Comp 190 Project Status Report

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Comp 190 Project Status Report

• Jeremy Parker and Tony Penta

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Our Project

• Create a typing tutor
• Make it accessible to users who are sighted or
  blind

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Acessibility

• Text-to-speech
• Stereo audio
• Visual component
• Interesting games

Common Features
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What has been done?

• LINK talking keyboard
• http//www.assistivetech.com/p-link.htm
• 1,395
• Standard typing tutors
• Many versions
• Range from free to 50
• Braille key stickers
• Not practical

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Talking Typing Tutors

• http//www.enablelink.com/PCTalking20Typing.htm
• 90 for one-year personal license
• Only works with Windows
• http//www.talktypetutor.com/
• 190 90/year after that
• Only works with Windows
• http//www.braillebookstore.com/talking-typing-tea
  cher.htm
• 104
• Only works with Windows

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A Better Way of Thinking

• Jeremy and Tonys Talking Typing Tutor
• Free!
• Cross-platform!

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We talk a big game, but how will we ever be able
to back it up?

• Our investigation
• Java Speech API and FreeTTS
• Java Sound
• Java applets

• Doctors say Too much Java will give you a
  heart attack!

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The Answer

• Macromedia Director
• Web-deliverable
• Cross-platform
• Support for text-to-speech engines
• Easier audio and video

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Divisions of the Project

• Introduction/general tutorial
• Introduce the QWERTY system
• Teach home keys, where to go from there
• Games
• Common to most others
• Similar themes