Phrasealator

[Mia Kalish]

Sorry, I didn’t explain myself correctly. 

 

What I meant was that the toys are going for about $40; the program that
teaches singing is about $99. This means that the technology to do both
production and recognition is really cheap. So $3300 for one unit, based on
these standards, is really expensive. Then, whatever it is is not so
intuitive that you can learn to use it without $4500 worth of training. In
technology, unless you are buying from IBM, you don’t usually pay a high
price for the hardware and ALSO for the training. 

 

Why don’t you put your stuff on the computer using Macromedia Flash? It’s
easy, it’s cheap, its fun for people to build, especially for the students.
And if you need fonts, I’ll build them for you. You won’t need to pay me
half a million dollars. Flash movies can be downloaded to cell phones and
PDA’s. If Native people got together as a group, we could probably convince
a manufacturer to build something like Sony’s Playstation so we could
download the software and learners could carry them around. 

 

:-) 

Mia

 

 

 

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Andre Cramblit
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:01 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Phrasealator

 

Yeah teh prices are steep I agree.  I was not considering the toys so much
as the phrasealotor to be used in documentation efforts and to be used as a
talking dictionary

 

 

On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Mia Kalish wrote:





I checked out the web page, Andre. The people said they built software for
Tribes, but they didn’t identify as Tribal. (My personal bias, I guess).

 

And this of this: look at the toys on the market for language. . . then look
at the prices they want to charge Tribes.

 

Mia

 

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Andre Cramblit
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:49 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Phrasealator

 

As there have been no replies am I to assume no one has any experience with
this?

 

 

On Mar 25, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Andre Cramblit wrote:


oops the unit is $3300 and $2500 for the software and training

 

 

On Mar 25, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Andre Cramblit wrote:


I am at the Language is life conference at the marin Headlands sponsored by
the Advocates for Californian Indigenous Language ( <http://www.aicls.org>
www.aicls.org) and I am sitting in a presentation for the Phrase-a-lator.
Does anyone have any experince with this and feedback. www.ndntv.com It
seems pretty good but is pricey ($330 unit $2500 software)

 





 

.:. 

 

André Cramblit: andre.p.cramblit.86 at alum.dartmouth.org is the Operations
Director Northern California Indian Development Council NCIDC
(http://www.ncidc.org) is a non-profit that meets the development needs of
American Indians

 

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