Learning 2 Talk Apps

The app listens to you saying common English words and helps bothyour pronunciation and vocabulary. Fully interactive, fun andsimple to use, Talking English is suitable for a child or adult whois starting to learning English.It is a great help to anyone wanting to improve theirpronunciation and vocabulary. Keep coming back to the app and watchyour scores (and pronunciation!) improve.The App is in a game like format. It shows you images and asksyou to say what you see. It will listen to the response and youwill be shown how accurate you are.Once installed, the app works fine without networkconnectivity.We're happy to work with organizations that would like the appcustomizedto suit their particular needs and requirements.Some of the standard changes we make are:- adding translations into new languages,- adding new word lists,- focusing on helping students get over some particularmispronunciations,- switching to new images,- providing teachers with notification of how students performed attasks set to them,- creating an automated English language oral test.To discuss further, please email us at: [email protected] did we write the app? Here's the long answer:One important part of learning a second language is learningcorrect pronunciation. This has been a challenge in traditionalclassroom based learning environments. Teachers have only a verylimited amount of time that they can spend with each studenthelping them with their pronunciation. When second languagelearners are encouraged to practice in pairs or in small groupsthey are often unaware of each other's mispronunciations and so arenot well placed to help one another.The problem with books is that they neither can listen nor givefeedback.One very expensive solution to this is to send children abroadfor schooling so that they can be immersed in the second language.Although this very often has the desired effect of helping thechild master the second language, it is too expensive to bepractical for the vast majority.A child who is not a native English speaker can indeed learnEnglish while watching a film. However when he speaks, if hismispronunciations are not corrected then his poor enunciationsbecome ingrained.One suggested solution to this is to have a powerful computer toanalyze the child’s speech and provide feedback. The problem ofgetting powerful computers with microphones into the hands ofchildren is being solved as more and more children acquiresmart-phones and tablet computers. From a hardware point of view,they generally are up to the task.Almost all young mammals play. It is instinctively fun but itserves a purpose. It is how they learn useful skills. If we want toengage children in a language learning exercise, then our approachmust be fun, the activity can be in the form of play. With this inmind, we have built the ‘Talking English’ app. It is in a gameformat and uses tailored speech recognition technology. Whenchildren play it, they learn English vocabulary and it helps theirpronunciation.

The app help you learn 500 English words, itaids both your pronunciation and vocabulary.The user speaks, the app will listen and give feedback.It is a great help to anyone wanting to improve theirpronunciation and vocabulary. Keep coming back to the app and watchyour scores (and pronunciation!) improve.The App is in a game like format. It shows you images and asksyou to say what you see. It will listen to the response and youwill be shown how accurate you are.Once installed, the app works fine without networkconnectivity.There are no ads in the app and there are no in-appproducts.The 5 USD fee is a one off payment for a permanent license.The privacy of the user is absolutely respected. When the user runsthe app, we collect no data on that user.We're happy to work with organizations that would like the appcustomizedto suit their particular needs and requirements.Some of the standard changes we make are:- adding translations into new languages,- adding new word lists,- focusing on helping students get over some particularmispronunciations,- switching to new images,- providing teachers with notification of how students performed attasks set to them,- creating an automated English language oral test.To discuss further, please email us at: [email protected] did we write the app? Here's the long answer:One important part of learning a second language is learningcorrect pronunciation. This has been a challenge in traditionalclassroom based learning environments. Teachers have only a verylimited amount of time that they can spend with each studenthelping them with their pronunciation. When second languagelearners are encouraged to practice in pairs or in small groupsthey are often unaware of each other's mispronunciations and so arenot well placed to help one another.The problem with books is that they neither can listen nor givefeedback.One very expensive solution to this is to send children abroadfor schooling so that they can be immersed in the second language.Although this very often has the desired effect of helping thechild master the second language, it is too expensive to bepractical for the vast majority.A child who is not a native English speaker can indeed learnEnglish while watching a film. However when he speaks, if hismispronunciations are not corrected then his poor enunciationsbecome ingrained.One suggested solution to this is to have a powerful computer toanalyze the child’s speech and provide feedback. The problem ofgetting powerful computers with microphones into the hands ofchildren is being solved as more and more children acquiresmart-phones and tablet computers. From a hardware point of view,they generally are up to the task.Almost all young mammals play. It is instinctively fun but itserves a purpose. It is how they learn useful skills. If we want toengage children in a language learning exercise, then our approachmust be fun, the activity can be in the form of play. With this inmind, we have built the ‘Talking English’ app. It is in a gameformat and uses tailored speech recognition technology. Whenchildren play it, they learn English vocabulary and it helps theirpronunciation.

The app will look for a solution to theCountDown Numbers Game.The app requests the user to enter a target number and six‘input numbers’. It will then try to achieve that target value bycombining the input numbers, using addition, subtraction,multiplication, division and brackets.The solution does not have to contain all the input numbers and itcan’t use any of the input numbers more than once. The inputnumbers don’t all have to be different.If an input is left blank, then it is assumed to be zero.Suppose we had a target of 241 and we have input numbers:{ 10, 5, 5, 2, 3, 6 }then we could find a solution:241 = ( 10 x 5 x 5 ) - (3 + 6)Note how both 5's are used, but the 2 is not used at all.The target and input numbers must be integers and at nointermediate point in the solution provided will there benon-integers. For example (5 / 2 ) x 6 would not be allowed, since(5 / 2) is not an integer.But ( 5 x 6 ) / 2 is allowed.This app was produced by Philip Kinlen.The app is non-commercial. It was developed for fun and isdistributed for free.If you'd like to see the source code, then please go to thefollowing URL in github:https://github.com/pkinlen/countdownnumbers