aleef02 / thesaurus-portal

A program similar to "word of the day" but customizable for PyPortal

Thesaurus-Portal

A small project for school that I whipped up that pulls random words from the dictionary and displays them on intervals. Very similar to a 'word of the day', but in batches and customizable intervals. Click the 'ear' button to get a pronunciation of the word. Example runs can be found in the media folder

Setup

secrets.py

In the secrets.py file there are 4 fields which need to be updated for your own use.

ssid [REQUIRED]

The SSID of your WiFi. Make sure your wifi uses WPA or WPA2 for the PyPortal.

password [REQUIRED]

Password of your WiFi.

mw_key [REQUIRED]

Go to Merriam-Webster and sign up for a Collegiate Dictionary API key. Put your API key in this field.

voicerss_key [OPTIONAL]

Sometimes Merriam-Webster doesn't have WAV pronunciations, so Voice RSS can be used for pronunciations instead. If opting for MW pronunciations only, set flag USE_VOICERSS to False

code.py

Several settings can be changed to alter the functionality of the program

WORDS_PER_BATCH

How many words to pull from the API for a 'batch'. These words are continuously rotated in order until it is time for a new batch.

TIME_PER_WORD

How many seconds to display a word on screen at once for. Repeated BATCH_REPETITIONS times

BATCH_REPETITIONS

Number of times to display the batch in order before fetching a new batch of words

USE_VOICERSS

Flag to tell the program whether to use Voice RSS as your pronunciation source. Has the benefit that it will always have a pronunciation for a word, no matter how strange that word is.