Frankly I'd go for isolated vowels (I, A), Vowel+ Consonant (In, On,
An), and Consonant+ Vowel (La, Lo, Fi), you
also have a problem with the semi-vowel Y, and the semi-vowel U ( 'yu'
as un Union, and 'u' as in Utter).
This is pretty impressive: https://syllablecounter.net/count
I gave it 'Beautiful aesthetic foetuses' and it came up, correctly, with
9 syllables . . . the Q is what's the code:
probably time to download the webpage and poke around a bit.
On 20.03.22 21:12, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote:
This post goes over some techniques:
https://mholtzscher.github.io/2018/05/29/syllables/
<https://mholtzscher.github.io/2018/05/29/syllables/>
On Mar 20, 2022, at 12:51 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Hi Richmond,
Yes, English. Sorry I forgot to be specific, I thought it was implied.
Yes, I have been counting vowels, but there appear to be a lot of exceptions,
so there must be a lot more rules.
I need to know what all the rules are to make it work if possible.
There are websites out there on the internet that will count
syllables in whatever text given to them so it must be possible.
How are they doing it? Is it an algorithm ,or are they comparing
the words to a database table that has all the dictionary information?
Thanks,
Rick
On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:29 PM, Richmond via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Well, syllables are language dependent, so let's suppose for the moment that
you are ONLY working with English, the, presumably, you can set up vowels
as item-delimiters: although you might get a bit mixed up with words sucj
as 'beautiful' which, while having 5 vowels only has 3 syllables.
Basically you have to work out how to detect V+C and open vowels at the
end of words.
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