I wish to find any tool or software that can count the syllabic content of
straight copy text. I wish to create passages of text with a syllabic
content of 1.5. Does anybody know how to do this rather than doing it
manually.
Are you doing this in Microsoft Access (the subject of this
newsgroup)? Somehow I doubt it...
This would be an EXTREMELY difficult task in English (much easier in
some languages with more rational orthography). Think about it: I know
people who pronounce "orange" with one syllable (ornj), some with two
(aw ranj). There are lots of words like this in different dialects.
(Heck, my Georgia uncle pronounces "yup" with at least five syllables
when he's in the right mood!)
That leaves aside the perplexing and complex relationship between
spelling and sound. It's NOT rational.
The only suggestion I could make would be a dictionary-based approach
in which you store all (or the vast majority) of the words in the
text's vocabulary, with a syllable count stored for each.
John W. Vinson[MVP]
