[bookport] MP3s for learning foreign languages

  • From: Peter Rand <peter.rand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:16:25 +0200

Thanks Rob,

That sounds very promising.

Peter

ROB MEREDITH wrote:

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>Book Port uses phrase detection, so it should be great for what you want =
>to do, assuming that it finds phrases where they actually are. Hitting a =
>key moves to the previous phrase; another key moves to the next phrase.
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>Rob Meredith
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>Larry,
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>I have some teach-yourself foreign language lessons in MP3 format. The=20
>user is supposed to listen to the spoken text, and then to repeat it=20
>frequently. That means one constantly has to rewind a few seconds worth=20
>of material in order to listen to a phrase again.
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>How suitable is the Book Port for this kind of task - listening to=20
>spoken text in MP3 format and skipping back and forth within the MP3=20
>file in order to review difficult phrases? I guess what I am asking is=20
>whether Book Port has anything anything akin to a fast forward/reverse=20
>function with regard to MP3's.
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>Peter
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