node-cmudict ============ cmudict is a basic wrapper around the [CMU Pronouncing Dictonary](http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict). The purpose of this wrapper is to enable phoneme extraction from a given word to do linguistic operations such as syllable counting and rhyming. Note that the dictionary is finite: though large, it will not find certain words. In this case you will have to improvise. Usage ----- var CMUDict = require('cmudict').CMUDict; var cmudict = new CMUDict(); var phoneme_str = cmudict.get('prosaic'); // 'P R OW0 Z EY1 IH0 K' Counting syllables and determining the end rhyme is an exercise left up to the reader as there are a number of ways to do this. (see: [Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er](http://www.tug.org/docs/liang/)). Installation ------------ `npm install cmudict` Performance ----------- The dictionary is a huge flatfile. It is lazily read into memory upon the first call to `.get()`. It takes about 1 second, on average, to read this file in, but from that point on accesses are a simple object property lookup. I originally used [node-mmap](https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-mmap) but found the performance of `fs.readFileSync()` to be comparable. Attribution ----------- The nodejs code was written by Nathaniel K Smith . The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary is Copyright (C) 1993-2008 by Carnegie Mellon University. License ------- All code not under copyright by CMU is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).