Autoplay audio in flashcards when answering
If possible it would be nice to have an option to autoplay audio when answering flashcards. When answering flashcards generally I am testing that I know the meaning and pronounciation.
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Sebastian
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This feature is now working.
Premium users can enable “Speaking Mode” from the settings page: http://readlang.com/preferences
Once enabled, you will hear audio pronunciation every time:
- You translate a word or phrase
- The side of the flashcard in your target language is displayed
This works for the following 17 languages: Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Please let me know what you think of this and how it works.
Some notes:
1. It doesn’t work when using the Web Reader on iOS.
2. When enabled, you’ll see an audio icon at the top of the reader page and during a flashcard session allowing you to toggle “speaking mode” – this won’t appear at all if it wasn’t enabled first from the settings page (http://readlang.com/preferences)
3. On YouTube videos, audio pronunciation will only work when the video is paused.
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Hi Angelika, I've fixed the issue with the title overlapping the audio icon now - thanks for pointing that out!
For now I haven't announced this feature widely and you're correct that it's a bit hidden - if you don't enable it in the settings you won't even see that audio icon. I'm seeing what reactions people have for now and will probably announce it publicly in the next week or two.
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Angelika
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Thank you for that! It already works better than I had expected - I thought there might be significant delays, but the autoplay works well (at least for me).
And the Polish text-to-speech is so incredible - it is really a pity that nobody will use it...
There is one, small problem: in my browser (chrome) it doesn't look nice, you can overlook the audio icon at the top of the reader page, because it's covered with longer titles.