🎉 New Bunpro, KaniWani, Kitsun.io plugins now available!

[Miko]

The awesome @michiakig has developed new LipSurf plugins for Japanese language learners!

Now you can BunPro (for Japanese grammar) or Kitsun.io (for Japanese vocabulary) completely hands-free!
They are still in the early stages, so if you run into any issues, please describe them here so @michiakig or myself can take a look.

Kitsun.io plugin:
Kitsun.0-0-3.0.ls (19.5 KB)

KaniWani plugin:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okonomichiyaki/plugins/kaniwani/dist/KaniWani.0-0-1.0.ls

Bunpro plugin:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okonomichiyaki/plugins/bunpro-new-timeline/dist/Bunpro.0-0-2.0.ls

Here’s how you install custom plugins in LipSurf: https://help.lipsurf.com/configuration/custom-plugins.html

[Miko]

Updated to include the KaniWani plugin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okonomichiyaki/plugins/kaniwani/dist/KaniWani.0-0-1.0.ls

[michiakig]

The Bunpro plugin was also updated with these changes (new version linked in the original post)

• fix: activate on correct URL
• fix: match answers that include particles, e.g. のわりに. this should work in general for answers with particles like this, however this particular phrase snags on the speech recognition in my experience (it hears 終わりに)
• fix: match answers that include kanji. eg 全然, 来ます
• improvement: fuzzy match on は particle to allow it to be pronounced “wa”

[Samuel_Anderson]

This is awesome,

Took a little bit getting use to but works well. Thank you.

I am using the bunpro.

[Samuel_Anderson]

I have used it for a few hours now on Bunpro. It works well, but some times I get the answer right but it does not in input it. And it is hard to know if you get it right or wrong because it does not show a hint or any thing after 3 times like lipsurf on the wanikani.

So I have been just saying it once and typing it in if it does not work. I have been typing in %60 or so. Because I don’t want to say だめ if I type in it correct.

Thank you for making this. (=

[michiakig]

@Samuel_Anderson

And it is hard to know if you get it right or wrong because it does not show a hint or any thing after 3 times like lipsurf on the wanikani.

Thanks for trying the plug in and for the feedback, adding a hint mode after several tries is a good idea, I will look into it.

And thanks for the example of 来てよかった, I will try to reproduce it. If you have any other example grammar items they would be helpful

[Samuel_Anderson]

I will collect them, if I run in to any more. Thanks again for making this. I was doing dictate in bunpro and editing out the kanji. This is way better (=

[Samuel_Anderson]

Hi, I should have probably noticed earlier but for me it does not recognize any words I say with kanji. Only simple grammar that is only hiragana.

[michiakig]

Hi thanks for the extra info. There was a fix for some kanji answers, unfortunately the new version doesn’t fix the problem in all cases, your example of 来てよかった is one of them.

The bad news is that fixing this is going to be challenging, and I haven’t really had time to look into it recently. But I have some ideas and I’ve also reached out to Bunpro asking for assistance. I will post here with any updates either way

[michiakig]

Update: I heard back from Bunpro already and they agreed to make a change to the site code to make the LS plugin more robust. No timeline on when this will happen (I will need to update the plugin after) but if all goes well it should solve many/all problems with failing to capture the answers

I will post back here when the fix is implemented and available for download

[michiakig]

Thanks to the Bunpro developer(s) the new version of the plugin is a vast improvement, in my limited testing. Answers with kanji, particles, conjugated verbs, and more are all working for me. Here is the new code: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/okonomichiyaki/plugins/bunpro_v0.0.3/dist/Bunpro.0-0-3.0.ls

Please let me know if anyone finds any issues with it

[Miko]

Amazing

[Samuel_Anderson]

I have used it for about an hour so far. no problems. Thank you very much. This is really awesome. What a great app to have voice input. some of the conjugations are crazy long and this such a more natural way of doing it.