On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > Hello everybody, > > This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, > about Speak. She asked me why Speak says "a" when "a" is pressed and not the > *sound* of the letter "a". Montessori teachers teach the shape and sound of > letters first, and then the name of the alphabet. I did not have an answer > for her, but I wondered if it would be possible to have an option in Speak > to do so.
not sure it could be done in existed Speak(it just passes string to speak engine). But it could separate activity or mode in Speak which teaches alphabet. > I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language, > right? > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
