On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:03, Mike Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > As many of the target areas for the XOs suffer from massive illiteracy > problems, and some live away from where schools will be built during > the time that they grow up and could benefit from a literacy learning > activity using home schooling. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SynPhony
Excellent. > Norbert Rennert has done work on a prototype Synthetic phonics based > application that can pick out appropriate words from a list according > to learner's levels and the phonics being stressed. Then we have > espeak that can handle text to speech. > > We can migrate this to using HTML 5 for it's database and built it as > an offline application (which could then use any other source to > update word lists etc). We can then define a means to link words to > other media such as images. > > We have no shortage of potential test beds here in Afghanistan that > could benefit massively, illiteracy is at the heart of many problems > here. If we can support the mass production of literacy learning > experiences then that could have a significant positive impact. > > Contributors both in terms of those involved in linguistics and > literacy (we have people for Dari and Pashto) as well as those > familiar with the involved technologies would be most appreciated. I > will myself be focusing on this and have reasonable experience with > Javascript, SQL, etc. We are working on a Dari version of espeak that > is in prototype at the moment. I will be happy to help in any way I can. I have worked with the espeak developers on ideas for karaoke-style marking of the text being read, and I can help document the Activity for teachers and other stakeholders. > Regards, > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
