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How to batch watermark your images for free with Irfanview
– just to be a bit more concise than this useful, but long post on yet another great feature of this free program (shout-out to Kai). Not shown here: after making your settings here, click button “Start batch”.
Sanako Study 1200 V6.1 implements text-to-speech with language learner features
- Sanako continues its foray into learning materials – this time semi-automated (makes sense to me: what can be automated, will be automated) and into text-to-speech automation (makes sense to me: one of the more robust (since simpler) applications of AI to NLP) for pronunciation help (also makes sense to me: can help my language learners fight their fear of losing face).
- Text-to-speech looks like a great addition in Sanako Study 1200 V.61 for the language learner:
- especially since it
- includes play speed options
- allows for download of speech rendition for review
- can blend with a human expert in the face-to-face classroom
- while saving human experts time to record audio learning materials.
- Caveats:
- Would like to know more about IVONA voices.
- Pricing? Available Languages?
- especially since it
- We are still on Sanako 5.2, but will be losing our Deskbot text-to-speech wizard with XP soon – so coincidentally I have just been wondering whether we will be able to hack together a text-to-speech on Windows 7, maybe using Google translate voices, but without the Google translate features that are commonly abused by language learners? Update: Look here for automating Google translate text-to-speech.
How to record your voice with Vocaroo.com
- Click the red record button:
- IMPORTANT: You have to allow the web app access to your microphone (you would not want webpages be able to record you without having been asked for permission, would you?):
- And/or Click “allow” on this screen:
- Speak, when done, click the square stop button:
- Click the triangle to listen to your recording (if you do not see the triangle, but a warning at the bottom, have you clicked “allow ” in step 3 above? If you are not sure, press “F5” now to refresh the page, that will bring up the dialogue again for you press “allow ”):
- Listen:
- “Save”.
Protected: How you can speed up log-in on the LRC teacher computer at the beginning of your class
The process normally between ccrss.exe and explorer.exe prevents shutdown…
… and log-off on the teacher station. not always, but often?
Why is Mac OS X forcing power cycle?
Why do some room calendars refuse to synch in Outlook?
- Problem: I recently had to recreate ("Add calendar"/ "From address book") my calendar tree (groups) in Outlook 2010, and now I notice that
- some (especially all tutor "Room" calendars) steadfastly remain blank (e.g. LRCTutor07),
- while other room calendars do not (e.g. LRCRoomCOED433b).
- The offending calendars can be loaded from internet (being published – with limited details, so that is not a real workaround): e.g. “ITL up t to 2201”.
- In the Properties/ Permissions, I can see that for some calendars that synch, I am not listed as Editor (presumably being more than that? Owner?) – but not all calendars that synch (e.g. LRCRoomCOED433b) have this as a requirement.
- Is there maybe a limit of how many calendars can be loaded in Outlook at any given time?
- Impersonating the calendar and sharing it with myself does not help either:
- In the settings below (albeit a year old), I cannot see a substantial difference either:
type
room
Room
shortname/type
LRCRoomCOED433a
LRCTutor07
displayname
PSComputerName
rpitsexms1.its.uncc.edu
rpitsexms1.its.uncc.edu
RunspaceId
fc10f102-74a8-4edb-ace5-d13662b8da3e
fc10f102-74a8-4edb-ace5-d13662b8da3e
AutomateProcessing
AutoAccept
AutoUpdate
AllowConflicts
TRUE
TRUE
BookingWindowInDays
180
180
MaximumDurationInMinutes
1440
1440
AllowRecurringMeetings
TRUE
TRUE
EnforceSchedulingHorizon
TRUE
TRUE
ScheduleOnlyDuringWorkHours
FALSE
FALSE
ConflictPercentageAllowed
0
100
MaximumConflictInstances
0
9999
ForwardRequestsToDelegates
TRUE
TRUE
DeleteAttachments
TRUE
TRUE
DeleteComments
FALSE
FALSE
RemovePrivateProperty
TRUE
TRUE
DeleteSubject
FALSE
FALSE
AddOrganizerToSubject
TRUE
TRUE
DeleteNonCalendarItems
TRUE
TRUE
TentativePendingApproval
TRUE
TRUE
EnableResponseDetails
TRUE
TRUE
OrganizerInfo
TRUE
TRUE
ResourceDelegates
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
RequestOutOfPolicy
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
AllRequestOutOfPolicy
FALSE
FALSE
BookInPolicy
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
AllBookInPolicy
TRUE
FALSE
RequestInPolicy
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.MultiValuedProperty`1[Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADObjectId]
AllRequestInPolicy
FALSE
TRUE
AddAdditionalResponse
TRUE
TRUE
AdditionalResponse
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Faculty,staff&students in LCS/ELTI are the only users that can book this resource. If you do not qualify, please cancel your meeting request immediately and email instead LRChelp@uncc.edu with your request! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>LRC Staff (and possibly tutor-seeking students) in LCS are the only users that can book this resource. If you do not qualify, please cancel your meeting request immediately and email instead LRChelp@uncc.edu with your request! </FONT></DIV>
RemoveOldMeetingMessages
TRUE
FALSE
AddNewRequestsTentatively
TRUE
TRUE
ProcessExternalMeetingMessages
FALSE
FALSE
RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications
FALSE
FALSE
MailboxOwnerId
its.uncc.edu/unccharlotte/Generic Accounts/LRCRoomCOED433a
its.uncc.edu/unccharlotte/Generic Accounts/LRCTutor07
Identity
its.uncc.edu/unccharlotte/Generic Accounts/LRCRoomCOED433a
its.uncc.edu/unccharlotte/Generic Accounts/LRCTutor07
IsValid
TRUE
TRUE
Multilingual WordNet search interface
Covers a subset of the languages supported by the LRC. Based on Wordnet which is rather than a dictionary for human consumption, a machine-readable semantic network, but here is one of its machine-generated applications.
Questions? Read the About. Or just ask me a quick
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FAQs for LRC student staff or for students or for teachers. To search our FAQs, in the browser addressbar, add after "https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?tag=faqs+/" "+TAG1" (from tag cloud below) OR "https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/tag=faqs
&category_name=" "CAT1" (from category hierarchy below). OR search both categories and tags, and multiple TAGs/CATs (connect with "," for OR-search, with "+" for AND-search), like so: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?tag=TAG1+TAG2+...TAGn&category_name=CAT1
+CAT2+...CATn"
Other ways to find help
If you cannot find it here, look there: 5,500 Language-Learning Links and Programs for learning or teaching 150 languages
Shortcuts:Our Lists, Our Maps, LRC Staff Moodle Site,LRC Project Moodle Site, 49erexpress, UNCC Moodle, Student Recordings: s:claslcslrcsanakostudent
Learning usage samples: Sanako oral exam, Kaltura webcam presentation, Dictation with speech recognition, Sanako written exam, Chinese and Japanese interactive stroke-order practice
Test the Sanako Installer, Webbrowser Popup Konfigurator for XP, or Windows7, faster LRC TeacherPC Log-in Let MS facilitate diacritics writing by installing for you US-International keyboard layout
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