#The Pronounce

A command line interface for English words pronunciation.

This program retrieves pronunciation files from the Meriam Webster Online Dictionary, which are publicly available to be downloaded and plays them automatically. This command downloads the pronunciation WAV files via wget, stores them locally in the ~/pronunciation.wavs 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 ~/pronunciation.wavs 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 "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live#headword"
  

• 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 "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live#headword"
  

##License Copyright © 2013 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
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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