Re: [Corpora-List] syllable count from text

From: Bruce L. Lambert, Ph.D. (lambertb@uic.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 23:13:13 MET DST

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    In English a simple vowel count does surprisingly well. Add a few
    exceptions for silent "e" and common double vowel sequences and for "y"
    acting as a vowel, and you can do even better. I have a Lisp function that
    does this, but Viktor's module is probably easier to use for most people.

    -bruce

    At 03:42 PM 4/7/2005, Viktor Tron wrote:
    >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

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