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The 134,000+ words and their pronunciations in the CMU pronouncing dictionary
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The 134,000+ words and their pronunciations in the CMU pronouncing dictionary.
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.
Crawled from cmusphinx/cmudict
.
This package is ESM only:
Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be import
ed instead of require
d.
npm:
npm install cmu-pronouncing-dictionary
import { dictionary } from 'cmu-pronouncing-dictionary'
console.log(dictionary)
Yields:
{
a: 'AH0',
'a(1)': 'EY1',
"a's": 'EY1 Z',
'a.': 'EY1',
"a.'s": 'EY1 Z',
'a.s': 'EY1 Z',
a42128: 'EY1 F AO1 R T UW1 W AH1 N T UW1 EY1 T',
aa: 'EY2 EY1',
aaa: 'T R IH2 P AH0 L EY1',
aaberg: 'AA1 B ER0 G',
aachen: 'AA1 K AH0 N',
aachener: 'AA1 K AH0 N ER0',
aah: 'AA1',
aaker: 'AA1 K ER0',
aaliyah: 'AA2 L IY1 AA2',
aalseth: 'AA1 L S EH0 TH',
aamodt: 'AA1 M AH0 T',
aancor: 'AA1 N K AO2 R',
// …and many more
}
This package exports the following identifiers: dictionary
.
There is no default export.
dictionary
Object.<string>
— Map of English words to ARPABET phonetic transcription
codes.
Note that sometimes there are multiple possible pronunciations.
Those are represented as $word($counter)
, like so:
{
// …
"unnatural": "AH0 N N AE1 CH ER0 AH0 L",
"unnaturally": "AH0 N N AE1 CH ER0 AH0 L IY0",
"unnaturally(2)": "AH0 N N AE1 CH ER0 L IY0",
"unnaturally(3)": "AH0 N AE1 CH ER0 L IY0",
"unnaturally(4)": "AH0 N N AE1 CH R AH0 L IY0",
"unnecessarily": "AH0 N N EH1 S AH0 S EH2 R AH0 L IY0",
"unnecessary": "AH0 N N EH1 S AH0 S EH2 R IY0",
// …
}
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The 134,000+ words and their pronunciations in the CMU pronouncing dictionary
The npm package cmu-pronouncing-dictionary receives a total of 568 weekly downloads. As such, cmu-pronouncing-dictionary popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cmu-pronouncing-dictionary demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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