ROOSTER YOUTUBE TOOLS FOR LINGQ
Extra features for language learners when watching videos on Youtube
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License Info
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Word for Word Timestamps Overview
Premium Patch Notes
FIREFOX
1.221
- Bug fix for crash during initial overlay after navigation when word timestamp gui is enabled in some cases
- Bug fix for LingQ dictionary locale only updating during new lesson creation
CHROME
1.63
- Bug fix for crash during initial overlay after navigation when word timestamp gui is enabled in some cases
- Bug fix for LingQ dictionary locale only updating during new lesson creation
View Mega Patch Notes
1.221
- Bug fix for crash during initial overlay after navigation when word timestamp gui is enabled in some cases
- Bug fix for LingQ dictionary locale only updating during new lesson creation
1.220
- Updates to the Word GUI. (Dictionaries, Sentence Examples, Update LingQ)
- Bug fix for status GUI visibility when attempting to mouseover on YT shorts
- Bug fix for null errors when no current caption on YT shorts
1.219
- Floating word menus now fade out gracefully (No longer a sharp on/off display)
1.218
- Bug fix for languages that require splitting (‘zh’, ‘zh-t’, ‘ja’, ‘km’) from splitting correctly when loading from LingQ data
- Bug fix for brackets being included as words in word timestamp cases
- Removed word timestamps for split languages when not autogen
1.217
- Bug fix for some new words not receiving a translation when LingQing and in translation popup
1.216
- Added Khmer (Language)
- Added a mechanism to populate new LingQ languages as they are released
- Added backup data methods for word translations
- Bug fix for translation popup failing in some cases
1.215
- Added Word for Word timestamp approximations to vtt/srt and main subtitles.
- Added an additional setting to display 1 (current word) or 3 words (previous, current, next) in the word for word GUI
- Style fix for fading of caption and word for word gui. (was flickering in some cases)
1.214
- Added
Import Own Subsfeature: This replaces the video overlay with your own srt/vtt/json3 files. You can import these to LinGQ at the same time.- When a course has 1 lesson the lesson is auto selected. This function has not changed. What is new is an additional dropdown option to add a new lesson to this course.
- Removed Word for Word feature for RTL languages. (This is currently unsupported and leads to words being joined together)
1.213
- Bug fix for loading data from LingQ lesson when
use LingQ textis checked (From 1.211)1.212
- Bug fix for word timing popup remaining on screen after navigation
- Bug fix for word timing popup not being affected by
Reset Display1.211
- Added a Checkbox for preferring Youtube’s auto generated (ASR) subtitles to main menu
- Added
Word Level Timestampsas an additional menu setting when using ASR subtitles.- Word Level Timestamps Menu:
→ Checkbox for Bold/Italic current spoken word
→ Control the GUI tick rate (was 4t/s 250ms, now is 10t/s 100ms). Slider to control between 30ms-300ms depending on your PC
→ GUI tick rate is important when listening to faster videos as the current word may be faster than the refresh rate.
→ a Popup menu to display the previous current and next spoken word. Control its colors, font size and position.1.210
- Bug fix for word status bars remaining on screen when captions change
- Bug fix for previous subtitle button automatically playing the video again if no action performed within 0.5 secs (.e.g multi back skips)
1.209
- When loading from split lessons the next lessons timestamps are now adjusted to allow full video playback.
