cmu-pronouncing-dictionary

cmu-pronouncing-dictionary

All the 134,000+ words in the CMU pronouncing dictionary as a simple JSON object

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (also known as cmudict) is a public domain pronouncing dictionary created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It defines a mapping from English words to their North American pronunciations, and is commonly used in speech processing applications

There are a handful of npm modules for working with the CMU pronouncing dictionary, but none so simple as this one. Unlike the alternatives, this module simple exports an object containing words as keys and their Arpabet transcriptions as values. Here's a sample:

{
  "allergen": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 N",
  "allergens": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 N Z",
  "allergic": "AH0 L ER1 JH IH0 K",
  "allergies": "AE1 L ER0 JH IY0 Z",
  "allergist": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 S T",
  "allergist's": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 S T S",
  "allergist's(1)": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 S",
  "allergists": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 S T S",
  "allergists(1)": "AE1 L ER0 JH AH0 S",
  "allergy": "AE1 L ER0 JH IY0",
  "allers": "AO1 L ER0 Z",
  "allert": "AE1 L ER0 T",
  "allerton": "AE1 L ER0 T AH0 N",
  "alles": "EY1 L Z",
  "alleva": "AA0 L EY1 V AH0",
  "alleviate": "AH0 L IY1 V IY0 EY2 T",
  "alleviated": "AH0 L IY1 V IY0 EY2 T IH0 D",
  "alleviates": "AH0 L IY1 V IY0 EY0 T S",
  "alleviating": "AH0 L IY1 V IY0 EY2 T IH0 NG"
}

Installation

Download node at nodejs.org and install it, if you haven't already.

npm install cmu-pronouncing-dictionary --save

Usage

const words = require('cmu-pronouncing-dictionary')

words.length
// => 133779

words.phenomenon
// => 'F AH0 N AA1 M AH0 N AA2 N'
words.zygote
// => 'Z AY1 G OW0 T'

Tests

npm install
npm test

Dependencies

None

Dev Dependencies

• code: assertion library
• mocha: simple, flexible, fun test framework
• standard: JavaScript Standard Style

License

ISC

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