I've been using it for a long time. Check carefully, though, because it doesn't give you common slang hyphenations like "gon-na", and because it has a liturgical user base, it returns "bless-ed" instead of "blessed" and "pleas-ed" instead of "pleased."
Christopher On Fri Apr 5, at FridayApr 5 10:39 AM, Gregory Theisen wrote: > > Hello, > > This is my first post. I simply want to share a very useful tool that I found > on a website. It is a Lyric Hyphenator (english only). I've been using it > for about a year. It works great and it's free! You simply copy and paste > lyrics into the text box, and it automatically hyphenates them for you. You > then copy and paste them back into your lyric window on Finale, use click > assignment and voila! Very painless. > > http://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/ > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > > > Here's what's written on the website: > > The Lyric Hyphenator is a free online linguistics program that automatically > hyphenates English words into syllables. > It is great for use with music notation software like Finale. The resulting > text can simply be pasted into the program and automatically lined up with > the musical score. It is also a great tool for English teachers and students. > > Simply paste your text into the field below: > Current limitations include: > > Only hyphenates words found in standard English dictionaries. > Does not hyphenate some proper nouns. > Always double-check your results before using them. > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
