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December 18, 2015 08:09
Guess the number of syllables in a word. Not as good as looking up stuff from the CMU pronunciation dictionary...
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| "This is a naive implementation of syllable guessing. This is for Amber smalltalk. It probably works elsewhere with minor changes." | |
| | word | | |
| word := 'tumult' asLowercase. | |
| word := word replaceRegexp: '(?:[^laeiouy]es|ed|[^laeiouy]e)$' with: ''. | |
| word := word replaceRegexp: '^y' with: ''. | |
| console log: ( word matchesOf: ( RegularExpression fromString: '[aeiouy]{1,2}' flag: 'g' ) ) size. | |
| "Use the CMU Pronunciation Dictionary to determine the number and stress of syllables in a word. Obviously this only works with words that are in the dictionary." |