[Sugar-devel] Add ability to record to Speak?

[Caroline Meeks]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Muriel de Souza Godoi <
murielgodoi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been away from Sugar for a long time... but keep reading the mailing
> lists :)
>
> I will be on vacation until July 20th, but after that  I can face this as a
> new effort to help Sugar
>
> What about a different approach? Add the speak capability to memorize...
>
> Can memorize just use the speak library and pronounce the cards?
> What do you think?


Thats an interesting idea too!  Especially if you could have the speak face
on the card doing the talking.  He is so engaging.  I think you want the
capability to not show the print as the idea might well be to recognize the
sounds and match them to the written word.

Thanks!

>
>
> Muriel
>
> 2009/7/8 Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>
>
>> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:55:36PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We worked with 3rd going into 4th graders at the GPA in Boston today
>> making
>> > memorize games using social studies terms.  The kids drew pictures and
>> added
>> > them to the memorize game.
>> >
>> > The kids are very interested in "making the computer talk".   The lab
>> > computers (this is SoaS not XO) have headsets but do not have
>> microphones.
>> >
>> > What I'd like to do is let the kids type into Speak, record it, then use
>> > that recording in their memorize games.
>> >
>> > I'm hoping that someone will find this easy and be able to give me a new
>> > version of Speak by next Weds? :)
>>
>> But current Speak version can record sounds and save recorded sounds to
>> the journal.
>>
>> There could be one issue with setting up record volums(since 0.84 doesnt
>> let users control it) but it could be fixed by "alsamixer -V capture"
>> command from Terminal, later SoaS should store these settings between
>> boot sessions.
>>
>> --
>> Aleksey
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>
>
>
> --
> Muriel de Souza Godoi
> Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
>



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