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Re: [lojban] Re: smart.fm
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 08:37:12AM -0700, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> > <[1]rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> > Why not get all the words up there even if you don't have audio for
> > them? �Can't you attach audio later? �That way people who don't need
> > pronounciation help can just use them. �I don't think that having
> > sound for every single gismu is really all that helpful, anyways;
> > having sound for sentences is something else entirely, of course.
>
> Honestly, the only reason for having the audio first is
> because, at this point, Smart.fm is really flawed insofar as
> editing existing items is concerned. To attach audio to an item
> when creating the item is virtually painless and takes
> basically the amount of time required to find the file on your
> computer, whereas to attach audio to an already created file
> takes as much as 4 times that amount. In addition, if the
> person attaching the audio is not the person that created the
> entry, Smart.fm duplicates the item and attaches the audio to
> the duplicate, which causes myriad other problems.
>
> Granted, the audio doesn't matter for people that already know the correct
> way to pronounce lojban. I suppose it's not absolutely neccessary to have
> it. There is a problem in not attaching�audio, however, that being that
> without it, Smart.fm will still play audio for the entries, in the form of
> a computer-generated female voice that attampts to pronounce them
> according to English rules.
Oof. Are you sure this is the right place for Lojban learning?
There are a bunch of spaced-repitition flashcard sites out there;
why this one?
Not being hostile, genuinely asking.
-Robin
--
They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/