readme: ---
  language: 
  - en
  tags:
  - Pronunciation Generation
  - Text Normalization
  ---
  
  # TTS Frontend
  
  Here you can find addons compatible with
  [balacoon_frontend](https://pypi.fury.io/balacoon/) python package.
  Learn how to use TTS frontend from Balacoon at https://balacoon.com/use/.
  
  List of available addons:
  
  - <mark>en_us_frontend.addon</mark> - FST-based pronunciation generation
    combined with FST-based text normalization. Former is based on
    [CMUdict](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict) and 
    [Phonetisaurus](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict).
    Latter is hand-crafted rules for [Sparrowhawk](https://github.com/google/sparrowhawk/).
    For now addon is missing contextual pronunciation generation.
    