Extension: Rooster Lesson Editor -> Easy LingQ Lesson editing program

[roosterburton]

@jpp025

Love it! This feature is a game changer for those of us with languages that aren’t as closely knit to Western punctuation ,

That is a feature I didn’t anticipate but I’m glad it works in that way! Grammarless languages, damn… what a trip.

@jpp025

having an alternative and straightforward option to bulk edit target language text for lessons is nice!

I almost cried when I found there was a way to patch the text like this. This code has become quite intricate with the individual saves and order of operations. I like that this bulk patch method doesn’t destroy the original formatting either.

@jpp025

I didn’t do this at first, and it saved as an RTF file (the default format for a New Document via TextEdit), which doesn’t turn out well for your edit text, lol.

Nice find! Great way to save the ASCII codes if you ever wanted them.
You can probably use RTF just save with formatting of UTF8. I’ll add support for more file types next update.

[jpp025]

@roosterburton

Grammarless languages, damn… what a trip.

haha, yeah, definitely not something I expected from a Western POV (didn’t realize how limited that perspective was for me until I learned this)

I would say it’s not entirely “grammarless”, it just has a different grammar structure that isn’t always immediately clear for language learners (especially noobies, like me).

For example:

@SeoulMate

It explains quite a few of these verb endings and particles, but doesn’t cover them all by any means as there are thousands of them. I am not even kidding. My Korean dictionary of verb endings and particles has over a thousand pages with 3 or 4 of these per page.

Some of these forms are very obscure though and you have more chances of seeing men from Mars landing in your back garden than you have of ever encountering them in a text, which means you absolutely don’t need and shouldn’t even try to memorise them.

There are also sentence endings like the ones found here that serve as indications of a sentence/complete expression of thought:

• -요
• -ㅂ니다
• -(으/느)ㄴ 것 같아요
• -(으)ㄹ 수도 있어요
• -죠 or -지요
• -(으/느)ㄴ데요
• -네요
• -세요

Note: Only a *few *are listed.

Source: And also a really good explainer about the difference between the English Language and Korean:

Common Sentence Endings In Korean - TalkToMeInKorean

This video actually explains some of the challenges of Korean sentences specifically, if anyone is interested:

Why Korean sentences are challenging for learners (and what to do about it)

[roosterburton]

ung-gat-ta-tai-oh at the end of every sentence… Not sure why they need so many syllables, maybe I’ll find out one day!

[jpp025]

Short Answer: Honorifics, verb tenses, etc.

But yes, it’s a great language to dive into if you are ever interested, regardless, great to have the .txt patch text feature! Thanks again!

[WillowMeDown]

I wanted it. I downloaded and installed it. I have it. I imported a lesson and clicked it. I saw it. I tried to use it. I’m lost. Help! You probably posted instructions somewhere in this thread…?

Sorry, my head is muddled after 2.5 hours of editing an imported YouTube video’s messed up captions. (All the captions just said: woo woo woo, wee wee, music, wee wee, etc…)

[jpp025]

Hi @WillowMeDown! @roosterburton has great videos for the Rooster extensions linked on the main extension page: Web Browser Extensions (Software) for LingQ

These are ones I found particularly helpful for the Editor:

@roosterburton

EDITOR 1 | EDITOR 2

The directions for getting it to pop up are quoted below for your convenience:

@roosterburton

ROOSTER LESSON EDITOR FOR LINGQ (FREE)
Free browser extension to easily edit LingQ lessons after creation / import.

More videos and visuals for the free version of the editor:

@roosterburton

PICTURE AND VIDEO EXAMPLES

→ VIDEO - V 1.21 | VIDEO - V1.19 | VIDEO - V1.16
→ EXAMPLE WITH DEEPL
PAIR WITH DEEPL EXTENSION TO MAKE FAST TRANSLATION PAIRS

For the new .txt file feature, that is only in the Premium Version, the Patch 1.18 Video shows how to use that feature:

@roosterburton

ROOSTER LESSON EDITOR FOR LINGQ (PREMIUM)
Premium browser extension to easily edit LingQ lessons after creation / import.
PATCH 1.18 VIDEO | PATCH 1.15 VIDEO

After DONATING send me a message for access to this link → PREMIUM EDITOR SOURCE CODE

Edit: Note: Patch Video 1.15 shows how to use the Premium Editor Version without the .txt edit feature, but it still works the same way with the most recent patch.

[WillowMeDown]

Above and beyond, thanks!

