Splits a word into syllables

SplitSyllables.py

'''
SPLIT SYLLABLES
Jeff Thompson | 2016 | jeffreythompson.org

Requires this modified version of the CMU Pronouncing
dictionary by Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak and Colin Cherry: 
https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~kondrak/cmudict.html

Download and save to your project directory, or somewhere you can
easily reference it.

'''

dict_filename = 'cmudict.rep'

syllable_dict = {}
with open(dict_filename) as f:
    for line in f:
        line = line.strip()
        line = line.lower()

        # ignore comments
        if line.startswith('##'):
            continue
        
        try:
            word, phones = line.split('  ')
            syll = phones.split(' - ')
            syllable_dict[word] = syll
        except:
            print 'error parsing word ' + word

print syllable_dict['the']
print syllable_dict['beautiful']
print syllable_dict['serious']
print syllable_dict['seriously']