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How to get started with the new text-to-speech support in Sanako 7

2014/01/31 plagwitz Leave a comment

With the new text-to-speech feature, students can generate their own pronunciation help:
Using the button:Advanced settings, you can even
1. vary the speed of,
2. insert bookmarks to use with Sanako player
3. or insert thinking pauses for the learner into the audio – excellent ideas, I find !
Unfortunately, the LRC currently has voices only for English and Mandarin. Extra voices cost extra .
Then there is Google translate text-to-speech, but that cannot be saved to file.

Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, English, Listening, Mandarin, Speaking Tags: differentiated-instruction, sanako-study-1200, student.exe, text-to-speech, timestretching

Can we get rid of Windows Media Player first run experience?

2013/11/05 plagwitz Leave a comment

It costs a lot of time in a language lab where computers are frozen (user cannot change settings between sessions – unless this is a roaming user setting on the server which it does not appear to be) and audio files are frequently played for which Windows Media Player has is set to be the default player to go through this set of dialogues whenever trying to listen to a file. We had this bypassed in Windows XP/Symantec Ghost.
Even better, make the Sanako Recorder the default player for audio files in the language lab. The Sanako student settings I recommend here are meant for the teacher office computers where we do not have to control and try and optimize the experience as tightly as in a face-to-face class teaching lab and therefore can tread lightly during install of the Sanako. In the Student Recorder Settings, "associate media files" option should be checked.

Categories: digital-audio-lab, e-languages Tags: audio, image2013, sanako-study-1200, student.exe

New problem in Sanako Study 1200 version 7 with 2 student recorder exe’s running simultaneously on client, under different user accounts?

2013/09/25 plagwitz Leave a comment

UPDATE: Also an issue in the spring term on the teacher computer..
UPDATE: still an issue in the spring term.
This cannot be good (brought this student down).
How is this possible?
1. Presumably the student logged out an admin during a Sanako activity (we frequently have to place late-coming students sit and use an administrator computer, but they do not always get at term start that they are not supposed to log the admin out and in)
2. So this seems another (special) case of the recently observed student managing to exit the Sanako during an activity (helper.exe was running alright).

Categories: digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: image2013, sanako-study-1200, student.exe, version-7

Protected: Sanako “Student audio is not available”…

2013/08/26 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: digital-audio-lab, Glitches&Errors, Presenter-Computer, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, Student-Computers Tags: image2013, sanako-study-1200, student.exe

Sanako recording during pairing won’t work

2013/08/26 plagwitz Leave a comment

Now: Records one party only – bad if you have to find this out only after an exam… You can see this in the graph here – low audio is partner speaking, and not audible: and hear it yourself on campus here: "S:\coas\lcs\lrc\sanako\student\8-7-2013_2-35-18_PM ELTI level 2 final pair\Group A5 (falothma, maldubai)_sent.MP3"
Then (example of how it is supposed to sound): "S:\COAS\LCS\LRC\sanako\student\2013-02-27 14_13-pair-no-names\Group B4 (LXCOED434-PC36, LXCOED434-PC17)_sent.MP3":
workaround: Instead of being able to default to mp3 format, as we used to, the teacher now has to save the audio of pairing activites in a Sanako proprietary format (MIFF) and, including the students, play it back with the Sanako prpoprietary player. If the teacher does not remember to change the format from the default MP3 to MIFF for pairing exercise recordings, the teacher (and students) will lose the assessment materials of half the class (and likely not find this out until when the files get opened for grading).

Categories: digital-audio-lab, Glitches&Errors, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, Student-Computers Tags: image2013, oral-exams, pairing, sanako-study-1200, student.exe

Request to download the Sanako Study 1200 Recorder Installer source

2013/06/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

(Please be advised that there is no compiled code download for this software program since any implementation is institution-specific. The source code (written in AutoIT) download is for demonstration purposes only and not ready to run without you making the necessary adaptations to your environment).

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Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, digital-audio-lab, e-infrastructure, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-it-managing, service-is-programming, sourcecode Tags: autoit, sanako-study-1200, sanakorecorderinstall.exe, student.exe, trpQuiz

How to get access to the LRC Sanako (teacher materials, student recordings) from your office or home PC

2013/05/15 plagwitz 1 comment

Run the Sanako Installer (first meant for faculty offices only, but now faculty also want to have access from home, so I added that functionality).
On your office and or home PC, you get a folder “SANAKO” on your desktop. This folder will contain all you need to access student assessments from past classes or upload learning materials for future classes:
1. In the office: : It is sufficient to click the additional “UNCC…” links at the bottom of the list .
2. At home:
  1. Click “1st connect…” and log into the campus.
  2. Click “How teachers find…”, log in with the blog password, open the PDF, click the links in the PDF to the Sanako off-campus folders, log in again with the network credentials as shown in the PDF (sigh…).
  3. EXAMPLE: Here you can see on a faculty home PC:
    1. the sanako recorder and campus connector:
    2. the SANAKO desktop folder shortcuts:
      1. You get the Word templates only if you can use them (have WORD installed – remember you can install MS-Office with your free faculty license from here).
      2. (No, you won’t get the “UNCC…”shortcuts at home, we simplified since.)
  4. Both office and home:
    1. Drag any audio files into the Sanako study recorder window (further reading on why the Sanako study recorder is useful for teachers).
    2. Need to record? configure your microphone in Sanako study recorder, menu Tools.