On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 03:01, Seth Woodworth <s...@isforinsects.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Neal Scogin <neal.sco...@sbcglobal.net> > Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM > Subject: [support-gang] Language Learning Courseware > To: Laptop Support <support-g...@laptop.org> > > I am developing courseware (a complete methodology) that utilizes Sugar > (primarily the collaboration - mesh networking features) to learn > languages. I have recently found someone to help me with Arabic and so now > I am working on Arabic-English and Spanish-English. I am interested in > using the International Phonetic Alphabet for some of the work. > > I would like to have some software that can evaluate spoken language to > check for pronunciation. When I purchased some Spanish learning software > years ago that was one of the features. Obviously, I am looking for open > source software. > > In addition, any advice on software tools for the courseware will be > appreciated.
Hi Neal, this sounds like an awesome project. I have found the following regarding pronunciation evaluation: https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=(un)Conference_2008_Notes:_SPHINX_II http://www.google.cz/search?q=related:www.meraka.org.za/pubs/JACBadenhorst.pdf http://www.meraka.org.za/pubs/JACBadenhorst.pdf Hope that helps and feel free to ask any other questions here in IAEP or in sugar-devel: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
