Your SRS companion to Alain Benbassat's “Functional Ear Trainer”
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http://www.miles.be/
Both the desktop version and mobile app implementation of “Functional Ear Trainer” is great but it lacks an SRS component. This deck allows you to further optimize your ear training via Anki's SRS.
NOTE: This deck utilizes HTML5 and Javascript for the custom Tonic Resolution Audio playing. It therefore doesn't work fully with Anki 2.0 Desktop (i.e., the back side will not play a resolution audio) but works great with the current version of AnkiDroid and Anki 2.1 Desktop (Windows). Also, not tested on Mac and iOS, and may therefore not fully work on those platforms.
The ordering of the cards has been pre-randomized, but the sequence of introduction for each card is still faithful to the original desktop program (i.e., you'll get ear training for chapter 3,1/5 first then 3,2/5 and so on...)
Shortcut Keys for “Play Resolution”
You can install the add-on “
Refocus Card when Reviewing (2.1)” to enable a handful of shortcut keys that I included in each card type's code, such as pressing the 'Q' key or even 'CTRL+Space' (check out the code for each card type, as there are conveniently more) so that you can play the tonic resolution without having to reach for the mouse.
Recommended Deck Options
I recommend
Pimsleur's graduated-interval recall for a much better learning experience, in which the learning intervals are, 5 seconds, 25 seconds, 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 5 hours, …
I also recommend setting “New cards/day” option to zero, that way you could learn each subdeck separately and at your own pace. When you're ready to learn some new cards, simply use “Custom Study” with the option to “Increase today's new card limit” – I would recommend 4 cards in the beginning, and then eventually 8 cards per day when you're confident enough.
Here's an example configuration that I particularly use:
Options group: Functional Ear Trainer
Tab: New Cards
Steps (in minutes): 0.083333333333333 0.41666666666667 2 10 60 300
Order: Show new cards in order added
New cards/day: 0
Graduating interval (days): 1
Easy interval (days): 4
Bury related new cards until the next day: Ticked
Tab: Reviews
Maximum reviews/day: 50
Bury related reviews until the next day: Not Ticked
Tab: Lapses
Steps (in minutes): 0.083333333333333 0.41666666666667 2 10 60 300
Minimum interval (days): 1
Leech threshold: 48
Tab: General
Show answer timer: Ticked
Automatically play audio: Ticked
And that's it! The other omitted options can be whatever you want, but I recommend leaving them to the defaults, as set by Anki. Feel free to customize the options though, especially when they're not working for you.
NOTE: Make sure that you also set each subdeck's deck options to the
options group you've just created, since each subdeck will have its own deck options different from the parent deck.
Have fun!