is-it-a-haiku

single serving site that tells you if it's a haiku

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Type in some text and it will tell you if it's a haiku.

Uses the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary for English: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

Planned/potential updates:

  • should be upserting syllable info into the dictionary, not saving new records
  • spanish version
  • fuzzy haiku matching -- if we can't determine the syllables in a word, say "maybe" instead of NO

recent updates:

  • show recent haikus
  • feedback to let me know when it's wrong
  • guess syllabary for words not in the CMU dictionary (borrowed code from gem Lingua to do this)