behnamb94 / pronunciation-downloader

Download and play all pronunciations of an English word from "Oxford Learners Dictionaries"

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.