We all know Wanikani’s weakness, context sentences. I bet many of us just skip them entirely most of the time. This script enhances the context sentences by introducing two features:
Recognizable Kanji Highlighting
Highlighting the kanji you already learned and should be able to recognize. this will encourage you to read the context sentence just to try and remember all the kanji you learned in it.
Forgot the kanji? just click on it and you will be taken to the kanji page and review it again if you must. Don’t worry this won’t affect the SRS system, if you don’t use your knowledge to read until you burn the item then you will keep forgetting to no end. Reading is the best way to reinforce your memory
Sentence Audio
Adds an audio button that uses Google Translator to read the sentence for you, thanks to @Kumirei for teaching me how to do it
Kanji Information
Hovering on kanji will reveal some information about the kanji like the level, reading, and meaning. Additionally, using @Kumirei’s Open Framework, Advanced Context Sentence can now show you JLPT level, Joyo level, and frequency of that kanji
Note: you will only get information if the kanji is on Wanikani, if not then the link will take you to the kanji page in Jisho.org and you can get all the information you need from there.
Dependencies
Wanikani Open Framework
You can still use Advanced Context Sentence normally without Wanikani Open Framework, but you’ll miss two features: change the colour of highlights, and the tooltip that shows you information about the kanji. Default highlights and Audio should work just fine
Wanikani Open Framework JLPT, Joyo, and Frequency filters
You don’t have to install this script either, but if you do you will get three more additioanl informations when hovering over a kanji: JLPT level, Joyo level, and Frequencey. as usual, make sure Advanced Context Sentence runs after this script in order for these information to appear
I spent a lot of time thinking of making a script but I had nothing in mind. As a full time payed Javascript developer I was ashamed that I use this website without taking the time to contribute something for the community. I read What do you want now? (Request extensions here) and then this comment by @someone972 took all my interest.
To be honest I didn’t look for any script that does this already, I just don’t want to know all I want is to make something. If there is any other script please feel free to link it for me and I will mention it, I will delete the script if there is another that does exactly what Advanced Context Sentence does.
Finally, should I mention that this is my first post ever? yeah… hi i guess
Changelog
Version 1.01
Fix an audio bug on Safari, thanks to @Oshin for the bug report
Version 1.02
Fix the loading screen slowness, this one “buged” me a lot
Version 1.10
Feature: Thanks to @Kumirei guidance, the script now uses Google Translator voice! a much cleaner and consistent way than Speech Synthesis Utterance
Also, the script now highlights any ungurued kanji with gray color
Version 1.11
Fix: If Wanikani Open Framework is not installed, highlight all kanji is if they were all already learned. this is neccessary because in this case the highlighting means: “hey look this is a kanji” instead of “hey look this is a kanji you should know”
Version 1.2
Feature: Now you can change the color of highlights from the new settings dialog, the settings can only be used if Wanikani Open Framework is installed
Version 1.3
Feature: Now a tooltip will show up when you hover over a kanji showing you more information!
Fix: thanks to @Belerith, a bug where the setting icon is duplicated with every lesson learned is now fixed
Fix: thanks to @Oshin, a bug where playing the audio for the word reading would play all sentences’ audio is now fixed
Version 1.31
Fix: Safari won’t play the audio for a second time on Reviews and Lessons
Version 1.32
Fix: Prevent underlines under the kanji, that used to confuse the users since it can change the whole kanji
Fix: Make the script compatible with WaniKani Breeze Dark, thanks to @Poikkax for pointing out this issue
Fix: Now if you click the audio button a second time while playing, it will stop the audio as expected
Improvement: to prevent unexpected behaviors, now this script doesn’t include Wanikani Open Framework JLPT, Joyo, and Frequency filters, you will have to download it yourself if you want these information and you have to make sure it runs before Advanced Context Sentence.
Version 1.34
As requested by @AnimeCanuck, you can now change which SRS level should the script consider it ‘recognizable’. default to Guru
Also, it’s now compatible with the new version of JLPT, Joyo, and Frequency Filters version 0.1.4
*Version 1.40
Enhance the tooltip, you can now disable it, change it’s position, and set a delay before showing it
Wow! Thank you for this!! I love it I’ve tested it on Safari (the audio doesn’t work, I guess it’s the move on type just like IE then I presume?) and Chrome (both highlight and audio works well) ~ Mojave.
I put it on The New And Improved List Of API and Third Party Apps under Dashboard section, because I can see this script’s effect on lesson and review and kanji/vocab page. For others who can edit the wiki, feel free to edit it to make it better, like placing it to a better more specific section, maybe?
