Kid Talk aims to enhance kids’ speech abilities, its idea is simply to enable parents to build their kid’s dictionary which matches a vocabulary to a photo or a video as wanted, so whenever the kid says that vocabulary the matched photo is displayed or the matched video runs.
How To Use:
Here is a quick illustration video on how to use Kid Talk:
It is quite easy to use Kid Talk as it is simple and almost self-described, and it is quite important to note that the embedded speech recognizer follows the device language, so if for instance the device language is German the speech recognizer will only recognize German word unless you go to the Settings screen and force the recognizer only to recognize English.
First of all when you open Kid Talk for the first time you may want to build your kid’s dictionary or to browse the built-in dictionary by clicking on “MANAGE THE DICTIONARY” button on the main screen which takes you to the management screen:
- The management screen enables you to map a vocabulary to a photo/video.
- The management screen enables you to browse and/or remove previously mapped vocabularies.
- The management screen enables you to browse the built-in vocabularies and their mappings.
- To map a vocabulary to a photo or a video, click and hold on the mic symbol until it turns into green, then say a word, the recognizer might recognize several words so it will show suggestions starting by the best match, select the intended vocabulary and click on “Map The Selection“, the Gallery will get opened, select a photo/video and the selected vocabulary will get matched to the selected photo/video.
- To browse the already mapped vocabularies navigate to “Remove Vocabularies” screen, this screen allows to remove the vocabularies as well.
- Kid Talk includes a small built-in English vocal dictionary of 20 words mapped to illustration images, these vocabularies are selected based on studies on the first baby`s English words like the study “Baby`s First 10 Words” of American Psychological Association in 2008 by T. Tardif, P. Fletcher, W. Liang, Z. Zhang, N. Kaciroti and V. A. Marchman. However; you may override them simply by mapping other photos or videos.
