[gcompris-devel] geography error

[Michel Franckart]

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 21:36, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 septembre 2007 à 16:57 +0300, Yannis a écrit :
> > In "geography" activity (Locate the countries) I can't listen the greek
> > name of the countires after the level 3. When I'm trying to the level 4
> > (North Africa) and above there isn't sound of the countries. I did the
> > ./tools/check_missing_voices.pl el and I got missing files which indeed
> > are placed to the /sounds/el/geography.
> > Any help?
> 
> This is because we never added voices for countries after level 3. I
> would like to take the opportunity to ask the question, is having the
> country spoken instead of written a very important thing for this
> activity.
> 
> A little history of this activity, originally, there was no tooltip
> displayed for each country so that it was mandatory to have voices but
> now with the tooltip, the voice is redundant. Also, is a mess to make,
> distribute and manage voices, it's best to limit their usage to cases
> where they bring a lot to the educational aspect.

Pardon me, Bruno. I find very distinct voice so important,  and even essential to introduce the child to a foreign language (English in particular, they will need it !)
But I have no idea about  the mess.

A native French speaker, like you.