Count syllables in text using a dictionary
Counts the number of syllables in given text using the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which contains over 134,000 words. This has the benefit of being much more accurate than algorithmic methods, but can fall short on less common words. Unknown words are provided a syllable count of 0.
npm install syllables
import syllables from 'syllables';
syllables('Hello!');
//=> 2
syllables('Language is an amazing thing, really.');
//=> 10
syllables("What's an asjhaiuhaiajsos?");
//=> 2
Type: string
Text to count syllables of. May include punctuation and contain any case.
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Count syllables in text using the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
We found that syllables demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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