jlabjapanese

December update

Added 2023-12-31 13:04:25 +0000 UTC

It's the last day of 2023 and high time for an update! The last weeks were packed with job and family related things, so I did not post anything. However, I also continued with the project: In addition to creating a few new cards, I was mostly working on two new types of content: First, the vocab deck you voted for: I extracted all the vocabulary from the main deck and tried different ways to get good audio. Second, I thought that it is a good idea to provide you with the captions I use for video mining. I used AI/whisper to generate them and while they are far from perfect, the quality is very good - much better than the subs on YouTube. Both the deck and the captions will be finished soon, I will provide more details in a dedicated post each.

Off topic: A chore I did was to switch IDEs: For jlab, I had used pycharm for the anki addon and visual studio 2017 for the mining tools in the past. I switched to vs code and visual studio 2022 now to be able to use github copilot in the project. I've been using this at work a lot and found it very useful. This is just a technical detail, but since Teppei mentioned a couple of times that many of his students have a background in computer science in his podcast, I thought this is maybe interesting ;).

I wish you all the best for 2024, a lot of success with your Japanese and I will get back with a content update soon. Thank you for all of your support!