but for higher levels? does not have to be HSK 5 or 6, can be intermendiate/advanced /etc. The course mentioned above, made by @dmitry.kvasov, prompts Mandarin audio, the user has to click on the right Hanzi, and then the English/whatever definition appears (therefore a no-typing course - when higher levels, better so maybe, because of the many variants)
I have a script that allows me to generate audio using Google Translate’s audio for any words that don’t have an audio file uploaded in a Chinese course. It’s really not much of a hassle for me to use this to generate such a course for each of the HSK levels, as long as you’re okay with that source of audio. Would you like me to do this?
I suggest you really need the context of a phrase if you want to test on audio in Chinese. And then because learning in context is best, I further suggest converting your favorite series or movie to audio files and extracting the words and phrases you want to study. An invaluable help to make a course like that: https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/features
Are you talking about cooljingle’s Audio Provider userscript? Or a different one that helps you to upload the audio to Memrise?
It is indeed as I described. It’s my own script that goes into any chinese course that I have editor access to and hunts down the words that don’t have audio. It then automatically generates an audio file from Google Translate and uploads it to that word.
After doing a similar thing with the Forvo, I used this script to upload audio files for the words without any Forvo audio for my HSK 6 course that I created.
That is very nice! You can immediately think of courses that become so much easier to make if adding audio isn’t such a hassle. I have some books in my mind I may want to try it with some time. Only thing is that while Google’s TTS is okay, it isn’t best of class.
I chose Google because I think it’s the best TTS service out there. It sounds very authentic at times. If you can think of another one that’s better, I can look into using that instead/also. As for using it on other courses, I would be willing. All you have to do is send me a message and make me a contributor.
it would be great if you could use the existing audio files from the exisiting HSK 5 and 6 or the existing intermediate/advanced. Some of them have native audio.
I’ve tried it myself, to create a course out of them, but the bulk upload did not function. Given I have little spare time these days… and the number of items…
I was thinking, maybe some of the curators/creators of these courses would read this post, duplicate their courses and change the testing direction - it is the easiest, fastest, trouble-less solution…
It seems possible to rip the audio from the other courses and upload them into a new series of courses. I’ll give it a look this weekend if I have time.
@DrewSSP, many thanks. However - please don’t get upset with me for saying this … would be possible to ask the permission of the original creator, or at least to mention in the description of the course which/who is the source of the audio files (the link to the original course inclusive)? I don’t feel ok about using other people’s work without at least letting them know and saying “many thanks” to them…
@Hydroptere of course I’m not upset. However hunting down the course creator is not something I’m willing to do. If you can do so, I will be willing to proceed as requested and give credit where it is due.
@sircemloud I’m not really sure what you mean but I’ll tell you what the script does. First it goes into the database and makes a list of everything that’s in there. It then looks through each item in the list and determines whether it has audio. This step requires that the database be targeted for chinese language learners but I doubt the language being used to learn chinese matters. Finally, it takes the information in the first column and uses that to generate Chinese audio from Google TTS just before uploading it.
If you set simplified mandarin as your target language everything should be fine.
@Morgengrauen My script is for Chinese. While it is easy enough to change it to include other languages, doing so will compromise it in a way that I am unwilling to do. If you would like, I can send you the files and you can try to change it yourself.
I am doing my test by audio course, but I advance very slowly, as I have to be carefull not to confuse myself and the user with homophones… I’m doing it like this: one level prompt with Audio, choose Hanzi, the next level prompt with audio, pick up English.
I’m doing prompt with audio, but not in the same manner, in my “City” course)
Thanks for the offer and don’t worry, it wouldn’t work until Nick from Sound of Text updates the language list available.
I hope he will do it, and then I can take a look at your script
