On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:33 +0430, Mike Dawson 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 > > 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.
Looks great Mike! You could also easily migrate to using html5's <audio> tag instead of flash. That will make the size of the application much smaller and easier to build and manipulate. It should also improve performance as u won't have to load the flash plugin. What license is SynPhony under? I am busy for next 4 weeks polishing Karma but would like to apply Karma to this -- Bryan W. Berry Senior Engineer OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel