https://github.com/missingfaktor/pronounce

Look up modern English pronunciation from your terminal
https://github.com/missingfaktor/pronounce

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Look up modern English pronunciation from your terminal

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/missingfaktor/pronounce
• Owner: missingfaktor
• License: mit
• Created: 2025-07-19T16:23:52.000Z (8 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-07-27T10:52:50.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-27T12:37:11.649Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 99.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# pronounce

A simple command-line utility for looking up modern English pronunciations using Geoff

Lindsey’s [CUBE dictionary](http://seas3.elte.hu/cube/index.pl?s=cube&grammar=1&fullw=1).

I'm a big admirer of Geoff Lindsey’s work on updating how English pronunciation is analysed and taught. His [YouTube

channel](https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey) and his

book [English After RP](https://www.englishspeechservices.com/english-after-rp/) have been hugely influential in how I

understand phonetics and phonology.

The CUBE (Current British English) dictionary offers up-to-date, research-backed transcriptions for thousands of English

words. This CLI tool lets you query it right from your terminal.

If you're curious about why the CUBE dictionary uses forms like `/ɪj/` instead of the traditional `/iː/`, I highly

recommend watching [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnlGH055TA) to understand the reasoning behind it.

## Development

This project uses [uv](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) for dependency management and packaging. All dependencies and

script entry points are managed through `pyproject.toml`.

You can set up your development environment using the following script:

```bash

scripts/setup.sh

```

## Usage

```

> pronounce --help

Usage: python -m pronounce.main [OPTIONS] WORD

Options:

  -n, --include_non_full_word_matches

                                  Include non full word matches

  --help                          Show this message and exit.

> pronounce drawing

✅ Looked up drawing in 1.5s

      CUBE Pronunciations      

┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓

┃ # ┃ Word    ┃ Pronunciation ┃

┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩

│ 1 │ drawing │ dʒ ɹ óː ɹ ɪ ŋ │

└───┴─────────┴───────────────┘

> pronounce -n whom

✅ Looked up whom in 1.4s

         CUBE Pronunciations          

┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓

┃ # ┃ Word       ┃ Pronunciation     ┃

┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩

│ 1 │ whom       │ h ʉ́w m            │

├───┼────────────┼───────────────────┤

│ 2 │ whomever   │ h ʉw m ɛ́ v ə      │

├───┼────────────┼───────────────────┤

│ 3 │ whomsoever │ h ʉ́w m s əw ɛ́ v ə │

├───┼────────────┼───────────────────┤

│ 4 │ whomst     │ h ʉ́w m s d        │

└───┴────────────┴───────────────────┘

```