Userscript which provides audio for any items you are learning which have none.
The easiest method is through an extension/add-on on chrome/firefox:
- Chrome: install the Tampermonkey extension
- Firefox: install the Greasemonkey add-on
Then add the script using the following link: https://github.com/cooljingle/memrise-audio-provider/raw/master/Memrise_Audio_Provider.user.js
Once the script is installed and enabled, you can simply continue your learning on memrise and the script will kick in whenever required. You can access some script options via clicking the Audio Provider link in the left side bar:
- audio for this course - pick which column the script uses to generate audio for the course
- Voice RSS key - API key for Voice RSS (see next section)
The script has three different methods to generate audio:
Speech Synthesis is available on chrome on a select number of languages. For firefox it currently works (firefox 44+) for English and Mandarin Chinese, but also requires you to navigate to about:config and set media.webspeech.synth.enabled to true. (Update - this was set to true by default in firefox 49)
Failing this, the script will try generating audio via google's tts api. This has support for a large number of languages, but the audio generation may drop out temporarily as google has imposed limits to prevent abuse of the system.
Voice RRS is the last port of call; to use it you will have to go to http://www.voicerss.org/ and register an account. Once this is done you will receive an API key which you will need to input into the audio options; it provides 350 free requests per day.
If you come across any issues or have a suggestion you can leave your feedback in the forum thread: https://community.memrise.com/t/userscript-memrise-audio-provider/10133