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
• review basic course skeleton phrases

Release 0.3

Release Goals

• port sound recording to Simon
• port XML parsing to Xmlstream
• provide at least two language courses
• complete user documentation

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)