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"""
Transliterating text to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Using International Components for Unicode (ICU)
:See Also:
* `GitHub \
<https://github.com/ovalhub/pyicu>`_
"""
from icu import Transliterator
_ICU_THAI_TO_LATIN = Transliterator.createInstance("Thai-Latin")
[docs]def transliterate(text: str) -> str:
"""
Use ICU (International Components for Unicode) for transliteration
:param str text: Thai text to be transliterated.
:return: A string of Internaitonal Phonetic Alphabets indicating how the text should be pronounced.
"""
return _ICU_THAI_TO_LATIN.transliterate(text)