This topic may have been covered before, so sorry if I'm beating a dead horse.
I am using the Genki text books for my Japanese class at my college. Instead of using the CDs, my college has the sound files on a website in mp3 format. What I'd like to do is take the Vocab list sound file, and cut it up into individual words, so I can input them in with my flashcards in Anki. Anyone know an efficient way of doing this? All I can think of now is importing the mp3 into Audacity, cutting out and saving each sound bite, one by one --which would probably take a ridiculously long time.
Any suggestions?
BTW, I'm using Windows XP.
Last edited by strugglebunny (2009 January 16, 8:25 am)
Tobberoth
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You DO know that you should enter sentences into Anki, not single words... right?
Anyway, the best program IMO for splitting audio is Audacity. There's really no other way to cut audio (unless you want some magical program which can understand by itself where a word starts and ends... unfortunately, there is no such thing.)
Last edited by Tobberoth (2009 January 16, 8:27 am)
Tourne
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I don't know the Genki Vocab list, but I'm assuming its just a list of words or phrases, spoken one after the other, with a gap in between each item? If so, I would think you could use something like TotalRecorder to automatically split the file into chunks, based on where the gaps are. http://www.totalrecorder.com/splitting& … les.htm#AS
TR has an option to split "if the sound level does not exceed x% for y seconds". I've used this successfully myself to automatically split a downloaded radio program into discrete tracks. Depending on how long the gaps between words are, it might take a bit of fiddling with the settings to get it right, but I should think it would give you a good start at least.
Last edited by Tourne (2009 January 16, 9:00 am)
