https://github.com/Vuizur/tatoeba-to-anki
Creates Anki Flash cards from Tatoeba sentences, ordering them by difficulty and downloading audio
https://github.com/Vuizur/tatoeba-to-anki
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Creates Anki Flash cards from Tatoeba sentences, ordering them by difficulty and downloading audio
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/Vuizur/tatoeba-to-anki
- Owner: Vuizur
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2022-05-30T17:38:59.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-03-14T17:32:26.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-01T02:21:53.692Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: anki, flashcards, language-learning, tatoeba
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 159 KB
- Stars: 11
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Tatoeba to Anki sentence pair flash card creator
[Download decks for 39 languages here](https://github.com/Vuizur/tatoeba-to-anki/releases/tag/latest)!
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This project creates Anki flashcards from a Tatoeba language pair, ordering the cards by difficulty, downloading audio from Tatoeba (and high-quality Text-To-Speech if the native audio is not available) and reducing the card number to a set maximum.
The ordering algorithm takes the average frequency of each sentence and sentence length into account.
It also removes duplicates.
Additionally it supports the generation of automatic help to lookup single words directly on the back of the card. By default, it downloads a dictionary for this automatically (limited to English definitions currently). You can also pass a custom tabfile dictionary (use [pyglossary](https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary) to convert other dictionaries).
It should work for all languages pairs.
### Running it
You should install it with `pip install git+https://github.com/Vuizur/tatoeba-to-anki` or `poetry add git+https://github.com/Vuizur/tatoeba-to-anki`.
Then use it from Python by creating a file example.py with the following content:
```python
from tatoeba_to_anki import AnkiDeckCreator
adc = AnkiDeckCreator(
"Polish", "English", max_sentence_number=6000, tts_voices="pl-PL-ZofiaNeural", in_memory_database=False
)
adc.export_anki_deck()
```
The parameter tts_voices is one (or a list) of the Edge TTS voices. For choosing the best one, you can use the read aloud function of the Edge browser. The strings you can use are listed in the `voices.txt` file under shortName.
I plan on adding more features, you can open an issue if you think something should be changed/improved or send a pull request.
### Attribution
All the sentences come from the [Tatoeba corpus](https://tatoeba.org) and are available under the [CC-BY 2.0 FR](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/).
The definitions come from [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page) and are available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
### Acknowledgements
I thank the authors of the Tatoeba project, LBeaudoux (the creator of [TatoebaTools](https://github.com/LBeaudoux/tatoebatools)) and Tatu Ylonen and the other contributors of the Wiktextract project for their hard work.
### Interesting other projects:
* This [project for generating Swedish cards](https://github.com/vvpd/anki_swedish) is pretty sophisticated and is probably worth understanding more fully
* [Sentence pairs](https://github.com/kmicklas/sentence-pairs) is a pretty simple package which has given me the idea of using the wordfreq package
* Older solutions such as [Tatoeba-Ankigeneration](https://github.com/alexanderk409/Tatoeba-anki-deckgeneration) scrape parts of the site by themselves, but that is not necessary anymore with the new downloadable data
* Interesting article: https://digitalwords.net/anki/tatoeba-audio/index.eng.html