Recently I've been using Vocab only Anki decks to try to get a lot of vocab learnt. And it seems to be working... But I've been wanting to just passively listen to a vocab list (with music background) on my bus ride to and from work, (I did it with the audio from the Unicom JLPT 4/3 books and it seems to work) so I knocked together a quick program that will take your exported Anki Vocab deck file and take the native audio from it and pair it with a TTS audio sample and string them all into a set of MP3s.
This seems to work because the importiant thing, the Japanese words are spoken by a native, and only the lesser thing is TTS generated.

A screenshot is here



and you can download a sample file here:
http://www.multiupload.com/QPSKBMBPAJ

The sample file contains 2 files: 1: the raw mp3 that is produced by the tool, and 2: A mixed version with a music background.

It will go through a 7000 card deck in about 40 minutes, producing 1 big mp3, or about 15 smaller ones (you can choose sizing)

It's only a working prototype at the moment, and I don't really want to waste time polishing it for enduser consumption, but if enough people are interested in this I'll finish off developing it and release it. -But- if you'd just like the mp3s (40 5ish minute files) of a JLPT 4/3/2 vocab deck I can upload that somewhere instead.

Note the tool requires you have (good) TTS voices installed (and a Windows box)

Quite cool! Is there any way to use this to simply cut up a series of the natural audio samples (or rather, they're already cut, just need them collected to a folder from a txt list or whatnot), not just from (I'm presuming smart.fm?), but from Breen's site, per our inquiries here? http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid80938

Ohh, I see, it's working from an Anki vocabulary deck. I was thinking it magically found and cut up smart.fm audio before mixing into a single track, and was thus thinking it could be used for other sources. ;p

Anyone remember Audio Lesson Studio? A similar concept, but lacks the background music feature.

cb4960 Wrote:Anyone remember Audio Lesson Studio? A similar concept, but lacks the background music feature.

Personally I remembered it, but I was focused on spinning this comment innocently into another request for that jdict thing. ;p

cb4960 Wrote:Anyone remember Audio Lesson Studio? A similar concept, but lacks the background music feature.

Nice. I wish I'd have seen that sooner! Downloaded!

edit: I'm not seeing all the installed voices on this Win7 x64 box. I ran into the same issue when coding the vocab prog above. I solved the issue by compiling for x86 instead of AnyCPU.. guessing the voices are 32bit and the MS voice I'm seeing is 64bit and compiling for x86 specifically seems to make everything happy... Any chance you could upload an x86 compiled exe ??

mistamark Wrote:

cb4960 Wrote:Anyone remember Audio Lesson Studio? A similar concept, but lacks the background music feature.

Nice. I wish I'd have seen that sooner! Downloaded!

edit: I'm not seeing all the installed voices on this Win7 x64 box. I ran into the same issue when coding the vocab prog above. I solved the issue by compiling for x86 instead of AnyCPU.. guessing the voices are 32bit and the MS voice I'm seeing is 64bit and compiling for x86 specifically seems to make everything happy... Any chance you could upload an x86 compiled exe ??

Weird issue. I compiled it for an x86 target. Give it a shot:
[url=http://www.mediafire.com/?2mmjnihyeym][/url]

cb4960 Wrote:

mistamark Wrote:

cb4960 Wrote:Anyone remember Audio Lesson Studio? A similar concept, but lacks the background music feature.

Nice. I wish I'd have seen that sooner! Downloaded!

edit: I'm not seeing all the installed voices on this Win7 x64 box. I ran into the same issue when coding the vocab prog above. I solved the issue by compiling for x86 instead of AnyCPU.. guessing the voices are 32bit and the MS voice I'm seeing is 64bit and compiling for x86 specifically seems to make everything happy... Any chance you could upload an x86 compiled exe ??

Weird issue. I compiled it for an x86 target. Give it a shot:
[url=http://www.mediafire.com/?2mmjnihyeym][/url]

That did the job. Thanks!
It's a strange issue, thankfully an easy fix though!