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Classes

• _global_
• CmudictDb

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Built-In Namespace _global_

Method Summary

Method Attributes	Method Name and Description
	cmudictToArray(fileName) Reads the cmudict file into a JavaScript array of arrays.
	cmudictToSqliteDb(fileName) Parses the cmudict file into an SQLite database.

// Reading the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary from the flat file `cmudict` into 
// a JavaScript array:

var cmu = require('cmudict-to-sqlite');
var fileName = 'cmudict.0.7a';
var cmudict = cmu.cmudictToArray(fileName);
// the array will be huge and on my machine it takes longer to display it to 
// the console than it does to parse the file so, let's just display the first 
// thirty records
var count = 30;
while (count > 0) {
    console.log(cmudict[count]);
    count -= 1;
}

Parameters:

{String} fileName

The name and location of the cmudict to parse.

Returns:

{Array} An array of arrays. Each element in the array is an array with item 0 being the word and item 1 being the ARPAbet code. The array will also have a license property which contains the license header from the given cmudict file.

Requires:

fs

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// Converting the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary from the flat file `cmudict` into 
// an sqlite database:

var cmu = require('cmudict-to-sqlite');
var fileName = 'cmudict.0.7a';
cmu.cmudictToSqliteDb(fileName);

Parameters:

{String} fileName

The name and location of the cmudict to parse.

Requires:

sqlite3

cmudictToArray

See:

Carnegie Mellon University's information and download links for cmudict

Wikipedia's article on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Wikipedia's ARPAbet article

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