1.208
- Moved Floating Captions Styles menu to the
Word Colors and Effectsmenu- Added a Style control panel for Extended Subtitles menu to
Word Colors and Effectsmenu- Extended Subtitle Languages now update independently of the main caption line. (This fixes splitting issues between original subtitles)
1.207
- Added
Main Linecolor to the presets selection. (This will color unLingQable words to the desired theme)- Added
Main Line Color Pickerto theWord Colors and Effectsmenu- Various bug fixes related to style previews and saving of styles
- Bug fix for rooster menu being available on first navigation to shorts menu
- Bug fix for LingQ course/lesson ids persisting when swapping languages
1.206
- Added
Save Presetbutton toWord Colors and Effectsmenu. You can now swap between and reload saved color configs- Bug fix for LinGQqed words and preset settings being visible when no lingq lesson attached
1.205
- Bug fix for selecting style presets on floating captions menus
1.204
- Moved Caption Box color and Translation Line color from the
Caption Buttonsmenu toColor Settingsmenu- Added a slider to control the alpha setting of the Caption Box
- Added an additional color effect to reduce the alpha of words based on their LingQ status
- Added a preset options dropdown to the
Color Settingsmenu- Added multiple color presets that provide sample setups for the word colors, translation line, caption box color and alpha
- Added color picker for main line if no LingQ lesson attached
- Style fix for live updating of the captions word colors in
Color Settingsmenu1.203
- Added more options for spoken speed preference
- Moved Toggle Spaces option to Menu Settings
1.202
- Bug fix for TTS availability in extra language menu when main importing Chinese/Japanese
- Bug fix for duplicate menus being created in some cases
1.201
- Bug fix for Overlay generating before GPT translation is ready on some longer videos.
- Bug fix for causing an error on import when using GPT Translation and importing to Japanese when word split optimization is checked
1.200
- Added a retry mechanism up to 2 if GPT translation returns less than 70% accuracy. (Most Translations are returning 65-100% with infrequent 0% failures)
- LingQ Translation Language and Ling Dictionary Language are now seperate
1.199
- Added additional checkbox to generate audio for video speed based on spoken TTS speed
1.198
- Listening time is now calculated based on spoken time only, not video playback time. Video playback speed is also taken into account
- Bug fix for overlay failing to generate if no LingQ account attached
1.197
- Added persisting state to Import to LingQ checkbox on comments menu
- Bug fix for keybindings taking priority over writing text when writing a comment in the comments section.
- Bug fix for importing comments if set courseId was for a different language
- Bug fix for preferred language being duplicated at top of dropdown in comments menu
- Bug fix for light import preference persisting and causing errors from previous versions
- Bug fix for course creation when
Import to LingQisn’t checked- Bug fix for importing comments containing URLS
- Bug fix for courseId populating from comments when commented language and preferred language are different
1.196
- Added
Commentsbutton to main menu. Can download or import the comment section as a new LingQ lesson. IfNo Commentsis displayed just scroll down to load the comments and try again.1.195
- Bug fix for crashing error in Youtube Shorts menu on occasion.
- Future proofed menu loading in case of DOM changes
1.194
- Bug fix for translation popup visibility when not loading from a LingQ lesson
1.193
- All imported lessons now include original timestamps and emote lines
Heavy Importrenamed toGPT translation- Bug fix for GPT Translation failing on privileged accounts sometimes
- Heavy Import no longer imports a duplicate of the lesson
- Light Import has been removed
- Transcribe no longer generates a GPT Translation unless GPT Translation box is checked
1.192
- Bug fix for
download subtitlesbutton not working when importing from LingQ data or after generating GPT translation1.191
- Bug fix for generating GPT Translation of transcribed videos.
- Bug fix for checking of transcription status in some cases
1.190
- Bug fix for inaccurate reporting of video Listening time
1.189
- Bug fix for failing to load video tools on Shorts Menu in some cases
1.188
- Bug fix for lag and crashing in some cases on the YT shorts menu
- Bug fix for Audio Dub failing to generate on single version of extension
1.187
- Bug fix for words sometimes returning no data.
1.186
- Bug fix for listening time going negative when skipping backwards in a video.
1.185
- Rare bug fix for languages returning a similar coded language subtitle (e.g fi → fil) if both subtitle options are available.
1.184
- Changed import order on
Shortsmenu. Will now search for main or autogen subtitle in target language not all languages. If not available Transcribe instead.1.183
- Language preferences and LingQ Lesson ID now autofill on subsequent video views after creating a lesson.
1.182
- Bug fix for fetch lesson details timing out in some cases
1.181
- Bug fix for being notified for previously
Transcribedvideos.- Bug fix for being notified for current video transcribe in some cases. (Note: If you tab away from Youtube you won’t be notified, you can change vids within YT)
1.180
- Further bug fix for overlay failing to generate on some transcribed videos. (Some News/Previously YT Red)
1.179
- Bug fix for overlay failing to generate on some transcribed videos.
