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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: SirClickAlot on Fri, 26 November 2010, 07:28:36

Title: The Alphabet Board
Post by: SirClickAlot on Fri, 26 November 2010, 07:28:36

Just experimenting with this : here  (http://www.mrinterface.com/keyboardsims/alphabetboard/index.html)

You need flash to hear anything...

I was wondering if this kind of feedback brings greater accuracy to beginning touch typists. You would not only get feedback from your fingers via the keyboard and visually from the screen but also from your ears. One could actually make it so the sounds are output from the keyboard itself.
EDIT : I used short phonetics for all 26 characters. My 6 year old son likes to type on it now... :-)

What could also be nice is to have a word recognizer which utters the words when typed, that way you would 'hear' you misspelled or mistyped something.

Regards.

Title: The Alphabet Board
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 26 November 2010, 12:30:14

I bet you could do that by typing it into Microsoft Sam pretty easily.

Title: The Alphabet Board
Post by: SirClickAlot on Fri, 26 November 2010, 13:26:58

Quote from: microsoft windows;252563

I bet you could do that by typing it into Microsoft Sam pretty easily.

Well, it needs to work as a sort of overlay. Whatever program I use, everything I type gets pronounced after the space is pressed.

Regards.

Title: The Alphabet Board
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 26 November 2010, 14:47:03

Doesn't Microsoft Narrator do that?

Title: The Alphabet Board
Post by: SirClickAlot on Fri, 26 November 2010, 15:10:30

Quote from: microsoft windows;252627

Doesn't Microsoft Narrator do that?

Yes, something similar.

What I'd like to use is a cross platform open source variant... :-)

Regards.