KDEEdu/Artikulate/Todo

Release 0.2

Blockers

• broken Trainer mode: for now replace it with information that no Trainer mode is included

Release Goals

• provide-GHNS-interface
• provide training interface
• on demand parsing of courses
• provide at least one language course
• provide QtGStreamer backend

Release 0.4

Release Goals

• revisit interaction design
  • training interactions
  • overview screen (previously called start/home screen)
• use learner profiles
  • profile based "last learned language"
  • save statistics
• switch to QtGStreamer as main recording backend
  • optionally already allow sound recording with Simon
• provide at least two language courses
• complete user documentation
• use 5-boxes learning approach
• system wide course installation (aka class mode)
• testing color schemes
• port to kqmlgraphplugin
• minor UI todos
  • training page
    • add scrollbars for long texts (not fitting into bubble)
    • use font settings from configuration dialog
    • use background for progress bar phrase information
  • overview page
    • give info if no course/units are available in language

Minor Goals (candidates for later)

• port XML parsing to Xmlstream

Later

• soundwave diagrams / visual comparison
• kvtml file export

Release Steps

1. write release notes
2. create tarballs and upload them
3. notify sysadmins
4. add links to community wiki page
5. write notification mail

Documentation

Proposal for Contributor Documentation

1. STARTING WITH ARTIKULATE

• 1.1. General Intro: describing what a contributor can do...
• 1.2. Downloading the source files.
• 1.3. Compiling and installing Artikulate.
• 1.4. Getting data files (artikulate-data repository).

2. EDITING COURSE SKELETONS

• 2.1. Adding new course skeletons to Artikulate.
• 2.2. Adding units to a course skeleton.
• 2.3 . Adding phrases to units.

3. EDITING LANGUAGE COURSES

• 3.1. Creating a new language course from a course skeleton.
• 3.2. Translating phrases to a language.
• 3.3. Adding recordings for phrases.
• 3.4. Tagging phonemes for phrases.
• 3.5. Adding new languages to Artikulate/ Creating new phonology.

Proposal for User Documentation

1. INTRODUCTION

• 1.1. What is Artikulate.
• 1.2. How Artikulate aims to help the user.

2. BEGINNING WITH ARTIKULATE

• 2.1. Choosing a Language.
• 2.2. Choosing a Course.
• 2.3. Choosing a training unit.

3. SCENARIO TRAINING UNITS

• 3.1. What is a Scenario Training Unit.
• 3.2. Contents of a Scenario Unit.
• 3.3. What it aims at.

4. PHONEME TRAINING UNITS

• 4.1. What is Phoneme Training Units.
• 4.2. What it aims at.

5. PROCEEDING WITH THE TRAINING

• 5.1. Playing the recording provided.
• 5.2. Recording one's own voice.
• 5.3. Evaluating oneself for every phrase.
• 5.4. Cumulative Evaluation.

Coding

General User Interface

Course Editor

• broken layout for phrases with several text lines
• when scrolled down, cannot open phrase for edit
• enable the user to add new course skeletons

Trainer

• create concept for trainer UI (when training a unit)
• missing scrollbars for language list
• missing scrollbars for course list
• missing scrollbars for unit list

Core

• set input volume (change at config dialog has no effect currently)