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Protected: Example 2 of Speech recognition dictation exercise in Spanish on Windows 7
2014/09/07
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Categories: e-languages, Spanish, Speaking, workshops
7, dictation, ms-windows, speech-recognition
How to change the display language and speech recognition language on Windows 8 computers
2014/09/07
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- I seem to be getting a lot of hits on this post for Windows 7 where the globalized language features are still limited to Enterprise and Ultimate SKU (and especially not available in Home and Home basic which most language learning users will work with).
- Windows 8 to the rescue, as per Steven Sinofsky’s blog post:
- Or if you need a visual step-by-step, here is me adding German to English on Windows 8.1 Professional:
Just 1 easy option now is they input language: 
Categories: e-languages, os
8.1, display-language, foreign-language-character-input, ms-windows, speech-recognition
How to add control of student sound/recording volume, sidetone, restart, and more to a Sanako Study 1200 environment, using the Launch Program feature and AutoIt
2014/08/22
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- UPDATE: A Windows7 (and Vista) version – which also uses a simplified deployment mechanism – is in the works, check back for a new post here.
- In refining our Sanako classroom setup, we improved the control, that the Sanako Study 1200 affords the teacher over the student clients in the computerized classroom,
- by extending the built-in Launch Program feature
- with custom-made executables (realized in AutoIt V3) that can control the volume (here on Windows XP SP3).
- This it how it works: Launch any of the programs (what each does is in its name) to any individual/group of students or the entire class in order to do any of these things on the student computers that the Sanako out of the box does not allow you to control, and that I often wish I could do when teaching language classes in a Sanako (or other computerized classroom management system) environment, like
- controlling the volume of what the students
- hears
- records
- turning the student sidetone (= echoing back the student microphone into the student headset) on and off
- starting/pausing Windows Media Player
- launching/closing quiz files in MS-Word
- restarting an entire (misbehaving) student applications
- controlling the volume of what the students
- Here is what we have:
- Here is how using what we have looks like:
- You can now request the download of these language lab enhancing programs, including source code, here.
How to add US International keyboard layout in Windows 8
2014/08/22
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How things have changed in Windows 8:
![image_thumb[5]](https://thomasplagwitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/image_thumb5.png "image_thumb[5]")
![image_thumb[6]](https://thomasplagwitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/image_thumb6.png "image_thumb[6]")
However, if you remember Windows 3.1, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Categories: e-languages, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Writing
foreign-language-character-input, ms-windows, us-international
Bad audio quality in Moodle Kaltura recordings on iMacs under ambient sound conditions. A running log (closed)
2014/08/22
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- Symptom: See title.
- Cause: While speakers of the 3.5 mm headset take over from the iMac speakers, when plugged in, the 3.5 mm headset micro does not disable the webcam micro. The webcam micro remains the recording source for Moodle Kaltura (mac os x.6, safari 6, flash 10).
- Possible solutions:
1st choice: is there a way for the admin to override this permanently?2nd choice: is there a way for the end user to override this on a case-by-case basis?- "The Califone 3066AV is compatible with both Windows and Mac audio outputs (but is not compatible with iMacs)." ("The Wow starts now!").. Do we have to tie up our boom and lavalier microphones for this?
- Try the flash settings by right clicking in the video window, selecting the microphone icon, then choosing the external (= non-webcam) microphone for input.
- Fail. The real culprit is the iMacs line-in audio-in for which you need a preamp to get it to work with analog microphones. Preamps seem to start at $40, but for that I can get a PC webcam (Microphone included).
Protected: LRC à la carte II: Choose from our start-of-term class inductions
2014/07/15
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