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05 June 2014 at 1:04am | IP Logged

I'd say it's much more beneficial to listen to some native content than to isolated words. And make sure you learn to predict the pronunciation as accurately as possible.

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09 June 2014 at 12:39am | IP Logged

chokofingrz wrote:

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.

Anki (on Windows) has an add-on called AwesomeTTS which is capable of automating a whole lot. I recently created a new deck making use of this add-on and find it very efficient, and easy if you know how to use Anki's features for customization.

It does a great job with the task of pulling audio straight from Google TTS.

The extent of the necessary code (which can be created by selecting some options and clicking a button) for your card template is this:

<tts service="google" voice="fr">{{Sentence}}</tts>

... "fr" being french, and "{{Sentence}}" being the name of my field where I enter my sentence for each card. AwesomeTTS knows the text from the field and pulls the audio from Google, and automagically it works fast.
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