1.178
- Bug fix for word data returning in your preferred dictionary language rather than your set translation language.
1.177
- Transcribed videos are now given a GPT translation before overlay is applied
- Bug fix for loading of word observer menu on shorts page
1.176
- Bug fix for crash during overlay on YT shorts menu. (Note: Was a recent change to YT shorts website structure)
1.175
- Bug fix for hint-less words definitions when using
LingQ while watchingsetting1.174
- Bug fix for translation popup information when loaded from extended subtitles menu.
1.173
- Bug fix for TTS, Know and Ignore function on new words in extended subtitles box
- Bug fix for updating status of newly LingQed extra language words
1.172
- Removed end screen when multiple languages are loaded at the same time. (Note: Was causing extra languages to be saved to wrong language in some cases. Will be reworked later)
1.171
- Bug fix for saving meanings of new words in LingQ if word had never been defined
1.170
- Bug fix for importing/loading from shorts menu for re-mapped languages.
1.169
- Added Audio Stream button to Initial Menu on Shorts & Regular Videos
1.168
- Added support Youtube Shorts (See Here)
- Added a Youtube Shorts selection menu
1.167
- Bug fix for Lesson creation failing if data API calls fail.
1.166
- Bug fix for
Japanese/ChineseAudio being requested withspacesbetween words.1.165
- Catastrophic bug fix for frame rate drop and line skipping on Firefox version since 1.162
1.164- Bug fix for auto ignoring words that have their term as the first saved meaning but have other meanings saved
- Style fix for flex of word status buttons and new word UIs
1.163
- Bug fix for heavy importing as a librarian+ privilege
1.162
- Bug fix for priority of main caption line if translation is out of sync for whatever reason
1.161
- Temporarily removed combined word lists when importing multiple languages.
1.160
- Bug fix for Youtube Shorts icon appearing on singular version of the extension
- Removed some logging for performance
1.159
- Bug fix for certain languages working correctly. (re-mapped ones) (Hebrew, Croatian, Serbian, Tagalog, Cantonese)
1.158
- Bug fix for new and lingqed word floating menus remaining on screen after caption change
- Bug fix for dangerous buttons alert on ‘Know all’ on floating LingQed words menu
1.157
- Bug fix for display of custom alert on New words menu
- Bug fix for newly lingqed words with transliteration losing their transliteration on next viewing
1.156
- Style fix for margins when adding extra languages
- Bug fix for hiding of Ignored words with ‘Hide Known and Ignored words’ checked
- Bug fix for icon display in color settings menu on Youtube Tools singular addon
1.155
- Style fix for initial menu drag position
1.154
- Style/data improvements for Translation popup
- Added borders to some menus
- Minor position fix for control panel
1.153
- If the lesson dropdown only has 1 result it will now auto select
- Redesign of word colors and effects menu, effects are represented by inline icons and an example is displayed
- Style fixes for button readability, mouseover effect on end screen and minor element positions
- Further polishing of initial menu
- Added tooltips to more menu actions
- Changed the basic windows alert for ‘Alert for dangerous buttons’ to a Rooster themed popup
- Removed the
Know allbutton fromcurrent captionfrom alert for dangerous buttons- Added
Light import→ import lesson with formatting improvements and a google translation.- Note: You either import as Light, Heavy, Transcribe or Basic (None selected). (Only 1 can be selected)
- Bug fix for mouseover pause on extended subtitles menu
1.152
- Style fix for Lesson Settings Menu
1.151
- Pause on mouseover now only plays the video again if it was playing when originally moused over.
- Style fixes for caption buttons, color settings menu
- Standardized max height of all menus
1.150
- Further bug fixes for Lingqing in extended menus and lingqing extended menu words in the floating popup.
- Bug fix for video data patching for the heavy/extended subs
1.149
- Bug fix for new words being LingQed to wrong language sometimes when LingQed from
Extended subtitles menu- Bug fix for ignoring words in extended subtitles menu ignoring them in your main selected language.
