This blog post explores various Sound Match options in Textivate, each with a different focus and level of support.
In the example below, the prompt is French audio (TTS), and students have to match it with the English text.
To set this up:
Some activities to practise the French alphabet.
The activities use TTS to read out the French letters. Students simply have to click on the letter they hear.
Find out more about TTS in textivate
The Tile and Horizontal activities, Paragraph, 1in3, 1in4, 1in5, Million and Next word now have a new feature: TTS sections.
If you have enabled TTS for your resource, you should see TTS sections as one of the TTS options for these activities. If you select TTS sections, a "Speak" button appears with a dropdown box for each sentence in the text. (See above). Click "Speak" to hear the current section.
See the embedded Tile 3x4 activity below as an example:
You may or may not be aware that it IS possible to create Match resources on textivate matching images with text. This blog post tells you all about it.
Well, with text-to-speech, it's now possible to add a voice to those images too. Here's how:
Add text-to-speech to your Match activities to create audio-based spelling activities where the meaning is reinforced by displaying the L1 as a prompt.
To do this:
See the embedded example below:
We've now added text-to-speech (TTS) to the Space activity ("Separate the words").
If your resource has text-to-speech enabled, turn on TTS using the selector at the bottom of the screen, and click "speak" to speak the text one sentence at a time. Use the number selector to jump to a different part of the text. (After finishing speaking a sentence, the number selector jumps to the next sentence automatically, so you just need to keep clicking the "speak" button.)
Here's an embedded example for you:
