syllable

syllable

Syllable count in JavaScript.

Installation

npm:

$ npm install syllable

Component:

$ component install wooorm/syllable

Bower:

$ bower install syllable

Usage

var syllable = require('syllable');

syllable("syllable"); // 3
syllable("unicorn"); // 3
syllable("hi"); // 1
syllable("hihi"); // 2
syllable("mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"); // 1

CLI

Install:

$ npm install --global syllable

Use:

Usage: syllable [options] words...

Syllable count in an English word

Options:

  -h, --help           output usage information
  -v, --version        output version number

Usage:

# output syllables for words
$ syllable syllable unicorn
# 6

# output syllables for words from stdin
$ echo "syllable unicorn banana" | syllable
# 9

Benchmark

On a MacBook Air, it runs about 57,000 words per second.

          syllable — this module
  57 op/s » op/s * 1,000

          syllablistic
  37 op/s » op/s * 1,000

          text-statistics
  51 op/s » op/s * 1,000

Inspiration

Based on the syllable functionality found in Text-Statistics (PHP), in turn inspired by Lingua-EN-Syllable (Perl).

License

MIT © Titus Wormer