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giancarlostoro
English is not my first language, and I didn't realize it was "google say" at first, so I was sitting here scratching my head wondering how you could possibly pronounce this word. Interesting that it's a shell script and not so much a browser extension or something. I guess this is for when you're knee deep in terminals?
myfonj
I've made something (probably) very similar for quick GB vs US pronunciation check that also leeches on Google's snapshot of what I believe is a licensed copy of the Oxford collection the same way the shell script does, but mine "runs in browser's URL bar" instead. It's a super tiny dataURI HTML document, intended to be bookmarked with a keyword (say, "say"):

    data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<title>US-GB pronunciation 2.0.2</title><body onload=x='https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20160317/' text=snow bgcolor=black><button onfocus=click() onclick=a.src=x+i.value+'--_us_1.mp3';a.play()>US</button><input id=i placeholder=(shift+)tab value="%s"><button onfocus=click() onclick=a.src=x+i.value+'--_gb_1.mp3';a.play()>GB</button><audio id=a onplay=i.focus()></audio>
so when I do

    Alt+D, "say something", Enter
then hitting Tab plays it in British and Shift+Tab plays it in US English. It uses older 2016 batch, because I totally adore the US voice in it: just listen to "music" [1] and tell it isn't pure ASMR.

(I'm afraid it just a matter of time they will prevent our mischief, though.)

[0] oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com uses the same collection. [1] https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20160317/mu...

edwcross
I tried running the suggested code (curl -sL ...) but inadvertently did not check it was missing quotes around '\r'. So after a while I started seeing some errors:

[error] No valid link found according to patterns for 'aboad'

[error] No valid link found according to patterns for 'absob'

[error] No valid link found according to patterns for 'acoss'

I thought "well, there's quite a lot of words I need to learn in English", but after seeing 'addess' and 'adventue' I thought "wait, this is not ight".

Fixing it helps, but there are still missing expressions, such as "add up", "a couple", etc.

dilap
There is a website forvo.com which has a bunch of community-generated pronunciations of words in a ton of languages. I used to use it a lot when I was playing around w/ learning languages.

There's also a paid API. I made a very basic command-line client which might still work: https://github.com/erinok/forvosay