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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6194 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 1 of 8 15 May 2009 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
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"I don’t know why nobody ever told me about Transcriber, but since it’s so useful for language learning, I thought I’d share it. Transcriber can help you with your: - reading - listening comprehension - vocabulary - overall fluency How does it do all of these things? Simply by linking together audio and text, making playback and navigation a cinch. Here’s a demonstration of simple playback of a ChinesePod lesson. You’ll see how the text has been brought to life, by being aligned with the audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCQd_KGLJ0I You can navigate to any section of the text and instantly hear the audio for that section. The magic comes when working with materials that you can’t fully understand. You can load an audio, paste in the transcript and start listening, aligning the text as you go. When you encounter a sentence that you don’t fully understand, you can isolate just the word or phrase that gives you trouble and focus your listening on that. Right now I’m using Transcriber to blast through some ChinesePod dialogues. ChinesePod provides exact transcripts with English translations underneath each paragraph. In Transcriber, I open the dialogue audio, paste in the transcript and process the new material in three passes: 1. Listen through, aligning each English sentence to the audio. 2. Take another, more careful pass, this time focusing on the Chinese text as I listen to the audio. When I hear new words that I don’t understand, I might segment the audio to listen carefully to those parts of the sentence a few times. Saying the phrases out loud, with the meaning in mind also helps. Then I might listen to the full sentence again, hopefully understanding it better. 3. Taking a final pass, I again focus on the Chinese text, ignoring the English. Hopefully I’ll have an easier time understanding the sentences. I may pause a couple times to listen or practice saying some new words, but after that it’s time to move on. Although Transcriber was not created with language learners in mind, there are many ways it can serve language learners. My little example just scratches the surface. What would a similar piece of software look like if it was designed with language learning in mind? Maybe you could instantly create flashcards with audio for a given sentence, etc." Transcriber can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OSX or Linux from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40021& package_id=51790 http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6194 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 3 of 8 15 May 2009 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you zocurtis for fixing the links. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6199 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 5 of 8 10 June 2009 at 7:34pm | IP Logged |
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I aligned the text and audio for a Korean dialogue, and that worked fine. But when I opened Transcriber again later, the Korean text doesn't display.
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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6194 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 6 of 8 10 June 2009 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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I tried it with Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic. There were no problems. I'll try Korean. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rmss Triglot Senior Member Spain spanish-only.coRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6499 days ago 234 posts - 248 votes 3 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, English, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 7 of 8 12 June 2009 at 12:44am | IP Logged |
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I'm a bit lost. You just paste the transcript? How is the correct part of the sentence aligned with the correct part of the audio? Does it go automatically???
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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6194 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 8 of 8 12 June 2009 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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No. It doesn't go automatically. But it's easy. This program is not for beginners who do not know the basic rules of the pronunciation of their target language. If you are in lower-intermediate level or even upper-beginner, you will benefit from it. If you know a podcast with transcript in your target language, you can align sentences correctly even if you don't know how to pronounce it. You will know that from the pauses between sentences. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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