<div dir="ltr">Thanks Richard for your kind words. It is really encouraging.<div><br></div><div>dan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Richard Zane Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rzs@wildblue.net" target="_blank">rzs@wildblue.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Thanks Dan,<br></div>I use your ACORNS program all the time...atleast the old one :-) ....and you were so helpful as i set it up.<br><br></div>I have a VERY difficult time when I upload a program and there are 40,000 words of information, much that doesn't seem to apply to my needs.<br></div>I can get a literal headache and begin to feel like i must be stupid or something. I know i can't be the only one who feels this way.<br></div><div>When i begin to shut down I begin to think maybe i can't DO language revitalization...its disabilitating ! (wow, thats an actual word?)<br></div>You have proved that you will work with a person to get a program working to satisfy what we need it for.<br> I appreciate that and know you do it out of sheer generosity and a desire to really help FN people in language recovery.<br></div>tižamęh!<br></div>Richard Zane Smith (Wyandot)<br></div>Working with our Wandat language <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Mark Oppenneer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@ethnosproject.org" target="_blank">mark@ethnosproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Dan,<div><br></div><div>I have shared your release announcement on the Ethnos Project blog (<a href="http://www.ethnosproject.org" target="_blank">http://www.ethnosproject.org</a>). Please let me know if you'd like to add/change anything. Thanks for sharing this with us.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.ethnosproject.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,130,173);text-decoration:none;line-height:18.200000762939453px" target="_blank"><table style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border-spacing:0px" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;height:30px"> </td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:1" align="left" valign="top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><img alt="Ethnos Project" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block" height="48" width="48"></div></td><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:8px"> </td><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;height:48px;line-height:0.9" align="left" valign="middle"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:18px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Mark D. Oppenneer</div><div style="margin:2px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">Ethnos Project</div></td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;height:20px"> </td></tr></tbody></table></a><br></div></div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dan Harvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harveyd@sou.edu" target="_blank">harveyd@sou.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">We are
pleased to announce the release of ACORNS version 8.0 and the Sound Editor
version 2. Both of these applications are available for free download from <a href="http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd/acorns" target="_blank">http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd/acorns</a> </span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%"> </span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">The ACORNS
project’s goal is to support tribal programs to revitalize indigenous languages
and cultures. Its audience includes language teachers who, with their students,
create digital lessons for practice outside of class. The ACORNS application
supports ten categories of language learning lessons.</span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%"> </span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">The new
release provides a mobile player application for Android compatible devices. It
maintains a gallery of ACORNS lessons. These lessons, created from version 8.0,
can be distributed to the device by email, by cloud-based services (ex. Drop
Box), or by web-based hyperlinks.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%"><br></span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">This version
also integrates language independent speech recognition into the question and
answer lesson. Namely, students can respond verbally to questions posed by the
creator of the lesson. If their answer matches one of the legitimate sentences,
the program responds with a positive feedback audio.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%"><br></span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">The Sound
Editor version 2 can encode audio recordings in mp3 format. It also provides a
third audio work area (instead of two) and incorporates a pitch algorithm that
enables audio to be sped up (or slowed down) while maintaining the pitch.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%"><br></span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">Please feel
free to contact me (<a href="mailto:harveyd@sou.edu" target="_blank">harveyd@sou.edu</a>) if
you have questions or comments. Our goal is for this software to be a useful
tool in the effort to revitalize indigenous languages.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%"><br></span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">Thanks for
listening, dan</span></font></p><span><font color="#888888"><font>
</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Dan Harvey<div>Professor of Computer Science</div><div>Southern Oregon University</div><div><a href="mailto:harveyd@sou.edu" target="_blank">harveyd@sou.edu</a></div>
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