syllable

Ruby, Count syllables

Hey, I am using ruby to calculate the Gunning Fog Index of some content that I have, I can successfully implement the algorithm described here: Gunning Fog Index I am using the below method to count the number of syllables in each word: Tokenizer = /([aeiouy]{1,3})/ def count_syllables(word) len = 0 if word[-3..-1] ==...

Corpus/data set of English words with syllabic stress information?

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone know of a dataset of English words that has stress information by syllable? Something as simple as the following would be fantastic: AARD vark A ble a BOUT ac COUNT AC id ad DIC tion ad VERT ise ment ... Thanks in advance! ...

How can I generate a random English "sounding" word in .Net?

I know there have been several posts about random word generation based on large dictionaries or web lookups. However, I'm looking for a word generator which I can use to create strong password without symbols. What I'm looking for is a reliable mechanism to generate a random, non recognised, English word of a given length. An example ...