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The Pronounce

A command line interface for English words pronunciation.

This program retrieves pronunciation files from the [dictionary.com] (https://www.dictionary.com/) website, which are publicly available to be downloaded and plays them automatically. This command downloads the pronunciation OGG files via wget, stores them locally in the ~/.cache/pronunciation.ogg folder, and plays them via ffplay.

Installation

  1. Copy the pronounce script somewhere in your path, for example in the /usr/bin folder.
  2. Create the ~/.cache/pronunciation.ogg folder.
  3. And install the ffplay (usually comes with the ffmpeg package).

Usage

You can run pronounce in 4 modes.

  • Mode 1: pronounce

    To listen to default pronunciation of a word, e.g. live, as found on the Web, type:

     pronounce live

  • Mode 2: pronounce

    To listen to the i-th available pronunciation of a word, e.g. the 2nd pronunciation of live (which has different pronunciations as noun and verb), type:

     pronounce live 2

  • Mode 3: pronounce f

    To open the given word's definition page, e.g. live, in firefox, type:

     pronounce live f

    This mode, internally runs the following command:

     firefox "https://www.dictionary.com/browse/live"

  • Mode 4: pronounce w

    To open the given word's definition page, e.g. live, in w3m command line browser, type:

     pronounce live w

    This mode, internally runs the following command:

     w3m "https://www.dictionary.com/browse/live"

License

Copyright © 2013-2022  Behnam Momeni

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see {http://www.gnu.org/licenses/}.