{"id":18285,"date":"2020-08-24T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T05:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18285"},"modified":"2020-08-24T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T05:16:55","slug":"the-cmu-pronouncing-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/08\/24\/the-cmu-pronouncing-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speech.cs.cmu.edu\/cgi-bin\/cmudict\">Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary<\/a> is an open-source machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 134,000 words and their pronunciations.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>One could use this data for speech recognition and speech synthesis, as the page suggests. One could also, presumably, use it to automatically create a rhyming dictionary, which is not a use that the page discusses.<\/p>\r\n<p>Someone asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/15822832\/rhyme-dictionary-from-cmu-pronunciation-database\">how to create a rhyming dictionary<\/a> on Stack Overflow some years back; the answers on that page pretty much explain how to do it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Someone else used the CMU dictionary to create a list of Shakespearean sonnet lines, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/aparrish\/ea3911c31cec8c858bd0\">match rhyming lines with each other<\/a>. It\u2019s not a very <em>good<\/em> poetry generator, but I\u2019m linking to it because it mentions the useful point that the CMU dictionary \u201cdoesn't provide a way to disambiguate different pronunciations according to the word\u2019s part of speech or other context.\u201d It also mentions that a word doesn\u2019t rhyme with itself.<\/p>\r\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m not going to embark on this project right now, but if I ever want to put together a digital rhyming dictionary, this seems like the easiest way to do it.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhyme","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18286,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18285\/revisions\/18286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}