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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 57 of 147 13 November 2014 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
I did a similar thing to turn my Mandarin Pimsleur into anki cards, I find it is easier to highlight the audio you want in audacity, then "export selection" as MP3 and give the file name the same name as the phrase your learning. The other benefit is you can use the MP3 files outside of ANKI as well. Using the "export selection" method I also extracted all the numbers from 1-100 from a you tube video and created my own CD for the car. Counts 1-100 then I randomly scattered the files through the rest of the CD so I could translate the numbers when I hear it. I burn a new CD every couple of weeks so I get different numbers. Same as ANKI, but I don't have to press any buttons when I'm driving. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 58 of 147 14 November 2014 at 1:14am | IP Logged | |||||
That makes a lot of sense. And it suggests a whole lot of additional useful things to do. Thanks for that. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 59 of 147 14 November 2014 at 3:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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Btw, a shortcut for exporting audio from Audacity is using labels. Highlight the portion you want to export then press Ctrl+B. Type the name you want for that chunk of audio then highlight the next chunk and repeat until everything you want is labeled. Afterwards, go to "Export Multiple Files" (Ctrl+Shift+L) and choose "Divide files by label" (or something along those lines). Each file will be exported using the label as the filename. I broke up the Princeton Russian course this way and it's much faster than doing it one by one.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 60 of 147 14 November 2014 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's a really nice trick. Thank you. Benchmark: Sprachprofi's progress I'm going to provide some progress numbers in a moment, but first I want to quote from Sprachprofi's subs2srs results. These cover roughly her first 30 hours of Anki reviews, I think:
My three week report In the last 21 days, I've done 922 Anki reps in 6 hours, plus another 5 or so hours of subtitle aligning, an hour or so of grammar study, and a bunch of hours of playing TV in the background. I've learned 202 cards, and suspended 160. I'm currently learning 15 new cards per day, and spending roughly 25 minutes/day on reviews. By media source: - Y Tu Mamá También: 89 cards learned, 150 suspended - Avatar: 113 cards learned, 10 suspended At my current rate, it would take me 12 more weeks to reach Sprachprofi's total of 1,500 cards. Here's what I have available: - Avatar episodes 1&2: 483 cards. - Avatar episodes 3&4: Inaccurate subtitles. - Avatar episodes 5&6: Accurate subtitles, not yet aligned. - Avatar episodes 7&8: Inaccurate subtitles. - Avatar episodes 9&10: Accurate subtitles, not yet aligned. This should be enough to get me near 1,500 cards, and I still have 30 more Avatar episodes to check (plus a season of Korra). So I have plenty of material on a single subject. Subjectively, how does it feel? - Syllables and word boundaries are generally quite sharp, except in fast speech. - I can often hear words and phrases from my cards when they appear elsewhere. - I can definitely understand some new stuff more complicated than Sprachprofi's 450-card-level examples. - Spanish verbs are starting to "click". I naturally understand some sentences without pronouns, imperfect verbs, clitic pronouns and so on. It's spotty, but it feels like it's working. - I need a lot more vocabulary. - Watching previously unseen episodes is interesting, and I pick up some stuff. - Watching unseen episodes with bilingual subtitles is already very useful. - When watching episodes I've studied, I can understand well over half the dialog naturally, directly in Spanish. Overall, I'm quite happy. For 6 hours of Anki reps (officially, maybe as much as 9 unofficially), I've made pretty amazing progress. If you ultimately want to learn a language by sitting on the couch watching TV, this method appears to be considerably more efficient than an Assimil-only approach. The major advantages seem to come from (1) the intensive listening practice, (2) the SRS review schedule, and (3) the very focused, narrow content. I'll try to post some examples like Sprachprofi's later on, if I get a minute. Edited by emk on 14 November 2014 at 1:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 61 of 147 15 November 2014 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
I was trying to do "Duel Language" subtitles like you did.
