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Looking for offline dictionary that says word out loud

i am dyslexia so need to google words alot

Da Oeuf - 1day

Wordbook.

It downloads everything when you install it and can then be used entirely offline.

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RavenofDespair @lemmy.ml - 23hr

Thank :) this is great.

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Da Oeuf - 20hr

Your welcome :) It does its job perfectly 👌 I can't remember how to do it now but I think you can even use a keyboard shortcut to use it with any selected text in other programs.

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HelloRoot @lemy.lol - 1day

I googled around and I'm pretty sure there is no such thing.

  • The best ready to use project I stumbled upon is https://github.com/yousefvand/pronunciations and I have no clue whether it still works, because it uses google voice online once and downloads the robot made audio.

  • There is Lingua Libre, but I couldn't even find where to get the raw dataset for download

  • dict.cc has great online audio in the web and an offline app without audio ...

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Da Oeuf - 20hr

In case you're still interested, check out Wordbook

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HelloRoot @lemy.lol - 20hr

Thanks for sharing!

eSpeak-ng

yeeah, from my experience with eSpeak - I don't trust it to sound even remotely human or to pronounce everything correctly.

But it might be a viable alternative for somebody else!

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mustlane @lemmy.zip - 1day

dict(1)

You can connect offline dictionaries to it too.

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mustlane @lemmy.zip - 1day

Ohh, sorry, missed the "out loud" part. Don't think that "dict" supports that

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orca @orcas.enjoying.yachts - 1day

I bet with a little work you could then feed this through a tool for audio. Kinda curious to look into it myself.

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Arkhive - 1day

This is exactly what I was thinking. A TTS tool like piper could maybe make that happen.

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boredsquirrel - 9hr

For the tts part, try PiperTTS it allows to use various models for speaking

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