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I was wondering if it is possible to link to audio on another website instead of uploading the audio files to Google Drive. Specifically I’d like to be able to pull audio from https://forvo.com/ as it is a great source of native speaker audio.

You can add audio from URL. I assume you have a "Sound 1" or "Sound 2" column where you enter your sound file name. You can instead enter a complete URL path (http: or https:) to the direct sound file, and the import process should handle downloading. I don't think Forvo offers any html links to their direct sound files. If you get one to work, I'd be interested in hearing how you did it.

Forvo does offer a paid subscription for apps like mine, but I think they are a bit stingy on their offering, and I find it a little confusing to work with due to many different versions of a single word. Anyway, I don't have any plans to link to Forvo at this time, sorry.

Ernie

Yeah, they have some sort of embedded JavaScript that calls them from somewhere. Might try so more later but it's probably locked down pretty well.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/downloa ... rds/21064/

This is old Google service where it seems, it was possible to do what you are looking for. Here it says it was available in English language, but from what I was able to found out, it was possible to download audio files in another languages as well from Google dictionary service. Though that was discontinued in 2011, anyway thought to share with you, maybe we could find something more about it or also if there are similar services still running

I'm pretty sure how ever, you can do this with purple culture site, as I remember, I could open there in browser directly mp3 at their server locations, though they provide audios just for single character words, so that is not really solution

Text 1 Sound 1
wo https://dictionary.writtenchinese.com/sounds/wo3.mp3
tamen https://dictionary.writtenchinese.com/s ... a1men5.mp3

You can do this with written Chinese dictionary as well, they provide audio for Multicharakter words.

Up is deck example, you can try it out.

Seems, from written Chinese dictionary, you could easily in sheets change name of mp3 file (Pinyin with numbers) to get any sound files you need, of course, as long they have them. This of course works for words, but could also work for sentences maybe, as in some dictionaries they have sentences example made from words in dictionary

I'll try tomorrow pull audio files for one deck and see how often they have audio files

Made deck like this and from 477 words only for 7 of them I couldn't download audio from written Chinese dictionary