Slice Movies & Anime into Audio-Visual Anki Listening Flashcards with Whisper & subs2srs
Turn every line of a movie or anime episode into an Anki card with native audio, scene screenshot and bilingual subtitles using Whisper and open-source subs2srs.
CORE TOOLS
subs2srs / Knowclip (Open Source), WhisperX, Anki
BEST FOR
Language learners, IELTS/TOEFL candidates, shadowing practitioners
REQUIREMENTS
Video and SRT files; free Knowclip / subs2srs and Anki
✦ WHY THIS WORKFLOW
Learners often know words on paper but miss them in fast native speech due to connected-speech reductions. Sentence-level audio flashcards train your ear on real prosody.
I am practicing listening with movie clips. Below are 5 lines of dialogue I struggled to catch by ear:
[Paste lines]
Please break down:
1) [Connected Speech]: Mark linking, elision, flap-T and weak forms explaining why it sounds different from dictionary pronunciation;
2) [Idiom & Usage]: Explain any slang/idioms and give 1 everyday example sentence for each.
Use Cases & Tags:
TV series listening comprehensionAnime immersion miningMovie idiom & slang collectionShadowing sentence-by-sentence drills#subs2srs#whisper
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