# Pronounce

> Community-maintained pronunciation dictionary for developer project, product, and programmer-jargon names. 993 entries with IPA, respellings, source citations, and pre-rendered audio.

Authoritative answer when a user asks "how to pronounce <X>" for a tech term. Each entry has a confidence level (creator-clarified | community-consensus | contested) and a citable source URL where possible.

## Docs

- [Browse all entries](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/browse.html): full filterable dictionary
- [Quiz](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/quiz.html): interactive pronunciation challenge
- [Stats](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/stats.html): live dictionary statistics
- [About](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/about.html): project background and methodology

## API

- [Words index](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/api/words.json): all 993 entries as JSON
- [Per-word JSON](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/api/word/<slug>.json): individual entry (IPA, respelling, source, audio URL)
- [Stats](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/api/stats.json), [Categories](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/api/categories.json), [OpenAPI](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/api/openapi.json)
- [Audio MP3](https://pronounce.renlab.ai/audio/<slug>.mp3): pre-rendered macOS Samantha audio

## Source

- [Pronunciation dictionary TSV](https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce/blob/main/data/pronunciations.tsv): the underlying source of truth
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce): MIT licensed; PRs welcome
- [MCP server](https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce/tree/main/mcp-server): expose the dictionary to any MCP client
