Forvilo

Forvilo is a Mac menu bar application for quickly fetching audio pronunciations from Forvo.

Usage

Setup

Forvilo uses the Forvo API, which is a paid service. If you don't have an API key in ~/.forvilo, you'll be shown a window to input your API key.

Search

Open the search window via ctrl + shift + p.

Enter a word and hit enter. Forvilo will bring back up to 10 pronunciations.

Use the keys 0-9 to play the audio pronunciation for the respective result shown (use 0 to play the 10th result).

Filter

To find more specific results, specify a language code, voice, or country immediately after the search word:

hola es fetches pronunciations in Spanish

hallo de fetches pronunciations in German

hola es mexico fetches pronunciations in Mexican Spanish

hola f es mexico fetches female pronunciations in Mexican Spanish

hello kingdom en m fetches male pronunciations in British English

Building

1: Install dependencies: npm install.

2: To run a development build: npm run dev.

3: To create a full build: npm run build.