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| Xezzyl Newbie United States Joined 3775 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 25 08 May 2015 at 2:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I love language learning and I also like programming so I thought I would ask you guys
what kind of app/website/chrome extension you would want to use for language learning that doesn't yet exist. I want to make something that's fun and easy to use that people would find useful for learning languages. If you could have one app that doesn't currently exist that would help make language learning way more fun and enjoyable for you, what would that app be? What are some apps or websites that you use for language learning right now that you wish were better? How would you want them to be improved? If anyone has any good ideas and a lot of people want something to be made, I'll start working on it and update you guys on the progress. I'll make sure the code is open source and I'll make the app completely free. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7001 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 25 08 May 2015 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I like something with parallel texts and audio.
If an app could put together parallel texts, that would be nice. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Xezzyl Newbie United States Joined 3775 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 25 08 May 2015 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I guess there would have to be a way to get the parallel texts and audio. Maybe users can generate the text and audio on their own somehow? Maybe users can get native material and then type the translation and record themselves. They can probably also have native speakers correct their translations and pronunciation by providing a native version. Then the corrected version can be archived and future language learners can use the correct parallel text with native audio to learn. Do you think that would be a good idea? Or did you have something else in mind? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tangleweeds Groupie United States Joined 3371 days ago 70 posts - 105 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Irish, French | Message 4 of 25 08 May 2015 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'd like software that could take audio files, and allow you to select and loop areas
(sentences, phrases) one does when studying, do things like slow them down if necessary, and (most important of all) allows you to record yourself speaking and compare your speech to the selected part of recording. I currently do this inside Anki, but that has all the overhead of audio editing just to get the audio into Anki to start with. I can also do it in Audacity but it's pretty cumbersome. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7034 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 5 of 25 08 May 2015 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Virtual Goldlist... don't know if it would work the same though...
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4464 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 6 of 25 08 May 2015 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Maybe more/better TTS apps for ''rare'' languages.
We got TTS for Hindi and Vietnamese, but where's TTS for Bengali? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5116 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 25 08 May 2015 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
There are a couple of free text aligners available. For example, LF Aligner. If you're interested in generating monolingual audiobooks with speech synthesis, check out the free Tobi Windows app, which allows you to generate ePub3 audio books that you listen to with the free Menestrello app and many other ePub3 apps. (If you want to give Toby a try, check out this post about adding additional TTS voices to Windows 7/8.) @Xezzyl: Tobi has a horrible UI that requires users to select each book chapter manually. However, the developers also offer a DAISY Pipeline for automatic ebook generation. Maybe you could use it to generate audiobooks.
VLC allows you to loop audio segments on the fly. You can also slow down and speed up audio playback. (Select View > Advanced controls & View > Status Bar.) @Xezzyl: VLC has a libVLC API that you might be able to use for playing looped audio segments.
Goldlists can be easily simulated with any SRS program. Edited by Doitsujin on 08 May 2015 at 12:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5003 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 25 08 May 2015 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I also think something like this would be useful. In a thread about accent reduction, there was discussion of using a "Speech analyser" program to analyse pitch/intonation, and from what I've read in phonetics books, you also get software that can represent things like vowel quality from recordings. Rhythm and stress could be analysed from the waveform and its amplitudes. Maybe all this could be combined into something that helps a learner visualise various aspects of their prosody and pronunciation and compare to recordings of native speakers. It would probably be difficult and error-prone to create software that actually does comparisons and tells the learner what they are doing wrong and how to fix it, but maybe something that simply gives some visualisations that users could then compare and judge for themselves is realistic. EDIT: I've looked on the Speech Analyzer website and it looks like it might well already do some or all of what I've described. If I have some time this weekend I'll play around with it a bit and see exactly what it does and doesn't do. It seems more aimed towards linguists, but the site does also specifically mention features for learners wanting to work on pronunciation. Edited by garyb on 08 May 2015 at 1:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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