Support Spanish in TTS (#396)

sherpa-onnx/csrc/lexicon.cc

@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ std::vector<int64_t> Lexicon::ConvertTextToTokenIds(
       return ConvertTextToTokenIdsEnglish(text);
     case Language::kGerman:
       return ConvertTextToTokenIdsGerman(text);
+    case Language::kSpanish:
+      return ConvertTextToTokenIdsSpanish(text);
     case Language::kChinese:
       return ConvertTextToTokenIdsChinese(text);
     default:
@@ -250,6 +252,8 @@ void Lexicon::InitLanguage(const std::string &_lang) {
     language_ = Language::kEnglish;
   } else if (lang == "german") {
     language_ = Language::kGerman;
+  } else if (lang == "spanish") {
+    language_ = Language::kSpanish;
   } else if (lang == "chinese") {
     language_ = Language::kChinese;
   } else {

sherpa-onnx/csrc/lexicon.h

@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ class Lexicon {
     return ConvertTextToTokenIdsEnglish(text);
   }
 
+  std::vector<int64_t> ConvertTextToTokenIdsSpanish(
+      const std::string &text) const {
+    return ConvertTextToTokenIdsEnglish(text);
+  }
+
   std::vector<int64_t> ConvertTextToTokenIdsEnglish(
       const std::string &text) const;
 
@@ -56,6 +61,7 @@ class Lexicon {
   enum class Language {
     kEnglish,
     kGerman,
+    kSpanish,
     kChinese,
     kUnknown,
   };

sherpa-onnx/csrc/text-utils.cc

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ template bool SplitStringToFloats(const std::string &full, const char *delim,
                                   std::vector<double> *out);
 
 static bool IsPunct(char c) { return c != '\'' && std::ispunct(c); }
-static bool IsGermanUmlauts(const std::string &words) {
+static bool IsGermanUmlauts(const std::string &word) {
   // ä 0xC3 0xA4
   // ö 0xC3 0xB6
   // ü 0xC3 0xBC
@@ -173,12 +173,12 @@ static bool IsGermanUmlauts(const std::string &words) {
   // Ü 0xC3 0x9C
   // ß 0xC3 0x9F
 
-  if (words.size() != 2 || static_cast<uint8_t>(words[0]) != 0xc3) {
+  if (word.size() != 2 || static_cast<uint8_t>(word[0]) != 0xc3) {
     return false;
   }
 
-  auto c = static_cast<uint8_t>(words[1]);
-  if (c == 0xa4 || c == 0xb6 || c == 0xbC || c == 0x84 || c == 0x96 ||
+  auto c = static_cast<uint8_t>(word[1]);
+  if (c == 0xa4 || c == 0xb6 || c == 0xbc || c == 0x84 || c == 0x96 ||
       c == 0x9c || c == 0x9f) {
     return true;
   }
@@ -186,6 +186,33 @@ static bool IsGermanUmlauts(const std::string &words) {
   return false;
 }
 
+// see https://www.tandem.net/blog/spanish-accents
+static bool IsSpanishDiacritic(const std::string &word) {
+  // á 0xC3 0xA1
+  // é 0xC3 0xA9
+  // í 0xC3 0xAD
+  // ó 0xC3 0xB3
+  // ú 0xC3 0xBA
+  // ü 0xC3 0xBC
+  // ñ 0xC3 0xB1
+
+  if (word.size() != 2 || static_cast<uint8_t>(word[0]) != 0xc3) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  auto c = static_cast<uint8_t>(word[1]);
+  if (c == 0xa1 || c == 0xa9 || c == 0xad || c == 0xb3 || c == 0xba ||
+      c == 0xbc || c == 0xb1) {
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  return false;
+}
+
+static bool IsSpecial(const std::string &w) {
+  return IsGermanUmlauts(w) || IsSpanishDiacritic(w);
+}
+
 static std::vector<std::string> MergeCharactersIntoWords(
     const std::vector<std::string> &words) {
   std::vector<std::string> ans;
@@ -196,7 +223,7 @@ static std::vector<std::string> MergeCharactersIntoWords(
 
   while (i < n) {
     const auto &w = words[i];
-    if (w.size() >= 3 || (w.size() == 2 && !IsGermanUmlauts(w)) ||
+    if (w.size() >= 3 || (w.size() == 2 && !IsSpecial(w)) ||
         (w.size() == 1 && (IsPunct(w[0]) || std::isspace(w[0])))) {
       if (prev != -1) {
         std::string t;
@@ -215,7 +242,7 @@ static std::vector<std::string> MergeCharactersIntoWords(
     }
 
     // e.g., öffnen
-    if (w.size() == 1 || (w.size() == 2 && IsGermanUmlauts(w))) {
+    if (w.size() == 1 || (w.size() == 2 && IsSpecial(w))) {
       if (prev == -1) {
         prev = i;
       }