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    Pencil
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    Long, long ago, the lovely Mr Koichi made a post about RhinoSpike, and how you could use it to ask native speakers to record audio for you. He advised against using RS with shorter material since iKnow would apparently work much better.

    …Unfortunately, I have a feeling that iKnow’s changed a lot in the past few years (for one thing, the whole ‘paid members only’ development), so I’m hoping that someone here could tell me another way to download audio of single words/set phrases (kind of like the ones in Tae Kim). I’m trying to incorporate a bit of pronunciation practice into my Anki revisions, so that as well as remembering the readings, I can also compare how it sounds out loud.

    Got any ideas, guys?

    If nothing else, I was thinking of requesting vocab in block ‘lists’ (say thirty words or so) and then splitting up the audio myself. Would that maybe work with RhinoSpike?

    #32365

    Anonymous

    iKnow has changed compared to a few years ago. Right now, I use RhinoSpike to get my Japanese audio but recently I haven’t been receiving a lot of audio, but you could give it a try.

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    Hashi
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    RhinoSpike and Forvo are the two free audio sites I know that might do you good.

    #32371

    Pencil
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    Thanks for the advice, guys. =D

    I’ve actually managed to hack together a makeshift solution, which I’ll post in case anyone else might find it useful:

    1. Download Audacity, or something similar.
    2. Set your speakers as the default playback device and your sound card (‘Stereo Mix’) as the recording device.
    3. Look up the vocab on JDIC, start recording, and hit the little blue ‘play’ button if there is one.

    Time-consuming, but at least it works.

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