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soclydeza85
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01 June 2014 at 7:23pm | IP Logged 
I'm sure someone on here has thought of this already. The idea is to use a flashcard program (Quizlet, Anki, etc) that speaks the words on your vocab deck. Using Audacity (or another audio recording program) you can set it to record directly from your sound card. Hit record, then go to your deck, play the English (or native language) first, then flip the card to play the word in your target language. Do this throughout the deck and viola - you now have an audio file that goes through an entire deck of words that you created that you can practice in your car, during a walk, wherever. And you can manipulate the audio to fit your needs (i.e. say English word once, say TL word twice, after one round have it only say English and you have to repeat the word in your TL). It's like a homemade Pimsleur for your custom vocab lists and shouldn't take long to create one for each list.
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02 June 2014 at 2:13am | IP Logged 
You could easily automatize this, no need for manually going through the deck.
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soclydeza85
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02 June 2014 at 2:43am | IP Logged 
Oh, I just noticed Quizlet has a "play" feature that essentially does this. I assume Anki has something like it too. Oh well, I'm sure this can be of some other use to create your own audio.

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02 June 2014 at 3:13pm | IP Logged 
yes you can record in anki also
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04 June 2014 at 2:59am | IP Logged 
Just use Flashcards Deluxe.
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soclydeza85
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04 June 2014 at 2:40pm | IP Logged 
The whole point of the idea was to make tracks for yourself that you can put on a CD or ipod/mp3 player so you can drive/walk/whatever without having to fiddle with an app or program. I do value your suggestions though and I'll be sure to check out some of the other notecard programs to see what kind of features they have.
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04 June 2014 at 11:30pm | IP Logged 
To people who have already done it: is it more efficient to record your own pronunciations into your Anki deck, or to obtain and link mp3 files from Forvo or Google TTS?

I imagine I might save time by doing them myself, but with the risk of perpetuating any mistakes I've been making.
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04 June 2014 at 11:43pm | IP Logged 
Chances are that the Forvo recording are done by native speakers (=better pronunciation, no doubt).


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