Hello,

Audio Lesson Studio allows you to create simple, user-defined, .mp3 audio lessons that may be used as an aid for learning languages or just about anything else - use your imagination! Audio can be based on existing media or automatically generated using Text-To-Speech.

Download Audio Lesson Studio via MediaFire

Current Version: 1.1

(You will need to have the .Net Framework 3.5 installed.)

Have Fun!
cb4960

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Screenshot of the user interface:



Sample Lessons (MediaFire links):

(2013 Nov 28, links dead, will re-upload soon)

iKnow Core 6000 in P1msl3ur format:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

iKnow Core 6000 in Shadow Twice format:
iKnow Core 6000 01

Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo:
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo Shadow Twice Format

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Tip: Use the output of subs2srs as the input to Audio Lesson Studio.

You might also want to check out similar programs mentioned in this thread.

I was wondering something about the Pimsleur style. I'm assuming it takes into account the time between listening sessions, in the case of Pimsleur tapes which is 23:30 hours (half hour lessons).

So, if an audio is in it's 1 hour and 5 hour repetition it'll show up on the next two days before it gets to it's one day repetition. Basically, you'll have lots of repeating from the previous day before you get to new material.

Anyway, going to try out this program and make some practice audio for the Japanese military on base.

**Edit**

I don't think the audio lesson program needs to do the spacing calculations. I'm just wondering if a program can take something like tab separated file then reproduce the Pimsleur spaced repetition based on
A: Length of single line from lessons (assuming 10 seconds)
B: Total length of lesson (example would be 30 minutes)
C: Time between lessons (example would be once a day).

Now, that means a line could be repeated 9 times before it hits the 60 day spacing. That's 90 seconds. So in a month's time of 30 minute lessons, that could mean 5400 lines of dialogue of which 600 to 1000 lines are unique.

When I made a psuedo version of this spacing, I noticed that dialogue of about 3 to 4 lines were put together in the spacing. This seems useful.

Now, I wouldn't use it personally, but there are some Japanese and English guys on base that can find this very useful.

Wow! I can't believe my eyes!

Okay, I've decided what to use this for, a strategy to practice output in isolation that I've toyed around with for a while. Since I can't chain groups of cards in Anki, I'm going to use this software to put into practice 'imaginary conversations' (Think: a novel called The Invention of Morel).

Basically, just take slices of dialogue from your favourite shows (preferably you've already made decks in subs2srs and studied them), pick a character to role-play their side of the conversation--either because you want to emulate them, or because they're talking in a situation you might expect to be in, and create a Pimsleur-style audio file, with gaps for your responses to context/conversational cues.

I imagine having a vast repertoire of dialogues that you've mastered, of varying lengths and scenarios, where the goal is to progress further and further to extemporaneous composition of output.

This is probably only interesting to antisocial/shy ppl like me.

I would have preferred to create chains of cards where Question/Answer is call and response, in the fixed order of the dialogue, but ah well. Edit: I mean, I'll probably still do that, but obviously w/o the fixed order, and only to prime myself for the lengthier dialogue.

I think the one-sided roleplaying based on contexts of favourite media + protracted length is what has been missing from similar production-style cues.

Looks like a lot of potential here. I tried the Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo mp3 and seems kinda cool.

I would imagine this would be pretty sweet with KO2001. I think I remember someone saying they had added the sound files to the spread sheets that were floating around.

I liked so much.Thank you.

That is awesome. Thanks for bringing that old thread back. I have a 2 hours commute and this will definitely make it more productive at my level.

And cb4960, huge thanks for making all those tools. Makes language learning process much easier.

I know this thread is pretty old, but...

Is there a way to use this program on a mac? Sorry to not be more computer savvy.

I checked out that core example using the pimsleur format and it's exactly what I'm looking for. Has anyone here made more mp3s in that format, ideally with the core words? Are there anymore posted on these forums?

Thanks!

prettyfunbird Wrote:I know this thread is pretty old, but...

Is there a way to use this program on a mac? Sorry to not be more computer savvy.

I checked out that core example using the pimsleur format and it's exactly what I'm looking for. Has anyone here made more mp3s in that format, ideally with the core words? Are there anymore posted on these forums?

Thanks!

This program is for Windows only. However, I suppose that I could post more samples from the Core series in Pimsleur format. I'll be away from my primary computer for a few weeks though, so you'll have to wait a bit.

For those interested, I added Pimsleur-style lessons for all 4000 lines in the iKnow Core 6000 series. See first post.

i'll try this out shortly (as soon as i have miaki). gonna do words instead of sentences though.

it keeps crashing on me. tried on a machine with win7, then one running on win xp.

http://s7.directupload.net/images/120223/6v77r24l.jpg

what can i do?

kiokuwarui Wrote:it keeps crashing on me. tried on a machine with win7, then one running on win xp.

http://s7.directupload.net/images/120223/6v77r24l.jpg

what can i do?

