[IAEP] sounds in Speak

2009-07-28 Thread Sameer Verma 
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.

I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language,
right?

cheers,
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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Re: [IAEP] sounds in Speak

2009-07-28 Thread forster 
 I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language,
 right?

There is a dictionary for each language (eg. en_dict for English) which is 
compiled from a rules file and a list file, you can find a description of the 
syntax for these files in the dictionary documentation

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/dictionary.html

from
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Modifying_Activities#Modifying_Speak

Tony

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Re: [IAEP] sounds in Speak

2009-07-28 Thread Nicco Eneidi 
Sameer,
This is very interesting, I think an educational website that I have seen do
this properly is the Alphabet activity on www.starfall.com

I've used this site quite a bit with my kindergarten and first grade
students in the past and have even seen it in use with Adult Ed students at
an adult literacy program locally.

I believe Starfall uses a combination of calling the letter by name but also
placing an emphasis on the sound that the letter makes in different words.

-Nicco

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu 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.

 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/

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