Is there a dictionary or database of English words with each word separated by syllables?

Question

I am looking for an existing database of English words with each word separated by syllables. My purpose is to further edit each word in any selected article based on the separation of syllables.

Does anyone know an existing product or method that can help me achieve this process?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but CMU has a pronunciation dictionary that clearly shows each syllable:

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

Answer 2

Perhaps a standard word list, plus a good hyphenation algorithm would do the trick?