Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 14 December 2009 09:00:23 pm Aleksey Lim wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the *sound* of the letter a. Montessori teachers teach the shape

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Dec 2009, at 15:30, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the *sound* of the

[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread forster
Speak has editable dictionaries which control the sound, for each language there is a rules and list file It should be possible to edit them to make the sounds of individual letters, its certainly possible to do the opposite, sound the name of the letters in abbreviations eg. OLPC

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 14 December 2009 09:00:23 pm Aleksey Lim wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the sound of the letter a. Montessori teachers teach the shape