Counting syllables

Question

I\'m looking to assign some different readability scores to text in R such as the Flesh Kincaid.

Does anyone know of a way to segment words into syllables using R? I

Answer 1

Some tools for NLP are available here:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/NaturalLanguageProcessing.html

The task is non-trivial though. More hints (including an algorithm you could implement) here:

Detecting syllables in a word