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Contact Ralf Suckow e-mail: suckow@contrib.de Ludwig-Renn-Strasse 62 fax: +4930 9321901 12687 Berlin Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ortografie 1.0 Initially I wrote this program two years ago for my own children to practise german orthography. Then some people on the net asked for it. I translated it into english, fixed some bugs, wrote help texts, and compiled it quadruple-fat. So here it is. Have fun with it. And please let me know what you think about this program and if it is useful for you. Ralf Suckow -------------- D E S C R I P T I O N --------------------------------- Ortografie is a spelling trainer. To work successfully with this program, YOU NEED SOUND OUTPUT (speakers) AND SOUND INPUT (a microphone) on your computer. After starting the program, you can enter spoken words and a written equivalent for each of them. The words may be in the same language or in different. For example, you can speak an englich word and enter it's german spelling. Then, the computer tests you. The words are spoken by the computer, you type their right spelling. At least, you try. Also, the computer remembers what words you know and in wich words you are doing errors. Well-known words are tested less frequently. Ortografie is free software (about warranty etc. see the Help menu in the application). Source code is provided too. You can also change the audio comments of the program if you have a microphone - open the files in the .lproj directories in the app wrapper and record what you want. I find my own speaking very silly, for example. Ortografie comes in two languages, english and german. The program is compiled for all architectures but tested only under NEXTSTEP 3.3 on NeXT Hardware. I tested the program on Intel as well, but didn't have much luck with the Sound I/O (the Sound object resp. the driver). In my PC there is only a terrible SoundBlaster 8 compatible card, and all available drivers don't work well with it. Maybe it's not a driver problem? It seems as if the Sound object doesn't send the didRecord: message after the second recording. I tested Sound.app (from /NextDeveloper/Demos) as well and it also doesn't work. If you get Sound.app to work, Ortografie should work too. Please let me know in case you got Ortografie to work on Intel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- melonSoft Ralf Suckow Berlin is the maker of MusicBuilder, a high quality music creation application for NEXTSTEP.
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