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- Ralf Suckow e-mail: suckow@contrib.de
- Ludwig-Renn-Strasse 62 fax: +4930 9321901
- 12687 Berlin
- Germany
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- Ortografie 1.0
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- 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.
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- Ralf Suckow
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- Ortografie is a spelling trainer.
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- To work successfully with this program, YOU NEED SOUND OUTPUT
- (speakers) AND SOUND INPUT (a microphone) on your computer.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Please let me know in case you got Ortografie to work on Intel.
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- melonSoft Ralf Suckow Berlin is the maker of MusicBuilder,
- a high quality music creation application for NEXTSTEP.
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