Listen and Spell
| Version | 2 |
|---|---|
| Works with | Sugar: 0.82 – 0.88 |
| Updated | November 21, 2009 |
| Developers | Manusheel, Chirag, Assim |
| Homepage | http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/listen-spell.html |
| Rating | Rated 3 out of 5 stars 2 reviews |
| Downloads | 17,959 |
More about this activity
Listen and Spell is aimed towards helping children to learn and revise word spellings, vocabulary and pronunciation, and give them feedback on the development of their learning skills, overtime using fun and engaging methodologies. The activity can also be used as an educators' tool to conduct activities like spelling bee in the classroom.
Features -
1. Extensive database of words, their usage and definitions categorized according to their difficulty levels.
2. Framework to provide feedback on user's skill-set to spell words correctly.
3. An educator’s tool to organize activities like spelling bee in the classroom.
4.User Friendly-
a. Hint - The "Hint" feature includes word meanings, parts of speech, sample usage etc. provided to the user, whenever he/she is unable to spell the word correctly, and is looking for hints.
b.Voice configuration: Feature to edit volume, pitch, rate and language of the words.
Team
Senior Developer - Chirag Jain
Chirag works as Software Engineer, Products and Services, at Software for Education, Entertainment and Training Activities (http://seeta.in).
Development Trainer - Assim Deodia
Assim works as Technology Officer at Software for Education, Entertainment and Training Activities.
Project Manager - Manusheel Gupta
Manusheel Gupta is the founder Chairman and CEO of Software for Education, Entertainment and Training Activities.
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Support
Support for this activity is provided by the developer at http://testtrack.seeta.in or by sending an e-mail to support at seeta dot in
Developer Comments
Beta release - October 10, 2009
Reviews
The concept is good and can be very useful for children. Good work by team.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars by Diya Sharma on November 16, 2009
The concept of Listen of Spell is wonderful - reminding me of the "Speak 'n Spell" of the 70's or 80's. However, the speech synthesizer is very difficult to understand even after adjusting the configuration. The program also marks answers spelled correctly wrong if capital letters are used - even in an appropriate manner. For example, I was asked to spell "Edison". I could not understand the word, so I hit the "Speak Again" button, but still could not make out the word. Then, I used the "Get Definition" button. I found out that I was supposed to be identifying a "United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope. (1847 - 1931). Ignoring the fact that this is not a typical spelling word, and that practicing words with strong word family patterns or derivations would be much more beneficial than learning to spell someone's name, I typed in "Edison", capitalizing the first letter because the answer was a proper name. The program responded with "incorrect - you spelled E-d-i-s-o-n. the correct spelling is e-d-i-s-o-n. (although the program just said "e" both times and did not differentiate between capital and lowercase. Overall, the program is more frustrating than helpful with a voice synthesizer you don't understand, a word bank that doesn't really focus on high frequency words, word patterns, or derivations, and a feedback mechanism that gives poor feedback.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars by Kellie Doty on November 12, 2009
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Release Notes
1. First phase of revision of the database;
2. Spellings non case-sensitive.
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