LipSurf - WaniKani Voice Dictation. Review while you eat, do chores, etc

What is your accent? Struggling with English or Japanese? It might be useful to try changing to a different dialect of English via the options.

This is really cool! Is there a phone version?

What should I choose as a non native speaker? Is it gonna discriminate me? :confused:

It depends what dialect your main teacher spoke, (or if it was something like TV shows, what country were they from?)

Yes, it’s been in the works. Can you email us with your phone platform (iOS or Android) - and we’ll send you an email with a link when the next version is ready.

v4.2.0 fixes an issue with the automatic hint showing for Japanese even when the setting was off, and adds manual commands for “show hint”/ヒント

I watched just as many brittish youtubers as I did americans. I speak a random mixture that varies depending on which way I subcounsciously find easier to say the words. I say “better” in an american way and “powerful” in a brittish way. The vowels I don’t even know which way I’m saying

I guess I’ll try the software first tell you what worked.

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Im lazy and tired to type but it so much easier for me with your addon.
It is very good.
Thank you very much.
You just made my day.

Well I was pretty excited, spent an hour to get it set up. But
 looks like it’s no longer free. Hard sell to have me pay money if I can’t even tell if it’s going to work. Also appears to be subscription only, which is gross. Was able to try the transcribe function at least
 and it’s
 ok. Hard thing to do well and its better than dragonspeak 20 years ago, but google on my phone is so much better. Rarely misses a word and this is at about 80% which is more frustrating than useful. But maybe it just doesn’t like my snowball mic.

I just subscribed. The session always times out after a while even though I’m still using it. Any fixes for this?

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Hmm this is probably because WaniKani is looking for mouse click or keyboard events to decide whether a session is active, instead of seeing whether the user is clicking buttons. @viet can you chime in?

Yeah. I get that. It defeats the purpose of the voice dictation though. I can probably use an app to click once in a while, just wondering if there’s an alternative.

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I’ll hack a mouse click in on an interval timer, we’ll see if it works!

I’ve just fixed this and released in in 4.11.2. Enjoy!

Feel free to leave us a review if you’re inclined: LipSurf - Voice Control for the Web - Chrome Web Store

Is it working fine for you now? Shouldn’t session timeout anymore.

Sorry for the super delayed reply.

Yes, it’s working great. Thank you so much! Hope you had a wonderful meal.

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As of today’s update, LipSurf now supports the “extra study” lessons. Enjoy!

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Hi there @mikob

Loving LipSurf – completely changed my approach to WK for the better, it’s the main reason why I’ve built back my habits.

There have recently been breaking changes in the UserScript API (Updates to Lessons, Reviews and Extra Study are live). Would be great if you could update the script to account for this, can’t use WK without LipSurf now.

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Thanks for your motivating words!

We are looking into the changes and will make a fix soon.

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Any time frame on the fix? I really want to go back to using LipSurf with WaniKani!

Hi, sorry for the delay. We’ve rewritten the WaniKani plugin and it’s working again as of now, please give it a try! Also, FYI we are going to raise the price soon because maintaining the WaniKani plugin is a lot of work.

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Just started using LipSurf and I’m definitely seeing the potential for this to be the only way I use WaniKani, but I’m having issues with commands during lessons. I’m unable to go to the next item using “next” (as far as I can tell none of the lesson controls are working for me). The reviews are working perfectly though! Any idea what could be going wrong for me?