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slattery
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dinglabs.com
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 Message 1 of 34
29 June 2010 at 5:05am | IP Logged 
Hi gang,

I've been creating a tool to give me "god-like" powers over content that I want to
listen to, while reading. This experiment was inspired by the L-R (Listening Reading)
method, naturally.

There's a little intro page about it: DingLabs.com

You can try it out, right here in your browser:
reader.dinglabs.com

I've started preparing content in Chinese (my focus), English, Spanish, and French:
library.dinglabs.com
Hopefully, others will be interested in contributing content in this format!

Apologies if it is still rough around the edges. I welcome your feedback, and hope to
make this a very useful tool for myself and others!
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budonoseito
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 Message 2 of 34
29 June 2010 at 2:36pm | IP Logged 
Congratulations and thank you for your effort on this. I am sure it will be useful for
many people.

A future enhancement of interfacing with Google Translate would be icing on the cake.
That way you can follow along in a bilingual format if you are still trying to learn
vocabulary.

Being in IT, I am used to receiving change requests not asking for them. If you need some
QA/beta testing, let me know.



johntm93
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 Message 3 of 34
29 June 2010 at 8:34pm | IP Logged 
This is a great idea...



Andy E
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 Message 4 of 34
29 June 2010 at 9:39pm | IP Logged 
Top, top man! I tinkered with a desktop L-R reader using parallel texts a couple of years ago but the text highlighting plus audio syncing remained on the wishlist.

Great stuff



slattery
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 Message 5 of 34
30 June 2010 at 7:07am | IP Logged 
budonoseito wrote:
A future enhancement of interfacing with Google Translate would be
icing on the cake.
That way you can follow along in a bilingual format if you are still trying to learn
vocabulary.


Thanks budonoseito, that's a cool idea. Google Translate is very slick. I've also
started using a pop-up dictionary plugin for my web browser. Since this is a web-app, it
can benefit from the wealth of dictionary plugins that are available.

I also want to experiment with displaying two transcripts at once, side by side. So you
can see the text in two languages, getting highlighted as the audio plays back. I would
be excited to see that! :)



OneEye
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 Message 6 of 34
30 June 2010 at 8:11am | IP Logged 
I'm floored by the potential this tool has. It could be absolutely huge.

budonoseito wrote:
That way you can follow along in a bilingual format if you are still trying to learn vocabulary.


I second this. This is key, I think, with the L-R method.
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johntm93
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 Message 7 of 34
30 June 2010 at 8:21am | IP Logged 
slattery wrote:
budonoseito wrote:
A future enhancement of interfacing with Google Translate would be
icing on the cake.
That way you can follow along in a bilingual format if you are still trying to learn
vocabulary.


Thanks budonoseito, that's a cool idea. Google Translate is very slick. I've also
started using a pop-up dictionary plugin for my web browser. Since this is a web-app, it
can benefit from the wealth of dictionary plugins that are available.

I also want to experiment with displaying two transcripts at once, side by side. So you
can see the text in two languages, getting highlighted as the audio plays back. I would
be excited to see that! :)
That would be a great idea. How long do you think it would be until that happens?
Also, is there anything this forum could do to help? I'm sure the people here could dig up tons of stuff for you.



Aineko
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 Message 8 of 34
30 June 2010 at 11:56am | IP Logged 
wow, this is great! symbiosis of this and lingq (in terms of pop-up dictionary and other
advantages of saving your vocab) would be a perfect learning tool! :)
slattery wrote:

I also want to experiment with displaying two transcripts at once, side by side. So you
can see the text in two languages, getting highlighted as the audio plays back. I would
be excited to see that! :)

something like naturalarabic.com? that would be even more amazing :).
as already said, potential of this is great. well done!


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