Please try the following version:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4b7375qixf8zos8

I've added slightly more detail to the error message.

Edit: Also, you can email me the word list if you want and I can try to reproduce the issue on my end.

I used it on another PC now, again running on Win 7, and it worked flawlessly.
I cannot thank you enough, this is one great piece of work! I need to learn via tools like this, because I don't have much time to sit down to learn... but I can learn via audio almost all day long.
Thanks a lot

kiokuwarui Wrote:I used it on another PC now, again running on Win 7, and it worked flawlessly.
I cannot thank you enough, this is one great piece of work! I need to learn via tools like this, because I don't have much time to sit down to learn... but I can learn via audio almost all day long.
Thanks a lot

Glad it's working. Did you use the one in my post above or the one in the first post? Thanks.

I used your new version.
I also noticed that, despite setting "Pimsleur" as format, there is no repetition whatsoever, no SRS. It just works the list like VocabUlearn does.D
Did I miss some setting? I checked the help file, but couldn't find anything on this.

I hoped this was some sort of GradInt, with better UI

kiokuwarui Wrote:I used your new version.
I also noticed that, despite setting "Pimsleur" as format, there is no repetition whatsoever, no SRS. It just works the list like VocabUlearn does.D
Did I miss some setting? I checked the help file, but couldn't find anything on this.

I hoped this was some sort of GradInt, with better UI

Sorry to disappoint you. I suppose you could do something like export due words from Anki and import them into Audio Lesson Studio on a daily basis. Kind of a pain though.

kiokuwarui Wrote:I used your new version.
I also noticed that, despite setting "Pimsleur" as format, there is no repetition whatsoever, no SRS.

I may be wrong, but couldn't you just put some repetitions in your word list? or work with shorter word lists/sound files and then just replay them in a play list?
If you want full SRS maybe just use anki to play the sound files for you - if you are able to use Ankidroid you can set it up with cards that have
front = English sentence - and then have Ankidroid read it to you with its text to speech feature
back = Japanese Sentence Audio sound file, then silent sound file, then sentence again etc.

At least you've got the text there if you want to check it, which you won't have with pure audio. Using gestures on the screen makes it not so hard to combine SRS with perhaps some other activities.
Or if you want hands free usage, Ankidroid will help by marking each card wrong and automatically moving onto the next one. You can then just drop cards from your scheduled cycle of failed cards in various ways
- suspend cards you are sick of, as you go
- if you feel you know it well mark it easy to give it a break for a while +/- suspend your longer interval cards later in Anki desktop version.
- automatic leech after a certain number of repetitions (haven't tried this one - may not work)

I don't have an Android machine, but maybe setting ALS to just combine packs of 7 words, then work with those mini lists for a while could help.. they say, short-time memory is working most effectively with 7 new words at a time..

The problem is this, when I export something from ANKI, it looks like this:

Quote:ひっくり返す ひっくりかえす (v5s,vt) umkehren; umdrehen; umwerfen; umstürzen; niederwerfen; verkehrt herum aufstellen; auf den Kopf stellen; umschlagen [sound:4ea444cfcd8f3b0810faa804b728a68c.mp3]

Means, it's a butt load of work to make a file doable in ALS ... I'll have to find a solution for this

I'll see how I can put this to use. It's a great tool nevertheless, thank you very much Also, for taking the time to help me out!

Those Core 6000 Audio files look mighty helpful (either version, Pimsleur spacing or double shadowing). Unfortunately, I'm doing the Core 2000 deck.

Did anyone create similar files for Core 2000, by any chance? (I tried searching, didn't find it).

Stansfield123 Wrote:Those Core 6000 Audio files look mighty helpful (either version, Pimsleur spacing or double shadowing). Unfortunately, I'm doing the Core 2000 deck.

Did anyone create similar files for Core 2000, by any chance? (I tried searching, didn't find it).

The core 2k is part of the core 6k.

Ok, to be more precise, he really wants to know which file has most of the 2000 specific items in it. At least, that's what I want to know.

egoplant Wrote:

Stansfield123 Wrote:Those Core 6000 Audio files look mighty helpful (either version, Pimsleur spacing or double shadowing). Unfortunately, I'm doing the Core 2000 deck.

Did anyone create similar files for Core 2000, by any chance? (I tried searching, didn't find it).

The core 2k is part of the core 6k.

Yes, but the files in the OP have the 5000th to 6000th sentences in the Core 6k (at least I think those are the ones, they're definitely not the first 1000).

What I'd love to have is files just like those, but with the first 1000 or 2000 sentences.

The 12 iKnow Core 6000 lessons in the OP cover the 2000th to 6000th sentences. Just to clarify further, it does not include the Core 2000 sentences.

Hello Could you re-upload in pimsleur i know core 6000

Thanks in advance

Because this links are dead...