Syllables is a fast, simple syllable estimator for Python. It's intended for use in places where speed matters. For situations where accuracy matters, please consider the cmudict Python library instead.
syllables is available on PyPI. Simply install it with pip:
pip install syllables
Syllables provides a single function, estimate, which estimates the number of syllables in a single word.
>>> import syllables
>>> syllables.estimate('estimate')
4
>>> syllables.estimate('syllables')
3
Built on or modeled after the following open source projects:
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A Python package for estimating the number of syllables in a word.
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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