Re: Corpora: on-line syllable dictionaries

From: Andrew Harley (aharley@cup.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 11:57:40 MET

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    At 08:56 AM 2/25/00 -0500, Bill Fisher wrote:
    > konstantina stamou wrote: Dear All, I am trying to find a syllable
    >dictionary on the web but my efforts have been fruitless so far. Do you
    >happen to know if such a thing exists, first of all, and if it does could
    >you possibly help me to locate it?I would like to thank you in advance.
    >RegardsConstantina
    >
    > In English at least, the set of syllables is practically the same as the
    > ignoring accidental gaps, so you could get
    >one of the regular pronunciation dictionaries, such as CMU's,
    >(http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/pronounce) and filter
    >out all polysyllabic items. - Bill F.

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