A moment of appreciation for the number of people and hours involved in adding audio to the dictionary... ;p

http://blogs.japanesepod101.com/blog/200...-must-hear

"Furthermore there were technological issues, coordination issues and the holiday season standing in our way, but last November we started.

And here’s what it took to get it done:

* 8 voice actors (taking shifts) going at it 5+ hours a day
* 3 audio engineers editing 10 hours a day on 2 continents
* The technology team working in the US, Japan, and Germany
* Mr. Breen himself joining us in the trenches from Australia, as he rolled up his sleeves to code.
* The support of the entire JapanesePod101.com team
* And probably a lot more people working behind the scenes

This project was a beast! But, 5 months later EVERY entry in EDICT has an audio clip!"

They go on to refer to the ever-growing # of entries and mention that it would help if you report when there isn't audio for a word, so perhaps we should start doing that.

I didn't realize anyone was working on this project, that's actually pretty effing amazing. Who funded such a massive undertaking? I know those voice actors had to have been getting paid, right?

Very cool!! Where are we meant to report missing audio? The first word I tried, bougyo, was missing.

thekonfuzed Wrote:Very cool!! Where are we meant to report missing audio? The first word I tried, bougyo, was missing.

Haha, I don't even see a link for reporting missing audio. Guess they don't care?? ;p Or maybe they get notifications for each word automatically when that message plays?

@kendo - I was wondering about their 'profit model' as well. Must be tied to the exposure and 'listen to lesson for this word' links? They must've decided to just wait or they have some other means, if they intend to add more audio (could end up like smart.fm's previous intentions to bring the Core up to 10000).

Is there a way to download these audio clips en masse? Apologies if this has already been covered in another thread.

cb4960 Wrote:Is there a way to download these audio clips en masse? Apologies if this has already been covered in another thread.

This is what we have so far: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4308

ruiner Wrote:

cb4960 Wrote:Is there a way to download these audio clips en masse? Apologies if this has already been covered in another thread.

This is what we have so far: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4308

That about covers it. Thanks!

cb4960 Wrote:

ruiner Wrote:

cb4960 Wrote:Is there a way to download these audio clips en masse? Apologies if this has already been covered in another thread.

This is what we have so far: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4308

That about covers it. Thanks!

It would be super cool if someone could make mistamark's program work for txt files where the kanji/kana are in Rikaichan format or something. Would save me the trouble of rearranging stuff when copy/pasting into a separate txt file. Or perhaps something that uses the txt file Rikaichan makes when saving entries to txt?

Though there's still the painstaking process of importing the words + definitions into Anki and then adding the audio. Sigh. Wish I was a master programmer.

I know there was mention of Anki plugins on that other thread. I wonder if something similar to the Pinyin Toolkit (Chinese) could be made for Japanese, leveraging JPod101's work here. Could add a nice punch to the sentence method. I've read both these threads through but may have missed it if this functionality is already available.