Well, you could set up your rules and just database the exceptions. Then you at least have a guess for the words that you don’t “know” the answer for. If there is a database miss, then use the rule set.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 21, 2022, at 8:27 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I’ve tried a bunch of things. It’s 80-90% correct, but failing 10-20% of the > time due to irregulars isn’t acceptable. > I think I have to look into a database table lookup solution, but I’m > dreading it. > > Thanks, > > Rick > >> On Mar 21, 2022, at 4:18 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Such cases are rare, certainly, but “queue” comes to mind. I am sure that a >> vowel parsing routine will be reasonably accurate, but not perfect, as per >> the previous example. >> >> A quick search did not turn up any “list of all words and their syllable >> count”, but there still might be one. One site mentioned that algorithms >> were being used, but were “not perfect”. >> >> Craig > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