I stupidly thought you were doing it with Sub Edit, not subs2srs. However there is a way to do this easily in Sub Edit, and you can have multiple languages (3-4 if you wanted). Also it generates a single subtitle file. To do this in Sub Edit you do the following. 1) Open L1 file. 2) Click Tools->Append Subtitle... 3) Select L2 file 4) If the second file is already in synch with the video just click OK. This will append the second language to the bottom of the file, but keep the timings so it runs concurrently. 4.a) Repeat if you want more than 2 languages 5) Change the format to Sub Station Alpha 6) Right Click on the subtitles and select "Sub Station Alpha Styles" 7) Setup two different styles, colours etc for L1 & L2. You can position them at in 9 different places, with 4 different colours, fonts, etc. You can export the styles to a file so that you've always got them. 8) Return to main screen and set the L1 style to the L1 half of the subtitles, and set L2 style to the L2 part. 9) Save as a .ssa file and play in VLC or other media player. The advantages of this is you can have multiple languages, position them together or separately on the screen, changes fonts, font sizes, margins, etc. You can also automatically translate with Sub Edit and append the translation and do the above to watch concurrently. Which keeps the same times and durations so it is in synch already. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stefan Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4328 days ago 22 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC1 Studies: German | Message 62 of 147 16 November 2014 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I really like the idea and I'm sure it will improve your listening comprehension.
Yesterday I spent the whole day trying to launch subs2srs on my Mac. Hard work but I finally managed to do it by combining Crossover with .NET 3.5 SP1 and a WinXP-bottle. Then I discovered the most difficult part - finding material! I'm fluent in English and the anime I've watched usually have burnt in subtitles so I've never really bothered with it before. First I tried Big Bang Theory but none of the subtitles matched regardless of how much time I spent trying to sync them (probably due to different commercial cuts). Then I tried Scrubs and found a synced subtitle but it wasn't even close to what they actually said. I guess that's a common problem when they write the subtitles first and then dub it. Tomorrow I'll try with Spirited Away because a friend told me he has a copy with audio and subtitles in both languages. I'm sure they'll sync but the question is how well the dubbed audio matches the subtitles. Maybe it would be a good idea to aim for native material with subtitles for people hard of hearing. Anyway.. Since several of us seem to be spending hours and hours to create decks - maybe it would be a wise idea to encourage everyone to share them. The Wiki includes some but there are lots of dead links (wish we had mirrors). For example, I know I'd really appreciate the Die Welle-deck sabotai mentioned on the other page. Maybe someone would be interested in Spirited Away once I've completed it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 63 of 147 16 November 2014 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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rdearman: Yeah, there are a couple of different ways to get bilingual subtitles working in high-end video players. In my case, however, the challenge is figuring out how to stream video to a Chromecast using Videostream.
Which brings us to this weekend's project. A little programming interlude The "secret sauce" of subs2srs is its ability to line up subtitles that don't quite match:
I wrote a library and command-line tool in Rust (Rust source code here) that can merge two *.srt files into one: 
These subtitles can be used in a wide variety of players, including VLC: 
…and Videostream: 
The decision to put both languages at the bottom of the screen is deliberate: This allows my eyes to skip quickly back and forth between the two languages. Videostream has a nice "skip back 30 seconds" button as well, which could be very useful for making multiple passes through a tricky conversation: 
Some other things I'd like to try someday Now that I have a general-purpose subtitle aligner, I can imagine some other fun projects for a future day: - Automatically generate bilingual MCD cards from subtitles, focusing on inflections, ser/estar, por/para, etc. - Generate MP3 files that play a line of L2 dialog, the same line in L1, and then L2 again, then move on. - A command-line clone of subs2srs? But for now, I have Anki cards to review, and real work to get done this weekend. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4848 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 64 of 147 17 November 2014 at 4:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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emk and anybody else doing this, I have a question for you all.
With your subs2srs decks, do you have any cards where the subtitles do not match the audio? Perhaps one word is different, or the entire line is different from the audio. What do you do with such cards? Do you: (a) Delete them right away, or (b) Depending on the card, keep them and use the subtitles as hints to the audio? The reason I ask is that I have some DVDs that I really like, that also come with Japanese and/or Portuguese subtitles. The problem is that, most of the time, the subtitles don't match the audio. A search on some of the subtitle websites mentioned above (OpenSubtitles.org, etc.) didn't find any files with subtitles that match the audio verbatim. (In fact, it seems like they just ripped the subtitles from the DVD and posted them up there.) I like those DVDs and would like to use them, if possible, for subs2srs, hence the question. It would be cool to have 3,000 cards of natural conversation with audio, but if 95% of them are going to be deleted, that leaves 150. Is that enough to understand a movie or a TV show? Edited by kujichagulia on 17 November 2014 at 4:18am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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