Lingua::EN::Syllable::syllable() estimates the number of syllables in the word passed to it. Note that it isn't entirely accurate... it fails (by one syllable) for about 10-15% of my /usr/dict/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.
A module encapsulating access to the Ispell program. Lingua::Ispell::spellcheck() takes one argument. It must be a string, and it should contain only printable characters. One allowable exception is a terminal newline, which will be chomped off anyway. The line is fed to a coprocess running ispell for analysis. The line is parsed on non-wordchars into a sequence of terms. By default, the set of wordchars is defined in ispell as letters, digits, and the apostrophe,
Perl extension for detecting and converting various russian character sets: KOI8-r, Windows-1251, CP866, ISO-8859-5, X-Mac-Cyrillic, russian text in english letters, russian part of Unicode and UTF-8. This module can be especially useful for computers with broken cyrillic locales (like foreign web hosts).
