ArtiKulate in Edu playground

Yuri Chornoivan yurchor at ukr.net
Wed Feb 6 22:12:45 UTC 2013


написане Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:57:11 +0200, Albert Astals Cid  
<aacid at kde.org>:

> 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.

That's what I meant. ;)

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


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