Interesting... you'd think I'd be able to definitively say for myself whether iKnow is slow, but I guess I'm just focused on speaking for those sentences, I never really thought about it. Taking dictation with Misaki at high speed for a while makes me think everything sounds kind of slow, too. ;p
The reasons I'd prefer 'shadowing' to be outside the SRS, aside from the extemporaneous on-the-fly possibilities, is because that way I could have longer passages to shadow and try to mirror as I listen, rather than waiting for it to play then repeating. I guess this is a major idea of shadowing in the first place, perhaps to 'speed up' one's ability to follow speech, but another concept I'm interested in, very speculatively, is enhancing my ability to listen and subvocalize at the same time (not necessarily subvocalizing what's currently being heard)--studies on phonological loops and articulatory rehearsal show that verbal interference disrupts the process, but it's also a skill you develop over time mostly from internalizing the language so that you're processing multiple layers more easily, so I'm hoping to work out specific ways to enhance this aspect of working memory in controlled ways within Anki, in addition to non-SRS stuff.
As for subs2srs, though I think we've already got the extemporaneous bits covered as I rambled about to Nukemarine in that thread, I think it'll be a little while before there's a structure in place to to establish foundational shadowing collections based on native media, though of course that's a primary interest I have, in addition to the fact that subs2srs-mediated sources are what I'll soon be using to create new speaking materials.
The reasons I'd prefer 'shadowing' to be outside the SRS, aside from the extemporaneous on-the-fly possibilities, is because that way I could have longer passages to shadow and try to mirror as I listen, rather than waiting for it to play then repeating. I guess this is a major idea of shadowing in the first place, perhaps to 'speed up' one's ability to follow speech, but another concept I'm interested in, very speculatively, is enhancing my ability to listen and subvocalize at the same time (not necessarily subvocalizing what's currently being heard)--studies on phonological loops and articulatory rehearsal show that verbal interference disrupts the process, but it's also a skill you develop over time mostly from internalizing the language so that you're processing multiple layers more easily, so I'm hoping to work out specific ways to enhance this aspect of working memory in controlled ways within Anki, in addition to non-SRS stuff.
As for subs2srs, though I think we've already got the extemporaneous bits covered as I rambled about to Nukemarine in that thread, I think it'll be a little while before there's a structure in place to to establish foundational shadowing collections based on native media, though of course that's a primary interest I have, in addition to the fact that subs2srs-mediated sources are what I'll soon be using to create new speaking materials.
Edited: 2009-02-18, 4:32 pm