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[Hemant Goyal]

Hi,


I think the opportunity is to have more language teaching
> software built in.  From what I saw kids could easily learn
> to open and use a particular application, and if that app had
> videos, music, and speech and simple fun tests - kids could
> learn to use it pretty quickly.


>
> If done right, the XO could become the English teacher in
> non-english public schools.


Absolutely :) Not only English but many many more languages :).

We are working on integrating speech synthesis in the XO :) [
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader,
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_synthesis]. There are tasks we need
assistance with(primarily with packaging software), if you are interested in
helping out please contact me.

Hemant
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