Re: gperiodic

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

<snip>
> 
> Another thing occurred to me.  Camilla raised a valid point about
> accents and dialects.  If we try to provide audio files for all
> languages and accents, the program will become gigantic and unwieldy. 
> How about providing an easy-to-use interface for the instructor using
> the program to record those audio files him or herself?  That would keep
> the download small and allow the audio to be immediately localized for
> the particular environment.  It could be considered just part of the
> initial setup.
> 
> If the interface is made general enough it might be useful in a wide
> variety of educational software.
> 

my idea was to break the language/pronounciations out into seporate pakcages,
and allow the user/installer to only download the particular portions
they were interested in.  If space is really an issue, we could use the
mp3 format (average 10 to 1 compression), or real audio format, and invoke
an external player to output the sound.  That would keep the size down as
a whole, and allow users to select only the portions they wanted/needed.

???

k

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