word-syllable-map

Provides a one-way map from the words to the syllables they contain, derived from the data in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. You can look up the syllables for a word with this.

Installation

npm install word-syllable-map

Usage

Sometime before you use the map, you need to call setUpDatabase to set up a database, like so:

var setUpDatabase = require('word-syllable-map').setUpDatabase;

setUpDatabase(
  {
    dbLocation: __dirname + '/where-you-want-it/a-word-syllable.db'
  },
  done
);

function done(error) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
  else {
    console.log('Successfully set up database.');
  }
}

You only need to do this once.

From then on, you can use the map like this:

var createWordSyllableMap = require('word-syllable-map').createWordSyllableMap;
var wordSyllableMap = createWordSyllableMap({
  dbLocation: __dirname + '/where-you-want-it-/a-word-phoneme.db'
});

wordSyllableMap.syllablesForWord('ABNORMALLY', showSyllables);

function showSyllables(error, syllables) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
  else {
    console.log(syllables);
  }
}

Output:

[
  ['AE', 'B'], 
  ['N', 'AO', 'R'],
  ['M', 'AH'], 
  ['L', 'IY']
]

Tests

Run tests with make test.

About CMUdict (the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary)

"It is a free pronouncing dictionary of English, suitable for uses in speech technology and is maintained by the Speech Group in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University."

"The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, in its current and previous versions is Copyright (C) 1993-2014 by Carnegie Mellon University. Use of this dictionary for any research or commercial purpose is completely unrestricted. If you make use of or redistribute this material we request that you acknowledge its origin in your descriptions."

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Kang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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