emuboy Posted November 28, 2017 at 06:34 AM Report Posted November 28, 2017 at 06:34 AM Hi, I am looking for an app that functions similarly to WorkAudioBook to practice listening to dialogues. I want to be able to split the dialogue up into sentences and then repeat it sentence-by-sentence until I understand it. I saw Smart Repeater mentioned in another thread but it seems to be for iphones/ipads, which I don't use. Quote
mlescano Posted November 30, 2017 at 02:06 AM Report Posted November 30, 2017 at 02:06 AM Hi! I was looking for the same thing, but came up empty. I ended up installing Windows 10 in Bootcamp just for WorkAudioBook and LaMP player. Windows 10 does not force you to activate the install, so it's basically shareware. Quote
lechuan Posted November 30, 2017 at 04:46 AM Report Posted November 30, 2017 at 04:46 AM I use AnyTune for Mac OS. It's targeted at musicians, but provides pitch and speed adjustment, looping, etc. Quote
imron Posted December 1, 2017 at 01:21 AM Report Posted December 1, 2017 at 01:21 AM How much would you be prepared to pay for such a piece of software? 2 Quote
emuboy Posted December 1, 2017 at 01:28 AM Author Report Posted December 1, 2017 at 01:28 AM Nice, I'm making do with Audacity right now. Just highlight the part you want and repeat it over and over with space bar lol. @imron Whatever is reasonable for an unemployed student! Quote
艾墨本 Posted December 1, 2017 at 01:19 PM Report Posted December 1, 2017 at 01:19 PM 11 hours ago, imron said: How much would you be prepared to pay for such a piece of software? Depends on how well it works and how many features it includes (an auto-transcribe or something would be cool and anything that helps automate and simplify the process of studying with audio). 5-15 USD As an added bonus, since it wouldn't be Chinese specific, you have a much bigger market. Quote
imron Posted December 1, 2017 at 03:05 PM Report Posted December 1, 2017 at 03:05 PM I just had a quick play around with some audio programming on macos and it's probably not too difficult to detect silences and allow users to play and repeat everything between the silences. That'd be the barebones proof of concept I could put together. Other things like subtitles and Anki exporting and whatnot would have to come later depending on whether or it did any well. Auto-transcribing is possible, but it would require separate, ongoing payments because all the companies providing this to any level of accuracy charge based on usage - it's pretty cheap though maybe $0.03/minute and would support multiple languages (including Mandarin). Quote
New Members Steep Posted March 31, 2020 at 11:57 PM New Members Report Posted March 31, 2020 at 11:57 PM imron, have you pursued this at all since? I'm both a programmer and someone who would pay for this. 1 Quote
imron Posted April 1, 2020 at 10:02 AM Report Posted April 1, 2020 at 10:02 AM Not beyond purchasing a domain name and playing around with a simple prototype. Unfortunately I don’t have the time at the moment to do much more. Quote
philwhite Posted April 2, 2020 at 09:21 AM Report Posted April 2, 2020 at 09:21 AM I have been auto-transcribing audio sources and creating Anki decks automatically for several months. Does anyone want to post links to some freely available audio resources and I'll see if I can create and upload some decks to AnkiWeb and share the links here. Clear speech without overlapping speakers works better and only one language. 2 Quote
pon00050 Posted April 6, 2022 at 01:51 PM Report Posted April 6, 2022 at 01:51 PM @philwhite I want to know what your process for auto-transcribing and auto-creating looks like. Could you please elaborate? Quote
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