voc-cli

voc

Download and play English vocabulary's audio via command line.

The audio will be downloaded to directory ~/vocabulary (this is configurable), and played by command line afplay (this is configurable too)

Dictionary:

• Webster
• Yahoo

Text-To-Speech:

• Google
• iSpeech

Installation

$ npm install -g voc-cli

Usage

Usage: voc <words...>

Options:

  -h, --help         output usage information
  -V, --version      output the version number
  -w, --webster      force download audio from webster
  -y, --yahoo        force download audio from yahoo
  -g, --google       force download audio from google
  -i, --ispeech      force download audio from ispeech
  -a, --audio <cli>  the command line to play .mp3 audio. set defaults to 'afplay'
  -d, --dir <path>   set the download directory. set defaults to '~/vocabulary'
  -l, --list         list all the configuration
  -r, --reset        reset configuration to default

Example

$ voc hello            # download hello.mp3
$ voc hello world      # download both hello.mp3, world.mp3
$ voc hello_world -g   # download sentence hello_world.mp3 from google service
$ voc hello_world -i   # download sentence hello_world.mp3 from ispeech service

Configuration

$ voc -a mplayer           # set audio command line to 'mplayer'
$ voc -d ~/my_vocabulary   # set download directory to '~/my_vocabulary'

License

MIT