Subj : Re: Determining Syllables
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.c
From : rouben
Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 06:06 pm

In article <dcth2q$seq$1@news.ox.ac.uk>,
pemo <peet.morris@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>Does anyone know of an algorithm that can accurately determine the number of 
>syllables in a given English word - esp. if that word isn't already 'known' 
>by such an algorithm?

I don't know about comp.programming, but this topic certainly
does not belong to comp.lang.c
  
Perhaps the information on the following page may be of some help:

   http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphen

Read that then do a web search on "hyphenation Frank Liang".

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Rouben Rostamian

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