Play Forvo pronunciations straight from your terminal.

Install forvo-cli with cargo¹

cargo install forvo-cli

forvo-cli -w <word> [-v]

e.g.:

forvo-cli -w torvalds -v

Documentation

• @urbanij

The audio is currently auto-played only on macOS. On other platforms they are just downloaded inside the /tmp folder.

¹ Requires the Rust toolchain (fairly lightweight) https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install