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

The koRpus package will help you out immensley, but it's a little difficult to work with.

stopifnot(require(koRpus))
tokens <- tokenize(text, format="obj", lang='en')
flesch.kincaid(tokens)