Song Lyrics Phoneme Swap
09 May 2020
Given a line of a famous song:
"Fly me to the moon"
We can find the phonemes for the words with CMUdict :
['F L AY1', 'M IY1', 'T UW1', 'DH AH0', 'M UW1 N']
Define some new word boundaries (in this case merging two words into one, however more combos are possible):
['F L AY1', 'M IY1 T UW1', 'DH AH0', 'M UW1 N']
Replace some of the phonemes with regex wildcards…
['F .{1,3} .{1,3}', '.{1,3} .{1,3} V Y UW1', 'T UW1', 'M .{1,3} N']
…then search for new words that match the pattern:
['F AH1 N D', 'R IY2 V Y UW1', 'T UW1', 'M EY1 N']
"Fund review to main"
(it can take awhile to find a combo of word boundaries and wildcards that works)
And there you go, the line has had some of its phonemes swapped. To continue the fun, we can do some more lines from the song:
Let me play among the stars
['L EH1 T', 'M IY1', 'P L EY1', 'AH0 M AH1 NG', 'DH AH0', 'S T AA1 R Z']
letter multiple trademarks
['L EH1 T ER0', 'M AH1 L T AH0 P AH0 L', 'T R EY1 D M AA2 R K S']
And let me see
['AH0 N D', 'L EH1 T', 'M IY1', 'S IY1']
and hot tv
['AH0 N D', 'HH AA1 T', 'T IY1 V IY1']
what spring is like
['W AH1 T', 'S P R IH1 NG', 'IH1 Z', 'L AY1 K']
arts print him like
['AA1 R T S', 'P R IH1 N T', 'HH IH1 M', 'L AY1 K']
On a Jupiter and Mars
['AA1 N', 'AH0', 'JH UW1 P AH0 T ER0', 'AH0 N D', 'M AA1 R Z']
august open the ads free
['AA1 G AH0 S T', 'OW1 P AH0 N', 'DH AH0', 'AE1 D Z', 'F R IY1']
More examples:
Boulder colorado
Take a break at Yaddo*
Economics
Put it in my pocket
(*not in CMUdict, input "Yah doe" instead)
culture girl around oh
too country key window
end a techniques
pay town interest diet
A B C
It's easy as, 1 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
A B C, 1 2 3
Baby, you and me girl
agree see
it jersey an, UK lee
desktop oil as, poor army
agree see, UK lee
job few a procedures
Amarillo by morning
Up from San Antone
Everything that I've got
Is just what I've got on
power al oh regarding
appear advanced show now
of re things archives at
inc ice two style root on
See GitHub for related code.