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Example Sound Files - Transtic - 2008-06-19
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Example Sound Files - albion - 2008-06-27
radical_tyro Wrote:Same here, on mac os x. You?Windows XP for me.
I had a go and collected from sentences from Metal Gear Solid 4, from the first mission breifing. I've been playing it, and wanted to try to understand more of it (I can do fine the majority of the time if I can read the subtitles as I go along, but I'm not confident in being able to understand as much with just audio, so I wanted to test myself with that).
There are a lot of what I think are complex sentences in there, but also some simpler ones I included because I thought the phrase was useful or it had an interesting point in it (like how to read kanji when attacted to katakana or how to count things).
There's 86 clips in total, on average around 5-10 seconds long. Most are MP3, but some are also in WAV. I started out saving them as WAV, but change to MP3 later on. I don't know if that
I downloaded the audio from a video on NicoDouga, which did have a slight problem. There's one part that's interactive, which the guy recording the video used mess around with the "Mk. II" and explore while the breifing goes on. The trouble is that if you move away from the speaking characters, the volume of the audio goes down or will only come through on one side (right/left). There's also the machine noises and the sounds of him crashing into things. The ones where you get sound mainly on one side are a little annoying (at least I find them to be). But maybe the background noise can be good practice for trying to pick out what people are saying in less-than-ideal conditions.
I haven't made an SRS file for it yet. I'm trying to now, but I don't know if it's better to just leave it basic and let people edit it to suit their individual needs (for example, I wouldn't in general put English in the answers; just the vocab and readings I don't know). But included a file with the full (except a little bit at the beginning) transcript. This is mainly if anyone wanted to add the English translation to it, so they could pinpoint where the line appears exactly, and if you wanted the text in an easier format to use that getting them from the file names.
The audio and transcript:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bwzmydxgkmz (26mb)
I should have checked this out beforehand, but there is one line that's repeated twice, only with a small line added at the end (各国は事態を危惧しながらも 戦争経済の破綻を恐れ手が出せないでいる // 国連でさえもな).
Finally, is there a a limit on how long the clips can be in Anki? I've only tried a couple, but only a shorter one seemed to play properly in review. The others didn't play at all.
EDIT; it seems like no matter what I do, I can't for the life of me get the desks to actually play the audio. I've tried both Anki and Mnemosyne, and while the preview plays in Anki when you add it, it just won't play at all during the reviews (not even partly like before with the Mononoke ones).
EDIT 2; nevermind, for some unknown reason it seems to have started working in Anki. I thought it was because I started renaming files, but then the other Japanese-named files started working too.