[roosterburton]

ROOSTER LESSON EDITOR PREMIUM PATCH 1.19 - 1.31

for 1.31
→ Bug fix for loading of menu on reader page since 1.30

for 1.30
→ Bug fix for loading of menu on Chinese Traditional pages

for 1.29
→ Added Find and Replace feature
→ Bug fix for multiple X buttons next to Audio.

for 1.28
→ Now reliably opens the editing menu on Reader page. (instead of sometimes opening lesson editor page in new tab)

for 1.26/7
→ Added Line highlighting for current mouse selection

for 1.25
→ Added a Delete button (Which removes the Audio and Youtube Video from lesson)

for 1.24
→ Added complete LingQ Text to Speech voice map
→ Added support for 3 character languages (Serbian/Croatian)

Voice Map

const voiceMap = {
    'af':[
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "af-ZA:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "af-ZA:Male"}
    ],
    'ar': [{appName: 'polly', voice: 'Zeina'}],
    'be': [{appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'be-BE:Female'}],
    'bg':[
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "bg-BG:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "bg-BG:Male"}
    ],
    'ca':[
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'ca-ES:Female'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'ca-ES:Male'}
    ],
    'cs':[
        {appName: "gCloudTTS", voice: "cs-CZ:female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "cs-CZ:Male"}
    ],
    'da':[
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Sofie"},
        {appName: "gCloudTTS", voice: "da-DK:female"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Mads"}
    ],
    'de':[
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Marlene'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Vicki'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'de-DE:Female'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Hans'}
    ],
    'el':[
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'el-GR:Female'},
        {appName: 'gCloudTTS', voice: 'el-GR:female'}
    ],
    'en':[
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'en-US:Female'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Nicole'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Brian'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Matthew'}
    ],
    'eo':[{appName: 'eSpeak', voice: 'eo'}],
    'es':[
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Lucia"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Conchita"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Mia"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Lupe"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Enrique"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Miguel"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Sergio"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Andres"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Pedro"}
    ],
    'fa': [
        { appName: "msspeak", voice: "fa-IR:Female" },
        { appName: "msspeak", voice: "fa-IR:Male" },
    ],
    'fi': [
        { appName: "msspeak", voice: "fi-FI:Female:SelmaNeural" },
        { appName: "gCloudTTS", voice: "fi-FI:female" },
        { appName: "msspeak", voice: "fi-FI:Female" }
    ],
    'fr':[
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Celine'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Lea'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Mathieu'},
        {appName: 'gCloudTTS', voice: 'fr-CA:female'}
    ],
    'gu': [
        { appName: "msspeak", voice: "gu-IN:Female" },
        { appName: "msspeak", voice: "gu-IN:Male" },
    ],
    'he':[
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "he-IL:Male"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "he-IL:Female"},
    ],
    'hk': [
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'zh-HK:Female'},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "zh-HK:Male"}
    ],
    'hrv': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "hr-HR:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "hr-HR:Male"}
    ],
    'hu': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "hu-HU:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "hu-HU:Male"}
    ],
    'hy': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "hy-AM:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "hy-AM:Male"}
    ],
    'id': [
        {appName: "gCloudTTS", voice: "id-ID:female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "id-ID:Male"}
    ],
    'is':[
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Dora"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Karl"},
    ],
    'it': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Carla'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Bianca'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'it-IT:Female'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Giorgio'}
    ],
    'ja': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Takumi'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Mizuki'},
        {appName: 'gCloudTTS', voice: 'ja-JP:male'},
        {appName: 'gCloudTTS', voice: 'ja-JP:female'}
    ],
    'ka': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "ka-GE:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "ka-GE:Male"}
    ],
    'ko': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Seoyeon'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'ko-KR:Female'},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "ko-KR:Male"}
    ],
    'la':[{appName: 'gtts', voice: 'la'}],
    'mk':[{appName: "msspeak", voice: "mk-MK:Female"}],
    'ms': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "ms-MY:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "ms-MY:Male"}
    ],
    'nl': [{appName: 'polly', voice: 'Lotte'}],
    'no':[
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "nb-NO:Female"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Liv"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "nb-NO:Male"}
    ],
    'pl':[
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Ewa"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "pl-PL:Female"},
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Jacek"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "pl-PL:Male"}
    ],
    'pt':[
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Vitoria'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Ricardo'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Cristiano'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Camila'}
    ],
    'ro': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Carmen'},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "ro-RO:Male"}
    ],
    'ru': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Tatyana'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Maxim'}
    ],
    'sk': [
        {appName: "gCloudTTS", voice: "sk-SK:female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "sk-SK:Male"}
    ],
    'sl':[
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'sl-SI:Female'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'sl-SI:Male'}
    ],
    'srp': [{appName: 'gCloudTTS', voice: 'sr-RS:female'}],
    'sv': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Astrid'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'sv-SE:Female'}
    ],
    'sw': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "sw-KE:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "sw-KE:Male"}
    ],
    'tl': [
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "fil-PH:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "fil-PH:Male"}
    ],
    'tr': [
        {appName: "polly", voice: "Filiz"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "tr-TR:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "tr-TR:Male"},
    ],
    'uk': [
        {appName: "gCloudTTS", voice: "uk-UA:female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "uk-UA:Female"},
        {appName: "msspeak", voice: "uk-UA:Male"},
    ],
    'zh': [
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Zhiyu'},
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'zh-HK:Female'},
    ],
    'zh-t':[
        {appName: 'msspeak', voice: 'zh-CN:Female'},
        {appName: 'polly', voice: 'Zhiyu'}
    ]
    // ... add other languages here
};

for 1.23
→ Added more translation languages

for 1.22
→ Added Description editing popup
→ Added ‘Lesson Files’ button

for 1.21
→ Added Patch and Delete Audio Buttons
→ Changed Patch Text into a single button

for 1.20
→ Added Lesson Editor Button to Listen and Reader Modes (Auto Opens without ID)
→ Ability to open lesson editor from Library page. (Note: This should allow you to fix any lesson stuck in a death spiral timestamp)

[pchuhaseraya]

Hi again! Is there a way to remove a line break? I’ve imported a video from youtube, and it created too many linebreaks. Because of that some words that I want to save end up in a weird context (for instance, first word of the sentence is at the end the previous one), which messes up non-editable “source text” field. Alternatively, I’ve tried to remove the extra part from one sentence and copy it to another, but I can’t enter spaces - it toggles audio. I’ve tried to rebind “Toggle audio” with the hotkey extension, but with no avail. Or rather the new combination works, but space still toggles audio and I can’t type it in.

[roosterburton]

Hmm. If Lesson audio is being toggled with the lesson editor open it may be best to either… refresh the page, close the audio or open the extension on the lesson editor page. You can also add spaces with shift spacebar i believe.

You can also just toggle that paragraph line to a sentence and it will join them together

Lines 1/2 are joined in the translation. You can use that as a reference

[pchuhaseraya]

@roosterburton

If Lesson audio is being toggled with the lesson editor open it may be best to either… refresh the page, close the audio or open the extension on the lesson editor page. You can also add spaces with shift spacebar i believe.

Refreshing doesn’t work. No matter what I do, space toggles audio, with or without the opened editor. But Shift+space worked, thanks.

@roosterburton

You can also just toggle that paragraph line to a sentence and it will join them together

This makes it looks nicer, but the source text field is still affected. I care about it, since it is then used during the review of LingQs in tests and cannot be editted, as far as I know. So if I save the word where it is out of context, learning it with review will be a pain.

Btw, if I change something in the Editor (for instance this Sentence/Paragraph toggling), then close it, I can no longer open it again. Instead the native LingQ editor is opened in a new tab. Refreshing page helps, though.

Upd: Oops, sorry, refreshing does not help. Only re opening the lesson does.

[roosterburton]

@pchuhaseraya

Refreshing doesn’t work. No matter what I do, space toggles audio, with or without the opened editor.

@pchuhaseraya

Instead the native LingQ editor is opened in a new tab.

@pchuhaseraya

refreshing does not help. Only re opening the lesson does.

Thank’s for letting me know. No workarounds at this stage. I’ll fix these in the next update.

@pchuhaseraya

I care about it, since it is then used during the review of LingQs

Understandable. I’m guessing you’re referring to the fragment of text that is saved with the LingQed word / phrase… which would be hard to review in the SRS without sentence content.

AutoLingQ uses a larger fragment (13 words I think) but complete sentence context are harder to gather.

I’ll see what I can do about making those fields editable as well.

[pchuhaseraya]

@roosterburton

I’ll see what I can do about making those fields editable as well.

That would be great!
For now it works for me just to edit the sentences myself with the Shift+Space trick (since I don’t need to do it for the entire lesson anyway and don’t care that much for the timing to be precise).

And I’ve noticed that the “space toggling audio” is not just about space and the audio. When I work in the editor, all the keys I press are actually affecting the lesson screen. So after playing around with cut-and-pasting, I’ve managed to set the status of some of the words to “Ignore”. But I don’t know if the problem is with the editor or if it is a more general LingQ bug (Firefox browser, the current (v 122.0b3) developer edition).

[roosterburton]

@pchuhaseraya

I’ve managed to set the status of some of the words to “Ignore”.

This seems like a really bad bug. I’ll make a patch that stop the key-binds interfering when lesson editor is open on the reader page. Thanks again for the report.

[alanelder]

Hi @roosterburton

Would it be possible to add a search and replace feature in the Rooster Lesson Editor?

It would be very useful to edit spelling errors in transcribed lessons.

Thanks
Alan

[roosterburton]

@alanelder

I just tried to see if Ctrl+H works but nope…! Its the history shortcut on my browser. I’ll see if there is a native option, otherwise will come up with something. Thanks for the suggestion

[Akpivara]

And does it work on Android?

[roosterburton]

@Akpivara

No android support right now. More browsers/devices coming when the software is finished.

@alanelder

This is a still a big L though…!

Patch within the hour

[bamboozled]

Hi Rooster,
I just tried the lesson editor and while I normally don’t do much editing, it’s very useful for removing ‘paragraphs’ from imported subtitles and whisper transcripts. (No idea why those are automatically added by LingQ)
But unfortunately the process of ‘sentencing everything’ takes a long time. A typical Whisper transcript has only a couple of words per line, but lots of paragraphs (1000+). Not sure if this makes sense, but would it be possible to only make one request to the server that updates all sentences in a batch?
I’m on version 1.21 from the Chrome web store, using MS Edge.

Also, does the translation toggle use the new ChatGPT translator or Google translate?

[alanelder]

@roosterburton

Thanks once again Rooster. An invaluable new feature.

I have used it a few times already and it works perfectly.

Being able to edit lessons on the fly (you just need to refresh after you have saved and closed the editor) is a leap forward for LingQ.