Thank you!
Don’t worry Safari supports Speech Synthesis Utterance, it’s my fault for not checking what language type does each browser support. I already fixed the issue and will update the script once i fully test it again. I will also restrict it to /review/session, /lesson/session and /vocabulary pages, can’t believe i forgot to do it from the beginning.
I will definitely join the competition too!
I do that too! Actually, one drawback of this script is that once you know a sentence has a kanji you never learned you’re more likely to skip it hahaha
THIS IS AWESOME! Can’t believe we get to use that for free, I kinda feel guilty about it. thanks for the guidance
I believe it’s the same, anyway it’s far more better than html 5 text to speech, the only drawback is that we can’t guarantee this trick will work all the time.
I really don’t understand why you made a script for example sentences in Bunpro, they already have audio.
anyway can you please share your script with me? i tired fetching using the url but with no luck, looks like it only works from the browser not the js code. 教えて下さい、クミレイ先輩！
They don’t have it for all sentences yet, and when I made it they didn’t have audio for many.
Oh, looks like I forgot part of the trick. Sorry, it was a long time ago and I didn’t really understand the trick to it at the time either.
// In order to avoid getting 404 for the audio you need to remove the referrer
var remRef = document.createElement('meta');
remRef.name = 'referrer';
remRef.content = 'no-referrer';
document.querySelector('head').append(remRef);
// The way I did it was create audio and source elements containing the link
var audio = '<audio class="TTS" controls>'+
' <source src="https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&tl=ja&total=1&idx=0&q='+sentence+'" type="audio/mpeg">'+
'</audio>'
// Then I just inserted the element into the page
$(elem).after(audio);
Finally got to try this out, I love it! Does exactly what I wanted when I suggested the extension and the audio is a nice addition. I’m going to get a lot of use out of this
I did have to make one change to the audio section; in the script the rate is set to 11, but on Firefox at least the default rate should be 1 (the audio was playing really fast). After doing that, my home computer was able to play the audio just fine. For some reason my computer at work isn’t installing the speech synthesizers from the Japanese language pack, and since Firefox uses the device’s speech synth nothing would play. So potentially an improvement might be to check the window.speechSynthesis.getVoices() for a voice with lang ‘ja-JP’ and give some form of alert if it doesn’t exist? Note that you may have to call getVoices twice, it looks like the initial call returns an empty list for some reason. Chrome looks like it has a Japanese voice synth built in so audio shouldn’t be a problem for that browser.
It seems to have a conflict with the “Markdown Notes” script (or maybe that was only because I had a modified version of that script, who knows) so I disabled the markdown script.
One thing I found confusing was the color coding: based on WaniKani standards I initially thought that pink = kanji in Apprentice state and purple = kanji in Guru state. I know that this is explained in your description but I would be willing to bet that I’m not the only user who didn’t read the whole thing before installing the script
But those were super minor issues, all in all it seems super helpful. Thank you!
Thanks! I’m going to implement next then, I’m planing to make it the default and fall back to the browser’s audio in case of any error ( which will definitely happen if google changed a single thing in the url )
Glad you liked it, for some reason i can’t install Opera on my Mac to test it for you. but I’m planing on using google translator’s voice any way and I hope it will somehow fix it for you
what a detailed review. strange, I use firefox as my default browser and found that rate 11 is the best and most natural. maybe it’s different from machine to machine or version to version? anyway, as I told Floregaku, I’m planing to use google translator’s voice. it’s much better and browser-independent
it would be hard to test compatibilities with other scripts, but I will have a look at this particular one for you since you brought it up.
Edit: I tested Markdown Notes but didn’t encounter any conflict, is it this script or am i wrong?
to be honest I’m not proud of the color selection at all, in fact i hate it. but what color would you give to a locked kanji? tell me what you think
Maybe I was using an outdated copy then because that is the script. I’m really sorry for wasting your time… But thanks a lot for checking!
Since they are not active yet, I would have expected them to be gray. Usually I would say bold and gray but that might not work well with kanji (never tried it and right now I’m on mobile otherwise I‘d try it now). The special highlighting for „hey, you are supposed to know this one!“ is really helpful but it loses a lot of its „specialness“ since purple and pink are so similar (both in hue and expected meaning). That‘s my opinion at least. Colors… almost everyone has an opinion
I’ve tested it on Safari (the audio doesn’t work, I guess it’s the move on type just like IE then I presume?) and Chrome (both highlight and audio works well) ~ Mojave.
So this is perfect.
But thanks a lot for checking!