ParakeetRebeccaRosario/examples/tacotron2_aishell3/chinese_text_to_pinyin.py

from pypinyin import lazy_pinyin, Style
from typing import List


def convert_to_pinyin(text: str) -> List[str]:
    """convert text into list of syllables, other characters that are not chinese, thus
    cannot be converted to pinyin are splited.
    """
    syllables = lazy_pinyin(text,
                            style=Style.TONE3,
                            neutral_tone_with_five=True)
    return syllables