============================================================================== AMINTE FAQ ============================================================================== Aminte is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by LingQ or the Anki/AnkiConnect projects. CONTENTS 1. Setup 2. Cards 3. Audio 4. Languages 5. Privacy and misc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SETUP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: What do I need before Aminte works? Three things: this extension, Anki desktop with the free AnkiConnect add-on (Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons -> code 2055492159, then restart Anki), and a LingQ account logged in in the same browser. That's it. No configuration files to edit. Q: "AnkiConnect not reachable." What's wrong? In almost every case: Anki isn't running, or AnkiConnect isn't installed. Open Anki, then click Test Anki in the popup. If it still fails and you're on an old version of AnkiConnect, you may need to whitelist the extension: open Anki -> Tools -> Add-ons -> AnkiConnect -> Config, and add chrome-extension:// to the webCorsOriginList array, where is shown next to Aminte at chrome://extensions. Restart Anki afterward. Current AnkiConnect versions don't need this. Q: "No lesson detected." Aminte reads the lesson that's open in the reader. The URL should contain /reader/. Open a lesson (not the library or course page), reload the tab once if you just installed or updated the extension, and try again. Q: Does Anki need to stay open? Yes, whenever you send cards. Aminte talks to the Anki desktop app on your own computer; if Anki isn't running, there's nothing to talk to. After sending, sync Anki to push the new cards to your phone and AnkiWeb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CARDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: How are cards created? One cloze card per word + sentence. The word is blanked out of the sentence it appeared in (plus optional neighboring sentences for context), with the word, your selected meanings, and the sentence translation on the back. Q: Why didn't every occurrence of a word become a card? The First occurrence only option (on by default) creates a card only for a word's first appearance in the lesson, to keep card volume manageable. Turn it off to get one card per occurrence. Q: What do the level checkboxes do? They filter which word statuses become cards: 1 New through 5 Known. The default (1–3) is recommended, because levels 4 and 5 are words you already know and they can flood your review queue. Q: I re-sent a lesson. Did I get duplicates? No. Cards are matched by a hidden Key (word + its sentence) and updated in place, preserving your review history. Only an identical word and sentence counts as the same card, so the same word from a different sentence is a new card on purpose. Q: I changed a setting (context, accent, tags). Do old cards update? Yes. Re-send the lesson and existing cards are updated in place. Tags are added, never removed: a re-send applies the popup's current tags on top of whatever tags the cards already have, so tags you added by hand in Anki are never touched. (This also makes bulk cleanups easy: re-send with a fresh tag, then work with -tag: searches in Anki's Browse.) Because tags are only ever added, turning on "Disable automatic Anki tags" in Advanced settings stops the language and course tags going on new sends - it does not remove them from cards you already have. Delete those in Anki's Browse if you want them gone. Q: Can I export a whole course at once? No. One lesson at a time, from the reader. This likely will not change as it is important to us to respect LingQ and their servers. Q: Is it safe to rename, move, or reorganize decks in Anki? Renaming the note type requires care during upgrades (see below). Moving cards between decks is safe but note that re-sends target the deck named in the popup. Q: I upgraded from an old version and Send refuses, mentioning a note type. Old versions named the Anki note type "aminte-cloze" (through v1.0.4). Rename yours once in Anki: Tools -> Manage Note Types -> select the old name -> Rename -> type exactly aminte. Every card and its review history carries over. The extension deliberately refuses to send until this is done, so you can't end up with duplicates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AUDIO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: How does audio work? When enabled, Aminte attaches native text-to-speech audio for the word and/or its sentence to each card, in the voice you pick. The Include pills choose which. Sentence clips are the slower, trial-budget-heavier half; word-only audio is a fast, light option. Word clips are shared across all your decks in a language, so a given word only ever needs generating once; sentence clips are stored per deck. Q: Why is the first audio send slow? Generation is rate-limited upstream, so requests are paced (about 1.2s apart). A large lesson can take a few minutes the first time. Clips are cached per deck afterward, so re-sends are instant. Q: Some clips "failed." Occasional generation failures happen; failed clips are retried on your next send and filled in then. Nothing else about the card is affected. Q: What do the Clear audio buttons do? "Clear deck audio" deletes the generated sentence clips for the deck named in the popup (shared word clips are kept); "Clear all audio" deletes every clip the extension ever stored, including shared word clips. Cards regenerate missing audio on the next send. Q: Why don't cards autoplay / why do they always autoplay? Anki controls this, not Aminte: it's the "Automatically play audio" setting in each deck's options. Q: Is audio a paid feature? Yes. Audio is a one-time purchase (via ExtensionPay/Stripe); everything else is free forever. Every install can generate its first 150 clips free to try the feature; after that, click Unlock next to the audio checkbox to purchase, or Restore purchase if you've already paid on another browser or computer. If your trial runs out mid-send, the send still completes. The remaining cards simply skip audio, and unlocking fills them in on a later send. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LANGUAGES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: Which languages work? Theoretically, any language LingQ supports. Matching is deliberately literal: spelling variants (e.g. Russian e folding) are treated as separate words, exactly as LingQ treats them. Non-space-delimited languages like Chinese and Japanese work, including phrases. Q: A phrase card wasn't created for a sentence I expected. Phrases must appear as whole words in a single sentence. A phrase that spans two sentences, or that only appears embedded inside a longer word, won't produce a card for that sentence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRIVACY AND MISC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: What data does Aminte collect? None. See the privacy policy: https://aminte-ext.com/privacy.txt. Everything runs locally in your browser. The extension talks only to lingq.com (as you, to read your lessons), to Anki on your own computer, and, only if the paid audio unlock is enabled, to ExtensionPay to check purchase status. Q: Something broke after a LingQ update :( Aminte works with LingQ's internal interfaces, which can change without notice. If cards suddenly stop generating, check for an extension update; these breakages will be fixed as soon as possible.