1.147/8
- Large amount of style clean ups and polishing of all menus
- Changed ‘Highlight Known Words’ to ‘Hide Known & Ignored Words’
- Added word status menu for ignored words on hover
- Bug fix for Previous and Replay caption keybinds
- Bug fix for creating and viewing LingQs of some word formats for following langs: → Italian, French, Irish, Arabic, Hebrew
- Bug fix for the title/description/image/external and videoURL of
extra imported languagesand ‘Heavy import’- Bug fix for video description of imported lessons
- Bug fix for edge cases when incorrect grammar was used to join words
- Minor tooltip fixes
1.146
- Bug fix for display of captions when the subs were autogen and generated from the new translate popup window.
1.145
- Replaced basic
check subtitle languagealert with a continuation menu- If your language track is not available AND you have not pressed transcribe or your imported lesson doesn’t have timestamps or
Use LingQ textisn’t checked you will recieve this popup- This menu allows you to generate a fast main line subtitle by translating from an available track.
- Style changes to the control panel
- Bug fix for visibility of caption buttons
1.144
- Bug fix for null error during periods of no subtitles
- Bug fix for non spoken video speed not working correctly
- Bug fix for captions box not returning if there was a break in the captions
1.143
- Redesigned video settings menu to ‘Control Panel’, similar to Netflix.
- Added ability to speed up spoken (0.5-4x) and non spoken parts (1.25-8x) video speed
- Removed ‘Video Speed Up’ and ‘Video Speed Down’ keybindings
1.142
- Added more TTS options to Observer
- Tooltips for caption buttons
- Bug fix for ‘Auto Replay Caption’ feature not triggering on every caption. (Especially for autogen subs)
1.141
- Added Hindi as a select-able language
1.140
- Added a ‘Replay Caption X’ setting. (This will replay each video captions 1-5x via predefined input before advancing if selected)
- Bug fix for audio dub not generating complete sound files sometimes.
- Bug fix for Video settings menu not being hidden if initial panel is closed while creating. (Now just inserts an icon)
- Bug fix for sending listening time if using generated audio.
1.139
- Generated audio is now adjusted based on the videos playback speed (0.5-4x)
1.138
- Major improvements to the ‘Generate Audio’ function. Generated audio now keeps pace with the video. (Autogen and main sub)
Note: The Text to Speech will be sped up to accomodate for short speech windows. This is apparently a common problem with dubbing.1.137
- Added ‘Generate Audio’ Checkbox. You can use this setting to play Text to Speech instead of the video while the video plays.
(Useful for languages where the video audio doesn’t match the subtitle you want to study)
Note: There are some synchronization issues. Ideas and feedback welcome.- Re-added large number of text to speech voices. (Fixed a previous error → some of the voices failing to play)
1.136
- Bug fix for ‘Bold phrases’ feature being always on
- Bug fix for LingQ all and Know all words when multiple languages have been imported
1.135
- Added ‘Known’, ‘Ignore’ and ‘Know All’ Buttons to floating LinGQed words menu
- Added checkbox for ‘Bold phrases’ → LingQed phrases will appear bold in the captions
- Style fix for courses button expanding with the menu
- Bug fix for updating the word status of extended subtitle languages
- Bug fix for visibility of ‘Known’ and ‘Ignore’ word buttons after clicking LinGQ all in the floating New words menu
- Bug fix for preferred position of extended subtitles menu shifting between videos
- Bug fix for preferred position of some menus when dragging via move menus
1.134
- Normalized the ‘Keybindings’ Modal colors/styles to other menus
- Can now repopulate the courses dropdown if wrong language was initially selected
- Minor styling fixes, hover effects across various menus
- Bug fix for display of word status menu if word was marked ‘known’ without Lingqing
- Bug fix for the text display of a keybind sequence that had been rebound from 1 action to another
- Bug fix for word status bars when mousing out of end screen
- Bug fix for starting position of video settings menu
- Bug fix for toggling of ‘Move menus’ via label
1.133
- Style fix for some menu highlights
- Style fix for color settings menu position
- Style fix for some menu positions after pressing ‘Reset Display’
- Bug fix for being able to drag several menus with the ‘move menus’ bind/checkbox
- Bug fix for excessive lag caused by Observer menu
1.132
- Swapping Main Subtitle Language input now auto swaps the LingQ language input and vice versa.
