Pronounce

git clone https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce.git cd pronounce && ./install.sh say-it kubectl

🏆 The developer pronunciation scoreboard

1,883 entries — 1,263 carry a citable source—105 settled by the creator themselves,174 the community still argues about.The famous ones:

⚔️ Still contested — both readings are in active use

$ say-it --why JSON word JSON ipa /ˈdʒeɪsən/ respelling_us jay son confidence contested source Wikipedia § Pronunciation url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Pronunciation

Because Google gives you 47 Reddit arguments and a YouTube clip you have to unmute. IPA gives you/ˈkuːb kənˌtroʊl/— a reference, not a teacher.

You don't need a phonetic transcription. You need tohearthe word. Twice. Maybe three times. Done.

say-itships a community-maintained dictionary of how engineers actually say the names that trip everyone up — and feeds theintendedrespelling to your OS's text-to-speech engine, sokubectlcomes out askoob-control, not whatever your computer guessed from the letters.

Some pronunciations aren't opinions — the creators settled them. The dictionary cites every one:

Runsay-it --why <word>to see the citation when an entry has asource_url; unsourced entries are left blank rather than given a fabricated URL.

brew install anzy-renlab-ai/tap/say-it # Homebrew on macOS

Or the "Try it in 30 seconds" block above../install.shdrops:

say-it kubectl # primary × 3, then "or: <alt>" for each alternate say-it --solo kubectl # primary only — silence the "or:" tail say-it --alt GIF # focus on the first alternate say-it --alt 2 GUI # focus on the Nth alternate (1-indexed) say-it --all SQL # primary AND every alternate, each repeated say-it --no-dict kubectl # bypass the dictionary entirely say-it --why JSON # show IPA, source URL, category, confidence say-it list # every word in the dictionary say-it search redis # grep the dictionary (case-insensitive) say-it -n 5 Pydantic # 5 repetitions instead of 3 say-it -r 110 Knative # slower (110 wpm; default is 130) say-it -o /tmp/word.aiff Postgres # save to file instead of playing say-it --list # all macOS voices

The default macOS voice isSamantha(General American);-v <voice>selects another macOS voice. Linux and Windows use their detected backend's English voice. The dictionary is GenAm-only, by design.

You: kubectl 怎么读？ Claude: 🔊 (plays "koob-control" three times) /ˈkuːb kənˌtroʊl/ — "KOOB-control". Kelsey Hightower says it this way (KubeCon talk). "Cube-cuddle" is an alternate — try say-it --alt kubectl to hear it.

Once installed, thepronounce-wordskill auto-triggers on:

- X 怎么读/X 怎么发音/读一下 X
- how do you pronounce X/pronounce X/how do you say X

Hover over any tech word in any file — see the IPA, hear the pronunciation. Same 1,883-entry dictionary as the CLI, JSON-bundled at build (zero runtime parse cost).

# Cursor / VSCodium / Zed / Gitpod / Theia / code-server (Open VSX) code --install-extension sayit.pronounce # or the listing: https://open-vsx.org/extension/sayit/pronounce