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.

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).

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"
  

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