Source: liblingua-en-syllable-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Damyan Ivanov Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/liblingua-en-syllable-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/liblingua-en-syllable-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Lingua-EN-Syllable Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: liblingua-en-syllable-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: module to estimate syllable count in English words Lingua::EN::Syllable::syllable() estimates the number of syllables in the English word passed to it. . Note that it isn't entirely accurate... it fails (by one syllable) for about 10-15% of the words. The only way to get a 100% accurate count is to do a dictionary lookup, so this is a small and fast alternative where more-or-less accurate results will suffice, such as estimating the reading level of a document.