More Guardian Anki Decks: Audio Deck - Episode 01

[tinny]

It's been almost two years, and I've started another Guardian Learning endeavor: audio decks!

There's a tool called subs2srs that can create anki decks from video (+subtitle) files, and it works great.

The cards look like this (front and back):






But the best thing about them is the audio, of course. :D Choose anki's "Import" function and see how it works! There is no need for text-to-speech in this deck. The package contains mp3 audio clips which I think every OS will play fine, and jpg screenshots. (No video.)

I've made the first deck now:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3ji9m9nhk80c8wz/Guardian_Audio_Deck_01.apkg     (Note that this deck is 20MB in size!)


Let me know if you like this kind of deck!



If there's enough interest, I can make decks for every episode. But I'd very much appreciate help with that. It's not hard to create the cards using the tool. The timeconsuming part is to weed out the unusable segments. I'd rather not clog up the sets with repetitive snippets or clips where you can't hear the speakers over background noise or music. So one has to listen to all the segments and decide which ones to keep. This takes at least as long as the episode is, usually about 50% longer. So it's a bit of a time investment.

Let me know if you want to help, and I'll tell you what you'll need (the subs2srs tool, some Guardian episodes, and their subtitles in both English and Chinese), how the tool works, and what you'll have to do. If we split the work, this should go much faster.

p.s.: you can get Anki here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Comments

[nnozomi]

So that's what it looks like! Awesome. At some point I will manage to lend a hand!

[tinny]

The look isn't everything, the audio is the cool thing about it. ;)

<3 no hurry. (Looks like nobody is using anki right now anyway...)

[trobadora]

Oh wow, that is amazing, thank you so much! This may actually get me back to Anki. :D

[tinny]

Let me know how you like it. This is the first try (and probably has too many too long sentences in it). We're planning on streamlining the deck(s) so the vocab is well covered and we don't have too many cards in the final deck.

[trobadora]

Will do! ♥

[trobadora]

Btw, you totally should post about this on sid_guardian as well, I'm sure there are more people who'd be interested who haven't found this place yet. 💖

[yaaurens]

Oh, wow! I never really got into using Anki, but maybe this will help me!

[tinny]

Anki is so good! It's free and customizable and you can do so many things with it. I really like it.

Let me know if you manage to try it and how you like it. This is just the first try, we can still make improvements.

Thank You!

[sam_gardener]

So you just got me to download Anki, (and your deck of course). It looks and sounds great so far, I will get back to you about it. (And I'll probably have questions about how to use (make stuff with) Anki).

Re: Thank You!

[tinny]

Yay, I'm happy! \o/

Yes, you can ask me things about Anki anytime.

I made another deck (two years ago, sadly there are no tags for the decks yet, so they're hard to find) here:

https://guardian-learning.dreamwidth.org/2549.html

Just, you know, to see how differently cards can look in Anki, if you're interested in customizing it.

[elenothar]

You finished the first episode! \o/

I really should give anki another go now that this is available 😅 (then again, not sure how well my pretty old phone would cope with the file sizes...)

[tinny]

considering my *ancient* tablet with an *almost as ancient* android version copes... I think it'll be fine. *keeps fingers crossed*