Lingua::EN::Syllable - Routine for estimating syllable count in words.

Lingua::EN::Syllable provides one subroutine, syllable(), which estimates the number of syllables in the word passed to it. It guesses correctly about 80-90% of the time, but it's smaller and faster than a dictionary lookup. So you can't really use it for writing random haiku, but you can do things like estimate reading grade level.

INSTALLATION

Follow the typical steps: after untarring the distribution into some random directory, do

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Greg Fast <gdf@imsa.edu>
11 Sept 98