eng-syl 2.0.1

English word syllabifier and extended syllable analysis tool

# 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.syllabify import Syllabel
>>> syllabler = 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.

Onceler (Onset, Nucleus, Coda Segmenter)

The onc_split() function from the Onceler class splits single syllables into their constituent Onset, Nucleus, and Coda components.

>>> from eng_syl.onceler import Onceler
>>> lorax = Onceler()
>>> print(lorax.onc_split("sloan")
'sl-oa-n'

• text: string - English single syllable word/ component to be segmented into Onset, Nucleus, Coda. Input should only contain alphabetic characters.