Jumping Words¶ ↑
The program speaks and displays in the pop-up window the word or phrase and the word’s translation or phrase. After end of list back to the start.
Supports OS MAC OS X 10.8 or higher or Ubuntu
Dependencies¶ ↑
For linux sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
On MAC OS X before you start, you should add to your system the voices for words and translates. To enable the speech recognition ability and use speech commands on your Mac, the first thing you have to do is open the Speech menu from System Preferences.
For example for Russian you should install the Milena voice.
Config¶ ↑
Default:
Show message: true Timeout between a word and translate: 3 sec. Timeout to start list: 10 sec. MAC OS X word voice: Vicki. MAC OS X translate voice: Milena.
More:
jwords -h
Actions¶ ↑
Starting
jwords start
or
jwords -v Fiona -t Milena -i5 start
Stoping
ctrl+c
View a list of words
jwords list 1 convenient: удобный | 7 2 If I were you: на твоем месте | 6 3 in turns: по очереди | 5 4 endurance: выносливость | 2 5 spoil, spoilt, spoilt: портиться, испортилось | 2 6 to lead, led, led: приводить, привели | 2 7 to achieve: достигать | 2 ...
Adding words to the database
jwords -a root: корень jwords -a to play: играть
Delete a word from the database (indicated by the index of the word in the list)
jwords -d 1
If you want to change words in directly in CSV find .jwords directory in your home directory, then open jumping_words_db.csv. After saving the file restart the script.
Install¶ ↑
gem install jumping_words
For OS X users: you also should install the github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier for notifications.
brew install terminal-notifier
ToDo¶ ↑
For Ubuntu users give config for changing language system voice.