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[eal-bilingual] multilingual software

David Robertson robertsonhome at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jan 26 06:57:03 GMT 2007

Article: [eal-bilingual] multilingual software

Bengali and Turkish please.
Christine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "trevor millum" <trevor at fernhse.demon.co.uk>
To: "For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic 
andlinguisticminorities" <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] multilingual software


>I wonder if anyone out there is interested in helping to develop some 
>multi-lingual software which we have been working on for the last year or 
>so?
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> I work (part-time) for a small family-run company called Resource 
> Education which makes educational software and we have (with the help of 
> one or two LAs and other local experts) created a way of incorporating a 
> range of languages into a number of our Primary programs.  So far we have 
> worked on Gujerati, Urdu, Punjabi and Polish (as well as Welsh, Spanish 
> and French) but we would like to branch out further as we have discovered 
> there is considerabe demand!
> The software feature we have created is called Talk-2-Talk and enables 
> recorded speech in a program to be spoken twice: once in one language, 
> then in another. (Can be used in single language mode as well, of course). 
> As far as I know, this hasn't been done elsewhere.
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> I'll keep this brief - but if anyone is interested in getting involved - 
> or just making suggestions, please email me  trevor at fernhse.demon.co.uk 
> We would obviously make sure that any help was properly recompensed.
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> Trevor Millum
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