[seul-edu] Re: [ddlinux] reading and pronunciation tutor software on linux

[jeff@smluc.org]

Hi James,

Wow!  I know I'm interested.  I'll check out the url's you give below at
my next earliest convenience....:)

I have forwarded this response to the seul-edu list and kidsgames as I
think we can garner some support from the people working on these
projects.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, James Salsman wrote:

-->Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:47:10 -0800 (PST)
-->From: James Salsman <jsalsman@bovik.org>
-->To: ddlinux@leb.net
-->Subject: [ddlinux] reading and pronunciation tutor software on linux
-->
-->I got my copy of the LDC/CMU Kids Speech Corpus today; it cost
-->$230, but the new contract gives me the right to share it with 
-->others (the only caveat is that I have to fill out a form for 
-->everyone who accesses it).
-->
-->I'm pretty happy because these two CDs are filled with the speech 
-->of grade-school children as they try to read unfamiliar text. 
-->
-->So, I'd like to find out who is interested in developing some 
-->educational software to teach reading and/or pronunciation on 
-->Linux.  I sure do; I've written some essays about this:
-->
-->  http://www.bovik.org/phone-read
-->  http://www.bovik.org/proposal-detail
-->  http://www.bovik.org/s867.html
-->
-->I'm tending towards using HTK, because it has a licence that would 
-->be very friendly to this project, and includes training routines.
-->Also I like LVQ-PAK for the VQ if any.  HTK was pretty popular in 
-->the InSTIL working group, http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil/
-->
-->So, please send me mail if you're interested.
-->
-->Cheers,
-->James
-->bovik@best.com = jsalsman@bovik.org
-->
-->
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