--- Forwarded Message from "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:31:32 -0500 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7791.7 Oral testing in lab -text to voice >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> Hi, some time ago I asked to get a demo account on edufolio, and just now had time to check some of the features - nice. But what blew me away was their text to voice implementation. I simply copied a page of German text which I use as a sight reading asignment from Word into the little window and clicked on the German male voice. From previous experiences I expected a bad artificial voice struggling with the text. The result was, that within about 10 seconds I heard a very good oral rendition of my text - a little too fast maybe, and some pauses should have been more marked. But considering, that I have not read their manual, and the whole process took about 3 minutes, it was quite amazing. Anybody who is looking at text to voice should have a look at this implementation. Wolfgang PS - No I have no connection with the company or their products. At 04:40 PM 2/14/2005, you wrote: >--- Forwarded Message from "Brandon S. Lee" <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >Subject: RE: #7791 Oral testing in lab > >Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:34:30 -0500 > >Thread-Topic: #7791 Oral testing in lab > >Thread-Index: AcUOHSaczYJ1axjaSuaHWr0A8QRP6AEjLksg > >From: "Brandon S. Lee" <[log in to unmask]> > >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" ><[log in to unmask]> > >Marcella, > >I taught a course at UNC-Chapel Hill last year where we got rid of tapes >and decreased in-class time by using technology extensively. I replaced >most of the in-class repetitive exercises with web-based recordings, >recorded videos of the students that we put online, and did 90% of the >homework online. > >If you would like to see the course I taught, I set up a fake user >account that you (or anybody else) can use to see what it looks like. > >URL: http://courses.edufolio.com >Login: [log in to unmask] >Password: llti > >There are two courses: French 21 and French 2X. The 2X course has quite >a bit of recorded material. You can click on the assessments to the >right to see them/try them out. The French 21 course shows extensive >use of the discussion forums. Some of the audio from student >presentations is not great, but that is because they recorded from a >laptop with no external microphone. I required that they have a $5 >microphone, but some didn't buy it. For group work, the external mic is >recommended. For their individual assignments, the built-in mics on the >laptops worked fine. > >You need Flash Player 6+ to hear/record audio. > >Regards, >Brandon > > >-----Original Message----- >From: LLTI-Editor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:31 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: #7791 Oral testing in lab > >--- Forwarded Message from Marcella Rollmann <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:53:18 -0330 (NST) > >From: Marcella Rollmann <[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: Oral testing in lab > > >Dear Colleagues, we would like to hear about your successes or failures >with oral testing in a computer lab. What hardware, software, etc. >worked >or didn't work. > >We currently have two labs: a cassette lab for listening/speaking >practice and oral testing, and a digital lab, which we have used mostly >for writing / grammar practice. We are in the process of phasing out the >cassette lab, since there are more and more materials available with >audio >components for computer labs. We are wondering, however, how we are >going >to accomplish oral testing in the computer lab. We test hundreds of >students at the end of each semester in the cassette lab. The students >hear about 10 recorded questions and have to respond, recording their >answers. There is also a listening comprehension component, but we >foresee >no problem with that. We then collect the tapes and listen to them on >tape >recorders in our offices. How will we replace this kind of testing with >computers? Could we even use a video clip for each question and have >the >students respond to that rather than just an audio clip? Someone has >suggested WebCt might work as the management tool. Has anyone tried >this? > >Thanks for any help! >Marcella Rollmann >Assistant Professor >Department of German >Memorial University >St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada > > >*********************************************** > LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for >Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and >Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). >Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. >Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) >*********************************************** Wolfgang E. Adolph Fac. Coord. for Computer Issues Department of Mod. Lang. & Linguistics - DIF 316 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 (850) 644-8192/681-0635 (850) 644-0524 fax [log in to unmask] http://www.fsu.edu/~modlang/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Die Unsterblichkeit ist nicht jedermanns Sache. 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