Bug#736823: ITP: liblingua-en-syllable-perl -- estimate syllable count in English words

[Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>

Control: block 736816 by -1

* Package name    : liblingua-en-syllable-perl
  Version         : 0.251
  Upstream Author : Greg Fast <gdf@imsa.edu>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/Lingua-EN-Syllable
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : routine for estimating syllable count in 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.

This module is a dependency of liblingua-en-fathom-perl (ITP #736816) and will be maintained by the Debian Perl Group.