That's right, better use a lexical database. CELEX2, available fairly inexpensively from the Linguistic Data Consortium, has syllable boundaries in its phonological representations.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/readme_files/celex.readme.html#overview jds On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:37 PM, James Kosin <[email protected]> wrote: > Adam, > > Sorry, OpenNLP doesn't detect syllables. What you probably need is more > of a dictionary with pronunciation syllables. > It could be trained to do it maybe; but, would be very language specific > and not very useful. The dictionary approach would be best. Though > OpenNLP could help parse the words/tokens for you to use in the dictionary. > > James > > On 7/9/2012 5:26 PM, Adam Goodkind wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does OpenNLP have the ability to detect syllables? If not, could you point >> me to a java toolkit that can do this? >> >> Thanks, >> Adam >> > >
