When downloading YouTube videos to LINGQ, I still get broken sentences, which is unpleasant during the learning process. I have searched in vain for a way to correct this in LINGQ. I have now had the text corrected by ChatGPT and replaced the text in LINGQ with the corrected version. Unfortunately, the result was that the YouTube audio file was gone and replaced by the audio provided by LINGQ Premium, which not only sounds less natural but also frequently places incorrect stress on words—at least for Russian, for which I use LINGQ. Is there a way to restore the YouTube audio file in the lesson or to prevent that file from being replaced?
@benscheelings When importing from YouTube, we grab the subtitle file and import it. No changes are made to text in the subtitles. What exactly do you mean by broken sentences?
Thanks for your reply, Zoran! By broken sentences, I mean that when I work in sentence mode, the sentence is sometimes broken off in an unnatural way; in other words, it is not quite finished. This does not happen in all videos, but when it does, it is bothersome. I will give two examples, one from the YouTube channel Russian with Dasha, and one from the YouTube channel русский в диалогах:
Russian with Dasha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-AzipARmjU&t=6s
Привет, вынаканалеRussian with Dasha. Здесь мы изучаем русский как иностранный. Субтитры на /
русском и английском — внизу. Бывает ли у вас такое? Вы довольно хорошо читаете по-русск и,
русский в диалогах
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1dQUI 1zk 6s
Рад снова вас приветствовать. Сегодня я хочу, чтобы вы на мгновение расслабились. Може т бы ть, /
отложите телефон, может быть, вы сейчас идёте куда-то. Может быть, занимаете сь н ебольшими
If you continue through the video,you will find plenty of other examples. Do you think LINGQ could find a solution for this?
This is a YouTube issue, especially with automatic captions.
That is also caused by some YouTube content creators. When they add subtitles to a video on youtube, sentences often have to be split into parts - meaning separate lines - because a) the viewer has to be able to read the subtitles in the time given by the spoken content.
And b) four to five line long subtitle sentences on one picture are a bit much - meaning difficult to follow.
Also, usually a YouTube subtitle line is fixed to a certain time within the video (done by the content creator or by YouTube). So LingQ is just taking what is given…
[Some users and librarians here spent a lot of time editing YouTube texts and audios in LingQ to offer readable shared lessons to other users, even if AI can make the editing a bit faster in some cases.]
@benscheelings Unfortunately, not much we can do here. This depends on the captions and in this mentioned cases, they are broken. We grab and import the captions file.