syllabipy

Collection of syllabification algorithms designed to be universal, aimed at low-resource languages without look-up techniques. No dependencies.

LegaliPy and SonoriPy have been incorporated into the Talisman NLP library for JavaScript.

installation

syllabipy can be installed with pip:

$ pip install syllabipy

LegaliPy

To get legal onsets for variable text:

>>> from syllabipy.legalipy import getOnsets
>>> getOnsets(text)

To syllabify a word:

>>> from syllabipy.legalipy import LegaliPy
>>> LegaliPy(word, getOnsets(text))

Command line usage to syllabify a text file:

$ python legalipy.py text.txt

SonoriPy

To syllabify a word:

>>> from syllabipy.sonoripy import SonoriPy
>>> SonoriPy("justification")
['jus', 'ti', 'fi', 'ca', 'tion']

Command line usage to syllabify a text file:

$ python sonoripy.py text.txt