MoodleMootVirtualConference2011Talk

code [path=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110819/mmvc11/] img0.png My name is John Graves. I'm a P H D student in computer science at A U T University in Auckland, New Zealand.

img1.png Wiki-to-Speech is a technology for leveraging the computer's ability to talk. A Wiki-to-Speech presentation can be experienced interactively, on-demand, on the web or on mobile devices.

img2.png This presentation provides a quick overview of the context, technology and resources available for Wiki-to-Speech.

img3.png Wikipedia is a tremendous resource and an inspiration for the wiki-to-speech project.

img4.png Hundreds of millions of people are reading billions of pages every month.

img5.png The English language Wikipedia is huge. If printed, it would fill over fifteen hundred volumes.

img6.png Text-to-Speech, on the other hand, has acquired a bad reputation in mainstream computing.

img7.png People find the idea of talking computers threatening or annoying.

img8.png Despite these issues, use in assisted navigation has become popular. Smart mobile phones have the G P S tracking and text-to-speech capabilities to make this possible.

img9.png So think of Wiki-to-Speech as a guide to learning in the same way an electronic navigation system is a guide to driving. The goal is to provide just in time directions to get you where you want to go.

img10.png Computing and learning are going mobile at an astounding rate. Smart phones and tablets began out selling desktop and notebook computers in two thousand eleven.

img11.png Three hundred million smart phones were sold in two thousand ten.

img12.png Mobile internet access will surpass desktop internet access in just a few years.

img13.png The majority of internet users have been in the developing world since two thousand and eight. The developing world is shown by the green bars which are shown growing at thirty percent per year.

img14.png So just think about providing massive amounts of on-line learning to customers like this girl in Kenya.

img15.png Global, mobile, internet technology makes it possible for one teacher to record two thousand four hundred videos and share them with the world.

img16.png In this way, Salman Khan has delivered over seventy million lessons. This means each video has been watched roughly thirty thousand times on average.

img17.png Wiki-to-Speech offers technological advantages over YouTube videos in authoring, distribution and use by students, particularly for those students who speak languages different from the lesson author.

img18.png The first advantage is collaborative authoring.

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