Hi All,<br><br>I would like to inform everybody that I have submitted an application for Listen and Spell which is a self voicing activity that would help children to learn new words, improve spellings and pronunciation.<br>
<br>This activity is the extension of the idea by Tom Hannen (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talkntype</a>) which is based on a 1970's toy Speak and Spell ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)</a> ). The activity would speak out a word randomly from a word list and user is expected to spell it correctly. The Activity would speak each letter as the user types on. After the user submits the word, activity would speak out the whole word and tell if it is correct or not. If not user retries the word again or change it. Also hearing the difference between the two sounds user can "feel" the difference between his and the correct spelling.<br>
<br>The application would use speech-dispatcher for voicing whose rpm is under review process and would soon be approved. I have already got approved its dependency dotconf RPM.<br><br>I wish to use word list from the Words activity ( <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/words/Words-2.xo" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/words/Words-2.xo</a>. ) to generate the list to be spoken out. This multi-lingual dictionary would be a great tool to add other different languages in the activity. I have planned to provide a "Hint" feature which would speak out either the word definition or its usage in a sentence to help user identify the word.<br>
<br>The activity will also support user defined word list which would be useful for spelling test at school level (or as a game between two or more user over mesh network). The activity can also be used as memorizing tool as many people learn more by hearing things.<br>
<br>I have created a wiki page which has been updated after my previous post ( <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell</a> ) for the describing the basic idea of the activity and discussed some of its features. I am looking for a mentor who is interested in mentoring this speech - synthesis based learning tool. <br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br>Assim Deodia | <a href="http://nsitonline.in/assim" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://nsitonline.in/assim</a> <br>Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology