Hi All, As many of the target areas for the XOs suffer from massive illiteracy problems, and some live away from where schools will be built during the time that they grow up and could benefit from a literacy learning activity using home schooling.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SynPhony Norbert Rennert has done work on a prototype Synthetic phonics based application that can pick out appropriate words from a list according to learner's levels and the phonics being stressed. Then we have espeak that can handle text to speech. We can migrate this to using HTML 5 for it's database and built it as an offline application (which could then use any other source to update word lists etc). We can then define a means to link words to other media such as images. We have no shortage of potential test beds here in Afghanistan that could benefit massively, illiteracy is at the heart of many problems here. If we can support the mass production of literacy learning experiences then that could have a significant positive impact. Contributors both in terms of those involved in linguistics and literacy (we have people for Dari and Pashto) as well as those familiar with the involved technologies would be most appreciated. I will myself be focusing on this and have reasonable experience with Javascript, SQL, etc. We are working on a Dari version of espeak that is in prototype at the moment. Regards, -Mike _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel