And furthermore, Ding Laboratories is a wicked, massively—oh hi slattery!
Thanks for creating your tool in the first place and your write-up about Transcriber. It was exactly what I was looking for at the time and gave us plenty of ideas (though sadly the interactive audiobook thing hasn't taken off in terms of creating materials).
I never used your online tool because I got the impression that I had to upload materials to read them with your tool? Which is why I asked balloonguy who provided something both local and remote.
Now that I look at the Desktop Player, I see that it also uses the browser? If so, I suppose my concerns about extensions and customizability are moot. When I first read the description, I saw the mp3-only bit and something about downloading a Java program and I suppose I imagined some standalone with a special format or somesuch.
A conversion tool would be a lovely addition. I recall troubling other forum members in the past about the ability to convert .trs files so that they could be used in subs2srs to make cards.
I also really think an arrangement of the translation other than parallel to the original would be good. I am likely in the minority since many seem satisfied with parallel texts, but in my mind that's only because the original methods were devised without tools that could allow other means of presenting translations, such as through pop-ups (e.g. Google Translate allows you to see the original text with a mouseover, I think being able to view the translated text in the same way would be great, though perhaps triggered by something else in order to prevent conflicts with Rikaichan). Edit: Oh, I see that d hotkey for Google, perhaps that could be modified so it brings up the line from the English transcript instead?
At any rate, now I seem to be faced with two programs with identical functionalities to use with a still nascent learning method that needs to be promoted. What am I to do? ^_^ Guess now I have to recommend both. Sigh. So much work. Everyone needs to stop coming up with great tools for us learners.
Edit 3: The ‘files of type’ dialogue has MP3/OGG, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't play .ogg, so.
I initially noted that this program doesn't support as many formats are balloonguy's tool, but I'm getting the feeling you're going for something specific by keeping the formats narrow? Or is it already on the to-do list.
Edit: Ohhh, thought of something good for either tool: Bookmarks! Perhaps some kind of combination with cb4960's
JNovel Formatter, which turns full stops (。) into bookmark points.
Edited: 2011-02-10, 11:19 pm
