Python Script to Generate Pseudo-language Paragraphs

PhonemeBasedParagraphGenerator.py

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# Author: Jamil Voss (2023)
# MIT License (free to use open-source license)
# Language: Python
# About:
# Python script to generate random pseudo-language paragraph.
# Uses arrays of vowel and consonant phonemes and 
# a normally distributed random index generator
# to concatenate phonemes.
#
# Try it out here: https://www.mycompiler.io/view/K4dwPObRtH4

import random
from scipy.stats import truncnorm
import unicodedata

phonemesCons = ["b",
"d",
"f",
"g",
"h",
"j",
"k",
"l",
"m",
"n",
"p",
"r",
"s",
"t",
"v",
"w",
"y",
"z"]

phonemesCons.extend(["ch",
"sh",
"ng",
"th",
"th",
"zh",
"wh"])

phonemesVow = ["ar",
"ār",
"ir",
"or",
"ur"]

phonemesVow.extend(["ā",
"ē",
"ī",
"ō",
"ū"])

phonemesVow.extend(["a",
"e",
"i",
"o",
"u"])

phonemesVow.extend(["oo",
"ōō"])

phonemesVow.extend(["ow",
"oy"])

phonemesCons.extend(["bl",
"cl",
"fl",
"gl",
"pl",
"br",
"cr",
"dr",
"fr",
"gr",
"pr",
"tr",
"sk",
"sl",
"sp",
"st",
"sw",
"spr",
"str"])

#print(phonemesCons)
#print(phonemesVow)

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/518232
def removeAccents(s):
   return ''.join(c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', s)
                  if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn')

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/74448424
def rand0To1NormalDist(mean=0, sd=1, low=0, upp=10):
    result = -1
    while result < 0 or\
          result > 1:
            result = truncnorm(
        (low - mean) / sd, (upp - mean) / sd, loc=mean, scale=sd).rvs()
    return result

def randomInt(lowVal, highVal):
    return int(rand0To1NormalDist() * (highVal-lowVal) + lowVal)
    
def randomFloat():
    return rand0To1NormalDist() 

def randWord():
    numPhonemes = randomInt(2,4)
    newWord = ""
    for i in range(numPhonemes):
        randIdxCons = randomInt(0, len(phonemesCons) - 1)
        #print(randIdxCons)
        randIdxVow = randomInt(0, len(phonemesVow) - 1)
        #print(randIdxVow)
        newWord += phonemesCons[randIdxCons]
        newWord += phonemesVow[randIdxVow]
        if(randomFloat() < 0.2):
            randIdxVow = randomInt(0, len(phonemesVow) - 1)
            newWord += phonemesVow[randIdxVow]
        if(randomFloat() < 0.2):
            randIdxCons = randomInt(0, len(phonemesCons) - 1)
            newWord += phonemesCons[randIdxCons]
    return removeAccents(newWord)

#print(randWord())

def randSentence():
    newSentence = ""
    numWords = randomInt(4, 11)
    for i in range(numWords):
        newSentence += randWord()
        if(i != numWords - 1):
            newSentence += " "
        else:
            newSentence += "."
    return newSentence.capitalize()
    
#print(randSentence())

def randParagraph():
    newParagraph = ""
    numSentences = randomInt(7, 22)
    for i in range(numSentences):
        newParagraph += randSentence()
        if(i != numSentences - 1):
            newParagraph += " "
    return newParagraph
    
print(randParagraph())