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twilliability

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i make machines go beep, sometimes in front of a crowd. born 334 ppm, he/him.

built https://rss-parrot.net, and a few other things.

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My listening is very weak in Japanese, and I feel I need to train my ear to pick out words in Japanese speech, rather than determining it all to be white noise!

I’m trying the obvious tasks of listening to anime, listening exercises etc but I wondered if there was an app with exercises all like this, where you have to fill in the words you hear in a short clip?

(This is from “umi” but only does this exercise occasionally.)

twilliability ,
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1/ Would a tool heavily focused on listening, but without gap-filling excercises, also be interesting for you?

I built an app when I was intensively learning Mandarin that allowed me listen to real-life podcasts sentence by sentence, while viewing a transcript. This means easy repeating sentences (as opposed to 10-second jumps around), or optionally just listening without stopping at all.

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2/
It was interesting because I co-created the transcripts myself, by first feeding the audio theough Google T2S (which gives you per-word timestamps), then cutting the stream into sentence-shaped units in a custom UI by clicking around in the text, and finally getting the transcription cleaned up by a freelancer from Upwork.

This let me access real-life content that was above my level. Doing the preparation myself meant I got deeply familiarized with the content.

twilliability ,
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@elizabethtasker Oh, yes, I remember coming across that! I think I felt it was too clunky to be practical for me at the time. Do you find it useful for focused study?

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3/ So, it's a long shot, but maybe it'd be possible to revive this approach for Japanese. Once the word-segmented transcript with precise timestamps is there, there's no limit to the exercise one can generate even programmatically.

The quizzes could even go straight into Anki as cards so no desicated app needs to be built.

twilliability ,
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@elizabethtasker Good luck with your search, and curious to see if you find a good app! Do keep us posted :)

twilliability , to random
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Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.

Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.

How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.

More details at https://rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility :)

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