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> as pronounced in English

I was curious about whether or not there was an IPA version (which would then work for any language) -- one of the first results I found was Eudex, which looks a little different (since it's a hash of the pronunciation) but more versatile.

https://github.com/ticki/eudex

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But how do you map from written form to IPA phonemes? For instance french is going to have a big problem there. Foie /fwa/ is a good example as has o, i and e written, but you pronounce a and some sort of u...

This might help:

https://github.com/open-dict-data/ipa-dict

Why? All you need is the rules that govern French writing. They clearly exist, else humans couldn't read French either. It can't be harder than English where the rules amount to "look it up in the dictionary".

eSpeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) can map text to IPA:

  $ espeak -q --ipa -v fr foie
   fwˈa

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