Agree that this is a worthy project. Two suggestions:<br><br>1. Chunking -- It would be awesome if the word pronouncer could pronounce using "chunking" as well, the method literacy teachers use to help emergent readers learn phonics decoding skills. See links on the Phonics page for some resources about this, especially the Canadian phonics site that provides word lists with specific sound combos.
<br><br>2. Like some other activities for young children (gcompris comes to mind) it would be very beneficial to have an underlying python "word bank" library that would return word lists and (optionally) images according to a tagging scheme. This would allow an integrated focus on vocabulary lists and learning progression in a classroom setting. It should be accompanied by a means for teachers to easily supply the lists and the tagging.
<br><br>I admit that I don't know the applicability of this to the teaching of reading in languages other than English, however I have discussed this idea on #olpc-content with MartinMai of omegawiki, and he thinks it would be possible to add phonetic spelling as a field in the data and associated machine-friendly access interface there.
<br><br>Thanks for your creativity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 9:30 AM, Joshua Minor <<a href="mailto:j@lux.vu">j@lux.vu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 3, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Tom Hannen wrote:<br>> 1. Project name : TalknType<br>> 2. Existing website, if any : <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TalknType" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TalknType
</a><br><br></div>Tom, this is very cool. I might be able to help out also. I made<br>this toy that might go well with your spelling game. It is a front<br>end to espeak that looks like a face. You can type and it will speak
<br>back to you. The mouth is the audio waveform (borrowed from Measure).<br><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/images/7/7e/Speak-1.xo" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/images/7/7e/Speak-1.xo</a><br><br>-josh<br><br>
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