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+#!/bin/bash
+# Pronounce a word using English audio from dictionary.cambridge.org
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2019 Mike Gerwitz
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see .
+#
+# This script requires wget for scraping and mpv for playback. Please
+# consider your privacy---if you do not want to leak the words you are
+# looking up, prefix this command with `torify' to proxy through Tor.
+#
+# A suggestd improvement to this script to anyone who may want to do so:
+# derive region and language from $LANG environment variables.
+##
+
+which mpv &>/dev/null || {
+ echo 'missing mpv' >&2
+ exit 1
+}
+
+declare -r name=$( basename "$0" )
+declare -r www=${PRONOUNCE_WWW:-https://dictionary.cambridge.org/}
+declare -r region=${PRONOUNCE_REGION:-us}
+declare -r lang=${PRONOUNCE_LANG:-english}
+
+
+usage()
+{
+ cat <.
+EOU
+
+ exit 64 # EX_USAGE
+}
+
+
+main()
+{
+ test $# -gt 0 || usage
+
+ local -r word=$1
+
+ local -r ogg_url=$(
+ wget -O- "$www/$region/pronunciation/$lang/$word" \
+ | grep -o 'data-src-ogg="[^"]\+"' \
+ | grep "$region"_pron_ogg \
+ | head -n1 \
+ | cut -d\" -f2
+ )
+
+ test -n "$ogg_url" || {
+ echo "US OGG not found for \`$word'" >&2
+ exit 1
+ }
+
+ mpv -vo null "$www/$ogg_url"
+}
+
+main "$@"
+