How to split syllables of a word into matlab?

plz help

[KSSV]

Give an example....

[per isakson]

Goggle says: "a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno."

Such a definition isn't good enough for Matlab. Do you have an operational definition?

[Walter Roberson]

This is difficult to do for English words. There are English words for which there is widespread disagreement as to the number of syllables. The number of syllables can be affected by the exact suffixes that are present -- by which I mean that adding a suffix can alter how the part before that is broken up into syllables.

In English, the word ghoti has one syllable.

[Stephen23]

Perhaps the Knuth-Plass line-breaking algorithm, and its associated hyphenation algorithm might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Hyphenation_and_justification

That algorithm identifies (likely) syllables, and could be ported to MATLAB (if someone was very keen).

[Steven Lord]

I'm not sure this is always possible to do without context. How would you divide the word "unionized"? Note that Wikitionary article is in both the "English 3-syllable words" and "English 4-syllable words" categories.

There's an old joke that takes advantage of that ambiguity: is your MATLAB code a chemist or a plumber?

[Stephen23]

Using Ned Batchelder's python implementation of Frank Liang's hyphenation algorithm:

hyp.hyphenate_word("unionized")
Out[3]: ['union', 'ized']

hyp.hyphenate_word("ghoti")
Out[4]: ['ghoti']

Close, but no cigar.

[Rik]

I wrote very rough code to do this in Dutch, so I know from experience how tough it is to find a suitable way to find syllables. I had to manually check all words, so for most applications, that is not the way to go.

You could try finding a dictionary that has split words.