Re: [Corpora-List] syllable count from text

From: Viktor Tron (v.tron@ed.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 22:42:35 MET DST

  • Next message: Bruce L. Lambert, Ph.D.: "Re: [Corpora-List] syllable count from text"

    Hi Amy,
    You can't get round the lookup I think.
    see
    http://www.clres.com/Spoken%20Language%20Corpora.html
    for online syllable dictionaries

    For the 'reasonable guess', you can use
    this perl module:
    http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-EN-Syllable/Syllable.pm

    Best
    Viktor

    On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 19:32:03 +0100 (BST), Amy Isard <amyi@inf.ed.ac.uk>
    wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > Does anyone have a script which will take a text file of space
    > separated words and output a syllable count, preferably based on
    > dictionary lookup with a fallback to a reasonable guess for unknown
    > words?
    >
    > I have the CMU pronouncing dictionary, and I could write one myself
    > but if someone else has already done it ...
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Amy
    >
    >
    >

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