Pronunciation Downloader
Download and play all pronunciations of an English word, showing phonetics. This script crowls www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com website.
Usage
Run python script in this way:
usage: pronunciation_download.py [-h] [--web] word
Download pronunciation of an English word.
positional arguments:
word an English word
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--web to open the webpage on the browser
Example
For example, to check out the word "increase" you should run:
python pronunciation_download.py increase
then the output will be like:
increase (verb) /ɪnˈkriːs/
increase (noun) /ˈɪŋkriːs/
and it will store increase (noun).mp3 and increase (verb).mp3 files and play each one.
Run
This script is tested on Ubuntu 20.04. First, install pre-requirement for PyGObject
package as mentioned here:
sudo apt install libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
Then install python packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Now you can use the script like the example above.