<a href="http://synphony.wiki.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge.net: synphony ť home</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 03:01, Seth Woodworth <<a href="mailto:seth@isforinsects.com">seth@isforinsects.com</a>> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Neal Scogin <<a href="mailto:neal.scogin@sbcglobal.net">neal.scogin@sbcglobal.net</a>> > Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM > Subject: [support-gang] Language Learning Courseware > To: Laptop Support <<a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a>> > > 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. </div>Hi Neal, this sounds like an awesome project. I have found the following regarding pronunciation evaluation: <a href="https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=%28un%29Conference_2008_Notes:_SPHINX_II" target="_blank">https://www.stanford.edu/group/opensource/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=(un)Conference_2008_Notes:_SPHINX_II</a> <a href="http://www.google.cz/search?q=related:www.meraka.org.za/pubs/JACBadenhorst.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.google.cz/search?q=related:www.meraka.org.za/pubs/JACBadenhorst.pdf</a> <a href="http://www.meraka.org.za/pubs/JACBadenhorst.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.meraka.org.za/pubs/JACBadenhorst.pdf</a> Hope that helps and feel free to ask any other questions here in IAEP or in sugar-devel: <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/</a> Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div>