A web toy generating rhymed metrical verse using the CMU pronouncing dictionary. Try it at http://wry.me/sonnetron/. Derived from https://github.com/darius/languagetoys/blob/master/simpleverse.py (but fancier now).
Thanks to Shae Erisson, Flourish Klink, and Halsted Bernard for beta feedback.
To run this locally: point your browser at index.html.
To understand the code, you need to understand the data it's using.
See 'About the CMU dictionary' and 'Phoneme set' at
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
So, for example, one pronunciation of 'hello' is encoded as
HH AH0 L OW1.
To rebuild the dictionary, you need some files not in the repo, and not handy to me (I'm on an extended trip). If you had them, you'd then:
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Fetch cmudict.0.7a into this directory, from http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict or specifically:
wget https://cmusphinx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cmusphinx/trunk/cmudict/cmudict.0.7a. -
Run
make. This filters and compresses the dictionary for the Javascript code's use. (For a more human vocabulary, quicker start, and lower bandwidth bills.)