"Emoji Flashcards" is a tool to help generate Anki flashcards from emoji/text/audio pairings. These emoji flashcards are meant to be used at the beginning of language learning, in order to give some confidence in vocabulary and act as a supplement for more language-specific learning. These are not intended to be a list of "most common words", but rather are a list of pictographic words that are hopefully fairly translatable across many languages and cultures. This is NOT a flashcard studying app by itself.
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You can help improve translations! Read our Contribution Guide and join our Discord to learn more!
The only prerequisite to running Emoji Flashcards is Deno. There are also a few optional requirements, which are needed for specific tasks.
| task | description |
|---|---|
deno task start |
Runs the Emoji Flashcards website |
deno task test |
Makes sure everything works. Please run this before making a PR |
deno task gen:anki |
Generates Anki Decks from data. Use this to build decks from source |
deno task gen:audio es-ES |
Generates audio files from data. It is NOT recommended to use this task if you are trying to contribute by adding new translations, since I will need to run it again later anyways. Requires a local installation of ffmpeg, and a Azure API key |
deno task gen:text |
Generates translations from source. Requires a DeepL and/or Azure API key |
- data is where all the language-specific stuff is; translations, extensions, plugins, templates (note: for filesize constraints, audio and anki decks are generated here, but not stored).
- main.ts is the entrypoint for the website. All the other website client and templating is stored in www.
- tasks contains all the non-website scripts (every
deno task xxxcommand) - utilities is all the logic shared between the scripts, website, and plugins.
- Icon is from Google's Emoji Kitchen: Noto Color Emoji
- Initial Text-to-Speech is generated by Microsoft Azure AI. Audio may be replaced on a word-to-word basis.
- Initial translations are from DeepL and Microsoft Azure AI. Translations may be replaced on a word-to-word basis.
- Emoji Flashcards includes code from genanki and genanki-js; I modified a bit to fit my purposes, but that is all the contained within
./utilities/genanki, and their licenses apply to their code.