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From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Teaching with the Amiga
Message-ID: <26661@aero.ARPA>
Date: 8 Mar 88 21:17:58 GMT
References: <3817@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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In article <3817@umix.cc.umich.edu> Marcus_Siskin@um.cc.umich.edu writes:
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>In a related topic, I am looking for a routine I can call from a Basic
>program to play sampled sounds.  This will be part of a demo program I am
>writing to show what the amiga can do in foreign language teaching.
>If you know of a program or routine out there please let me know.
>Thanks in advance!
>         Marcus_Siskin
>         Language Lab at Univ. of Michigan.

You may be interested in an approach I have taken to foreign language 
for my own vacation travel use. 

I have used the Director to set up a .film which does the following while
I am working with my A1000 writing letters, painting pictures or trying
to write C programs etc. 

The .film pauses for 1 to 3 minutes. Then it calls the say command
to say a random selection of phrases. For example: 
"Richard Richard pay atttention. Say How are you in Chinese."
It pauses for a few seconds, then says "Nee how"  I have played around
with the spelling to make the sounds as best as I can interpret them
from a travel guide. I have also written a short C command that calls
the narrator directly without going through the translator. This allows
me better control over the sound of the speaking. However it takes more
effort to write the Phonemes for this. This is helpful to me as a traveler.

Good luck with your efforts to use an Amiga for language instruction.

Richard Foy