I thought about this today.

I often go for a walk in the park for about and hour and put some Listening Material into my MP3 player to pratice shadowing.

I am planning on getting a minicomputer (PANDORA) soon, and I had the thought, what if I had a Listening Only Anki deck for my walks.

I imagine this: The Deck would speak the Target Language to you on the Question side, then you would selected "Answer" (I also imagine some kind of usb control switch I can hold in my hand).

The Answer Side would speak the English to you and you could 1,2,3 or 4 it.

You could go the other way as well.

It's kind of like a Pimsleur approach, with better SRS-ing and you put what you want into it.

I like the idea cause I although I still do about an Hour on my computer everyday with Anki, I want to do more, I just get sick of staring at the screen after a while.

I am unaware if there is somthing similar to this but, what do you think of this?

Issue would be getting sentences with Audio in both languages I guess, but Smart fm and book2 would be a decent start.

http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/INDEX.HTM

You can record your own English audio, so all you really need is Japanese audio. I think you can even record from directly within anki.
Also, you could possible rig up some speech recognition on the computer, so you can control anki without having to touch it.

I would have no idea how to set up a speach reconition, but recording english straight into anki would solve alot.

This sounds like a very promising idea. I would try to ditch the idea of English though, too much wasted time listening to English.

Here's how I would approach this.

Take a podcast as the example. Chop it up into sentences, phrases, whatever size of material is appropriate for your level. Put it into your audio deck. Now SRS it with the emphasis not so much on understanding at first, but at mimicking. I think this is a very underrated skill, being able to hear something and mimic it back accurately.

Then, when you have time, sit down with a transcript of the audio and study it for understanding. As you've already thoroughly become accustomed to the sounds, internalizing it should be a breeze. (Of course, you could do the understanding bit beforehand.)

Hmm. So you would just have it read to you in the Tarket, with no answer on the answer side? And then grade yourself on how well you could mimick it.

I could see that-since I often listen to files where I dont understand everything fully anyways.

But having the english on the answer side you could do both right? and if you got it right away, just hit the button and move on to the next. Two birds....

Of course! This is just a matter of time management. Do you want to spend that time recording the English (and later listening to it; although as you say, it's easily skipped when unnecessary) or spend that time on adding more Japanese.

I tend to go the route of putting as little as I can get away with in the answer field to save time, and later add readings or definitions if they don't stick.

I do think that this is quibbling, however, and that this is a great idea (using English, or not).

I think you're right. I'm all about time managment.

(Hence, I waste time stating the unnecessary on forums...).

I just hope I can drum up some interest/input here...

yeah I'd thought of doing the same thing for commuting -- I was going to use core2k and use some text-to-speech software to make mp3s from the english sentence text (pronunciation doesn't have to be perfect as it's just to check comprehension of the japanese audio) and run it on the zaurus, which has a few external keys so it can be used with the lid closed