eng-syl 1.0.8

English word syllabifier

# English Syllabifier (eng_syl) This program implements a sequence labelling Bidirectional LSTM to identify syllable boundaries in English words. The model was trained on data from the WebCelex English wordform corpus.

Use the syllabify() function from the Syllabel class to syllabify your words:

>>> from eng_syl.syllabifier import Syllabel
>>> sylabler = Syllabel()
>>> syllabler.syllabify("chomsky")
'chom-sky'

syllabify() parameters

• text: string- English text to be syllabified. Input should only contain alphabetic characters.

syllabify() returns the given word with hyphens inserted at syllable boundaries.