[Feature request] .oga support & import audio transcripts using the LingQ extension

Hi,

I have a feature request for something I’m doing manually now.

Some websites have embedded audio that can be downloaded using some browser extension and then uploaded to LingQ.

The website I use is a paid danish journalism website that hosts articles and with each article there’s embedded audio of the author reading it.

Here’s an example, I hope it won’t be paywalled - Afsnit 1: Operation Pellegrino. En dansk hightech-thriller fortalt fra det hemmelige efterforskningsrum

My process with these is to use this extension on chrome to download the audio.

The audio gets downloaded in .oga format, which is not supported by LingQ, so I use freeconvert . com/oga-to-mp3
to convert to mp3 and then upload to LingQ.

Being a software developer myself I see some room for automation here :slight_smile:

So what would make my life easier are

  • step 1 - support for importing .oga directly, and convert to whatever format LingQ needs in your backend
  • step 2 - add finding audio to the lingq browser extension in a website and import that, like the extension I linked to does.

Side note. I have to import the text manually to LingQ from that website as well, so even the text import is not working.

And yes, I do have a subscription and I’m not trying to go around their paywall, the text is readily available to manually copy paste, so I’m not sure why the lingq extension is not able to parse it.

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Also, the thing with new users not being able to have more than 2 links in a post is a bit silly

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Thanks for your feedback and suggestion. We’ll see what can be done.

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