Syllables: A fast syllable estimator for Python
Syllables is a fast, simple syllable estimator for Python. It's intended for use in places where speed matters. For situations where accuracy matters, please consider the cmudict Python library instead.
Installation
syllables
is available on PyPI. Simply install it with pip
:
pip install syllables
You can also install it from source:
$ git clone https://github.com/prosegrinder/python-syllables.git
Cloning into 'python-syllables'...
...
$ cd python-syllables
$ python setup.py install
...
Usage
Syllables provides a single function, estimate, which estimates the number of syllables in a single word.
>>> import syllables
>>> syllables.estimate('estimate')
4
>>> syllables.estimate('syllables')
3
Credits
Built on or modeled after the following open source projects: