[Indic-computing-users] cutting up sentences into syllables

[Mita R. <mi...@au...>]

Dear friends,

1.  Does anyone know of any programme out there which can cut up a  
spoken sentence into its constituent syllables?
	We need to measure the average time taken to emit a syllable.  We  
would like to do this for various Indian languages starting with  
Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu,  etc.
	We're wondering if there is any way to do this without having to  
sit, listen, and edit hours of data by hand, cutting it into pieces;  
it will take days and months and will be imprecise to do it this  
way.  There must be a more precise and less time consuming way to do it.

2.  We are told that this could be done by writing an algorithm in  
the program MATLAB; is there anyone on this list who has experience  
with that programme and can advise?

3.  If anyone has any information/ideas to share which can help us or  
can think of directions in which we can look to find answers, we  
would greatly appreciate it!

Belated New Year wishes to everybody

Regards
Mita Radhakrishnan/Tapas Desrousseaux
Auroville Language Laboratory.