Comments on: Phonemic Text – Audio http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-audio/ This website explores the use of javaScript to add interactivity to language learning materials. The main advantage of javascript is that it can be used to add a lot of interactivity yet web pages are still relatively small and fast to load. In addition no plug-ins need to be downloaded and installed. Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Morrissey http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Michael Morrissey Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:42:06 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=9#comment-19 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Good stuff, Pete, though I had trouble with the first word. Contrastive pairs might be better, or phrases and sentences, since words in isolation are hard to distinguish. Have you tried using WMA files? They produce the same quality as mp3 and take only about half the space. Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Good stuff, Pete, though I had trouble with the first word. Contrastive pairs might be better, or phrases and sentences, since words in isolation are hard to distinguish.

Have you tried using WMA files? They produce the same quality as mp3 and take only about half the space.

]]> By: Tony Duffy http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Tony Duffy Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:07:28 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=9#comment-18 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) I couldn't hear the first word clearly enough to transcribe it - consonant sounds in particular were sometimes rather vague. But it's a nice activity! Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)

I couldn’t hear the first word clearly enough to transcribe it – consonant sounds in particular were sometimes rather vague. But it’s a nice activity!

]]> By: Bev Derewianka http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Bev Derewianka Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:52:12 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=9#comment-17 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1 Lovely resource - looking forward to playing with it. But I can't hear anything. I've pressed the 'play' arrow at the top, but nothing so far. Any suggestions? Bev Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1

Lovely resource – looking forward to playing with it. But I can’t hear anything. I’ve pressed the ‘play’ arrow at the top, but nothing so far. Any suggestions?

Bev

]]> By: jean-claude breton http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-16 jean-claude breton Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:38:21 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=9#comment-16 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) No, I'm using IE 5.0 & 98SE. Quite a few symbols are displayed as squares. Why not give longer words, or even short sentences? (maybe I haven't done enough of the exercise?) But I like it. A good way to get familiar with those symbols. jc Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

No, I’m using IE 5.0 & 98SE.

Quite a few symbols are displayed as squares.
Why not give longer words, or even short sentences? (maybe I haven’t done enough of the exercise?)

But I like it. A good way to get familiar with those symbols.

jc

]]> By: Pete http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/2004/03/09/phonemic-text-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Pete Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:08:12 +0000 http://mackichan.e-lang.co.uk/?p=9#comment-15 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 This is a test to make sure all the links are working OK. Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This is a test to make sure all the links are working OK.

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