User's Manual

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Dialogue

Start-up

To begin the Dialogue:

From the Film Set, click on the clapboard.

From any other screen, click on the Dialogue icon in the toolbar.

Note.

You can choose to familiarise yourself with:

- Chinese writing, by displaying both the Chinese characters and their transcription in Pinyin, or

- Japanese writing, by displaying both the Japanese characters and their transcription in Rômaji or Furigana.

You can, on the other hand, choose to learn in total immersion by displaying neither transcription. Click on the

Options icon, then on the tab Dialogue and Exercises, and choose your display settings in Transcription

display.

Dialogue: Explore - How it works

The Dialogue: Explore activity does not use speech recognition. TeLL me More

speaks to you; the sentence

which you hear is displayed at the top of the screen. Choose one of the responses shown by clicking on it. Your

response is highlighted in green. TeLL me More

may provide a response.

The explore mode allows you to discover the topic of the lesson and its associated vocabulary, and to immerse

yourself in the accent and intonations of the Chinese or the Japanese language. It also allows you to become

familiar with the dialogue activity.

Note.

To access Dialogue: Explore, click on the Audio, Video and Speech Recognition tab in Options and

deactivate Speech recognition.

Dialogue: Expression - How it works

Having listened carefully to the intonations particular to the Chinese or the Japanese language in Dialogue:

Explore, put them into practice by pronouncing the responses in the Dialogue: Expression activity. Follow the

instructions given by the speech recognition panel in the top right-hand corner of the screen:

Listen...

TeLL me More

speaks to you. The spoken text is displayed at the top of the screen.

Speak...

Three possible responses are displayed in the box below. Choose one of them and say it into the microphone.

The Speak... lamp flashes while the computer is recording your voice.

Wait...

TeLL me More

evaluates your response. If the computer understands you, your response is highlighted in

green. The dialogue will continue according to the response you chose. If TeLL me More

doesn't understand

your response, the Speak... lamp will flash again to prompt you to give your response again.

Should you speak too slowly, TeLL me More

will indicate this with a message in the speech recognition panel.

To listen to the sentence spoken by TeLL me More

again or to hear the pronunciation of a response, click on

the loudspeaker to the left of the sentence. The pronunciation of a word or sentence can also be accessed with the

right mouse button.