gotr

Google translate in the command line.

Disclaimer:

This is not officially supported way to access Google Translate. It can break at any time, so don't use it in the production systems. (Said that, it has been working stable since the first release: 2014-01-06.)

Usage:
  gotr <from> <to> <phrase>
  gotr [-l] [-s] <from> <to> <phrase>
  gotr -h | --help
  gotr --history
  gotr --list

Options:
  -h, --help    Show help
  -s, --speech  Enable speech synthesis
  -l, --log     Log query into ~/.gotr_history
  --list        List available languages
  --history     Print log history in JSON to the SDTOUT

How to install

You can download binaries from releases.

Homebrew

brew tap sparrovv/tap
brew install gotr

Examples

$ gotr en pl equivocal
dwuznaczny
dwuznaczny, wymijający, podejrzany

$ gotr en zh "May the force be with you"
愿原力与你同在

Speech synthesis

Unfortunately it's not available to all languages and some less popular ones don't have it yet.

Tips

To only check the pronunciation, specify <to> to be same as <from>.

$ gotr -s en en obstreperous
obstreperous

Passing <from> and <to> might be cumbersome. You might consider creating aliases for your default languages:

alias ep="gotr -l en pl"

alias pe="gotr -l pl en"

alias gees="gotr -l en en -s"

Requirements

To play audio, install afplay(OSX) or mpg123.

Other similar projects:

https://github.com/pawurb/termit (written in ruby)

Simbul/gotr