Language revitalization project

[Mark Oppenneer]

Hi Dan,

I have shared your release announcement on the Ethnos Project blog (
http://www.ethnosproject.org). Please let me know if you'd like to
add/change anything. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Cheers,
Mark



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Mark D. Oppenneer
Ethnos Project
  <http://www.ethnosproject.org/>


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dan Harvey <harveyd at sou.edu> wrote:

> 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 http://cs.sou.edu/~harveyd/acorns
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Please feel free to contact me (harveyd at sou.edu) if you have questions or
> comments. Our goal is for this software to be a useful tool in the effort
> to revitalize indigenous languages.
>
>
> Thanks for listening, dan
>
>
> --
> Dr. Dan Harvey
> Professor of Computer Science
> Southern Oregon University
> harveyd at sou.edu
>
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