- Added more progress steps to the Create Lesson text dialogue. (When non-standard inputs are selected)
- Normalized colors across menus
- Style fix for maximum height of some menus
- Bug fix for version header appearing more than once in some cases.
- Bug fix for some menus being able to drag off the screen in some cases.
- Bug fix for ‘Reset Display’ causing weird behaviour when dragging menus
- Bug fix for permanent position of new/lingqed words menus when dragging via drag handle
for 1.131
- Moved several settings to more relevant menus
- Added Known button to Observer ‘New Words’ Menu
- Style fix for auto send words read
- Bug fix for word splitting of Japanese/Chinese variants in the extended subtitle menu when ‘Import to LingQ’ has been checked.
- Bug fix for Observer causing requests to fail in some cases
- Bug fix for ‘Create new course’ from courses dropdown
- Bug fix for native language populating dropdowns for some users
for 1.130
- Bug fix for display of non native language GPT translations
- Display fixes for menu positioning relative to the video player
- Moved auto send words/listen time to Lesson settings menu from Stats menu
- Menu style selection update
for 1.129
- Improved the loading menu
- Bug fix for text to speech not playing in some cases
- Bug fix for text to speech voice selection when clicking words in extended languages menu.
- Bug fix for translation data popup when clicking words in extended languages menu.
- Bug fix for extended languages menu persisting when changing pages
- Bug fix for display of extended language words if ‘Import to LingQ’ wasn’t checked.
- Bug fix for lag from logging on extended languages menu
for 1.128
- Added ability to LingQ and get word data for extra imported languages. (Learn all the languages…!)
Note: Add them as Extra languages with ‘Import to LingQ’ checked for the overlay.- Added a checkbox to import ‘Simplified Lesson’. (Currently disabled while I work out some issue)
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Dual Subtitles | Display subtitles in any language pair. |
| Subtitle Syncing | Captions are synced with the original audio, regardless of spoken language. |
| Improved AutoGenerated Subtitles Parsing | Enhances the parsing of automatically generated subtitles. |
| Word Level Timestamps | Enjoy word level subtitle options for ASR subtitled (Auto Gen) videos. |
| Transcribe and embed captions | Automatically create and embed subtitles for caption-less videos. |
| Import own Text/Translation | Ability to embed your own text/translation into the video. |
| Simple Subtitle Menu | Easily load subtitles and turn off native YouTube captions. |
| Query Word Data | Utilize GPT/Machine learning for word translation data. |
| One-Click LingQ Lesson Creation | Create LingQ lessons in any language with a single click. |
| Attach LingQ Lessons for Tooltips and Highlighting | Use attached LingQ lessons for mouseover tooltips and word highlighting. |
| Automatic stats | Automatically calculates your listen time / words read and sends to LingQ |
| LingQ Observer Integration | Sophisticated LingQ creation / editing menu built for Youtube. |
| In-Player LingQ Lesson Management | Create and update LingQs directly in the YouTube video player. |
| Split Lesson Support | Attach multiple LingQ lessons to a single video. |
| Autoscrolling Words Popup | Displays popups for new words and those in LingQ lessons as they appear in the video. |
| Text to Speech and Voice Selection | Choose different voices for text-to-speech functionality. Can replace the video’s sound or played as needed. |
| One-Click LingQ Word Management | LingQ all lesson words or mark words as known with a single click. |
| Transliteration for Certain Languages | Offers transliteration options for languages that require it. |
| Word Splitting for Chinese/Japanese | Splits words appropriately for these languages. |
| Segment Solutions for Arabic/Chinese | Provides segment solutions tailored for Arabic and Chinese languages. |
| Filtering Options for LingQed Words/Phrases | Filter options for words or phrases that have been added to LingQ. |
| Text to Speech for Phrases/Sentences | Activate text to speech for full phrases or the current sentence. |
| Subtitle Tools Menu | Copy, Rewind and Text to Speech of current caption. |
| Keybindings | Utilize and modify LingQ related keyboard binds on Youtube. |
| Customization Options | Control a wide array of menu options including colors, size, position, visibility and more |
