Meeting with Ciara O'Toole

Similar Applications Ciara mentioned:

1. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/# - Phonetics flash animation-The Sound of Spoken Language
2. Speechviewer3 with english voice rec - no longer made
3. Visispeech
   

Phonetics:The Sounds of Spoken Language

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

VISISPEECH

An Autonomous Speech Rehabilitation System for Hearing Impaired People

Final Report

http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/olp/pdf/HARP_final_report.pdf

NOTES TAKEN WHILE READING:

• aim: to develop a visual speech training aid for hearing-impaired speakers
• suitable for use in schools
• provide advice on pronounciation errors thereby providing rehab assistance
• guides user through a set of lessons which gradually improve pronounciation (in my case vocab)
• provides a flexible, accessible and highly motivating teaching tool (I could add extensible)
• used to complement and extend services already offered (primary cirriculum for example)
• speech analysis provided
• prototype coursework provided integrating excercises in pitch, loudness, intonation, vowel & consonants
• successful attempts to exploit recent advances in multimedia suer interface such as interactive computer graphics & speech processing... the project completed a detailed investigation of how such multimedia schemes can be exploited for pronounciation teaching for hearing impaired people
• stimulating and motivational material
• bilingual-whole interface designed to be
  

EXTRA: INDIANA SPEECH TRAINING - ISTRA
The path of speech technologies in computer assisted language learning: from ...

By V. Melissa Holland, F. Peter Fisher

• stuff on HMM and common errors with training the corpus

NOTES (from meeting):it would be a good idea to integrate it with the primary school cirriculum-can download the primary school books online so can check them-try to as extension work from vocab learnt in school class room-as an optional extension to do extra work at home if they wanted.

Check school ciriculum for first and second class…APPLY IT!
And test to see if it worked/was helpful; in schools?

There are 2 types of learning : expressive and comprehension/understanding
I’m aiming at expressive so first and second class level
Before that they just learn the actual words, but im interested in their use of it

Books that may be of use:

Cead focal, the first hundred words

Buntus foclora: a children’s irish picture dictionary

Phonemes that are unique to Irish – get native speakers to pronounce

For an articulation game (not language), the apps in existence already measure pitch & loudness

GOOD WAY OF LEARNING WOULD BE TO:

To have a range of acceptability for each word rather than a straight-cut right or no & if there was a way of testing what they did incorrectly

English App Learning Games:

• http://www.manythings.org/