I did the Migaku free trial and I couldnt believe it. It has a feature which captures the original sound clip of a word or phrase when you make a vocab card, whilst Lingq uses only an AI voice. When you review, you hear the original in context. For languages like Chinese this makes a huge difference. In additon the flashcards look much better and the UI is more sleek. Please take note and add this feature because it is the one issue making me consider switching
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I don’t know if it would be a tech nightmare but if they could overhaul the LingQ SRS and have the flashcards clip the audio like that it would make LingQ perfect
After some exploration, I figured out that Migaku uses “https://forvo.com/” to get the pronunciation of a word.
As far as I can find, the pronunciations are recorded by volunteer workers, and the sound quality is not so good. Also, since it’s not TTS, if a word is not in its base form, there might not be a pronunciation for the word.
It’s human-spoken pronunciation, so it has its own advantage, but to get pronunciation for every selected word/sentence, TTS should be used. In short, it could be used as an auxiliary material, but not the main one.
If you want to use a better AI-TTS with an add-on script, refer these posts:
AI-TTS demo: Google's new TTS model is really great - #4 by vet8t6z79pc4
Add-on having a feature substitute the LingQ original TTS with AI-TTS (used in the demo): LingQ Web Extension (Customizable Layout, GPT, AI-TTS, or so)
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I think you’ve misunderstood - theyre referring to the way Migaku clips the audio from the source material at the sentences timestamps and then generates flashcards with it to practice vocab with SM-2 SRS (FSRS is going to be implemented in the future
This is an extremely efficient way to grow vocabulary. I used LingQ with Spanish for a few months and my vocab only took off once I started using Migaku.
I agree w/ OP that LingQ would be far better if it did something similar…
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