ArtiKulate in Edu playground

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 6 de febrer de 2013, a les 22:02:13, Yuri Chornoivan va escriure:
> написане Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:14:21 +0200, Andreas Cord-Landwehr
> 
> <phoenixx at uni-paderborn.de>:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I would like to give a short heads up for a new language learning (or
> > more
> > specifically: a pronunciation learning) application, that arrived in the
> > KDE Edu playground last night. It's called "ArtiKulate" and aims to help
> > for
> > the following language learning problem:
> > 
> > When learning a new language, usually the following skills must be
> > accomplished: writing, reading, speaking, and understanding. For writing
> > and
> > reading a lot of materials and software programs (e.g., Parley for
> > learning
> > vocabulary) exist. But the important field of speaking and correct
> > pronunciation of words and sentences is barely considered, yet, though
> > it is
> > one of the most important skills in real life.
> > 
> > ArtiKulate shall help to tackle this problem down and provide a useful
> > application to improve pronunciation skills. It works/will work as
> > follows:
> > * the user can select a language, a course, and either a topic (like
> > sentences
> > needed e.g. in a restaurant) or a problematic sound (like e.g. the "th"
> > sound
> > in English).
> > * the user then gets a set of sentences in increasing difficulty (here
> > difficulty means the length of the sentences)
> > * the user then plays a recording of a native speaker who speaks this
> > sentence
> > (the recording is shipped with the course) [see below for the problem on
> > how
> > to get those recording]
> > * after this, the user records its own voice when speaking the sentence
> > and
> > can compare both recordings
> > * if the user is not happy with her/his recording, she/he repeats the
> > previous
> > step
> > 
> > The concept is quite simple and the application is not very hard to write
> > (well, the devil lives in the details as I learned again the last nights
> > when
> > implementing the recording functionality...). What now arrived in
> > playground
> > is a very basic UI (I plan to make it nice, once the functionality is in
> > place), the functionality for the user to select courses, play sentences,
> > record sounds (Selection of problematic syllables is current work in
> > progress). And the next important step will be the creation of an editor
> > for
> > the units as well as a merging tool for courses/recordings of different
> > users.
> > 
> > The plan for the time after both, the basic functionality is done and
> > the UI
> > reached a state that I would not be ashamed to show a user, still the
> > most
> > important task remains: Preparing and collection courses and recordings
> > of
> > native speakers. I have early plans on how to accomplish that, but will
> > again
> > write about that once the application itself is in a good shape.
> > 
> > Finally, I would like to invite everybody who is interested in this
> > application to follow its development (now in the public at
> > https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/edu/artikulate) or even
> > join its
> > development.
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Andreas
> > 
> > 
> > Link to the source code:
> > https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/edu/artikulate
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Many thanks for the new application. It looks like the idea is very good.
> 
> However, there is a little problem. There is no i18n( ) markup in QML
> files. Is it suppose to be translated?

There is i18n for QML, if it's not there it should be added.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Thanks in advance for your answer.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri
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