experimental-prosody.py

# Imports Natual Language Tool Kit
import nltk

# Imports CMU Pronunciation Dictionary from NLTK Corpus
from nltk.corpus import cmudict

# Imports Random
import random

full_dict = cmudict.entries()[:]

l = 0
w = 0
wrd = ""

s = ""

while l < 3: # 3 lines
	while w < 3: # 3 letters for each word
		r = full_dict[random.randint(0, len(full_dict)-1)] # randomly picks a word and its pronunciation as a list
		q = r[1] # gets the word's pronunciation
		wrd = wrd + " " + r[0]
		for p in q:
			if ( len(p) !=1 and q.index(p) != 0 and q.index(p) != len(q)-1 ): # checks for boundary conditions 
				s = s + " " + q[q.index(p)-1] + "-" + p + "-" + q[q.index(p)+1] # constructs the line 
		w += 1
	print wrd + ":" + s
	w = 0
	s = ""
	wrd = ""
	l += 1