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  """
  Pysle is an interface to the ISLEX English pronunciation dictionary
  
  ISLEX contains multiple variations in pronunciations for words--
  like [b ɚ ɹ d] or [b ˈɝ d] for 'bird'.  It contains primary and
  secondary stress information as in [ˈɛ . l ə . v ˌei . ɾ ɚ] for 'elevator'
  
  Using pysle, you can query this resource.
  
  **isletool.py** contains the fundamental parts of the code.  This
  code is responsible for looking up words and getting their
  pronunciation. With the search() function, you can look up words
  based on their pronunication too.  For example, every word that
  starts with a vowel or that ends in
  [k æ t] ('scat', 'cat', 'muscat'), etc.
  
  **pronunciationtools.py** contains useful utilities when working
  with a corpus of pronunciation data.  You can compare pronunciations
  from your own data with "ideal" pronunciations from the ISLEX dictionary.
  Such data can be used to explore speech data--which syllables are
  expected to be stressed?  Are there phones or syllables that might
  have been dropped in the pronunciation?
  
  **praattools.py** contains useful utilities if you are working
  specifically with data stored in TextGrids.  Praat is a speech
  analysis tool that stores speech annotation data--such as phone
  labels--in TextGrids.
  """
  