Busy around languages but not really learning!
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:36 pm
This entire week has been busy, I somehow got stuck on Pimsleur Unit 25 did some intense Audacity stuff with it (more on that) and ... stopped studying anything! well, Brun Ugle and I did have our exchange, I did a little German talking and a few Anki crds but nothing like the last weeks. I'm busy starting another entrepreneur project and the team there needed a lot of work to get going.
So tonight, I thought I'd write a little about the Audacity work that I did because I found something interesting (for me), that I thought I might share.
First off, Pimsleur Unit 25 kicked my butt. And I wasn't going to take it - so I decided to do a echoing exercise as somewhat described by Kjellin. Here the objective is to repeat sentences for prosody, understanding and recognition a gazillion times. More or less.
In Audacity, I found that i could use the Sound Finder function to tag all of the individual sentences.
A little fiddling around and the settings I found worked best are:
The key being the minimum duration of silence between sounds (0.200). That created tags for all the content, I then went through the sound file and deleted all the English sentences. About 15 minutes to get close to 200 sound segments.
Then multiple exports and a really nice set of sentences (with some repeats) that I can either work on standalone or enter into Anki.
Now I just need to go study!
So tonight, I thought I'd write a little about the Audacity work that I did because I found something interesting (for me), that I thought I might share.
First off, Pimsleur Unit 25 kicked my butt. And I wasn't going to take it - so I decided to do a echoing exercise as somewhat described by Kjellin. Here the objective is to repeat sentences for prosody, understanding and recognition a gazillion times. More or less.
In Audacity, I found that i could use the Sound Finder function to tag all of the individual sentences.
A little fiddling around and the settings I found worked best are:
The key being the minimum duration of silence between sounds (0.200). That created tags for all the content, I then went through the sound file and deleted all the English sentences. About 15 minutes to get close to 200 sound segments.
Then multiple exports and a really nice set of sentences (with some repeats) that I can either work on standalone or enter into Anki.
Now I just need to go study!