetan NLP projects that comprise phonetics modules. However they seem to be in an early stage of development:

• Esukhia/pybo

• Esukhia/bophono

References

• Perl source-code by Roger Espel