auditory
AudiFlash 1.0 Beta
AudiFlash is a free program for creating and using auditory flash cards. more>> AudiFlash is a free program for creating and using auditory flash cards. AudiFlash is ideal for practicing and preparing for oral exams and other tests. Audio flash cards provide several advantages over conventional quizzes and tests. Unlike multiple choice quizzes which give you the answers, auditory flash cards truly test your memory, as you arent presented with any options. Furthermore, creating and using audio flash cards is much faster than manually typing questions and answers!<<less
DAISY XML Translator M3 Beta
Easily Translate Open XML to DAISY XML Standards more>> Easily Translate Open XML to DAISY XML Standards
The DAISY XML Translator add-in for Microsoft Word will enable the translation of millions of Open XML documents into DAISY XML, the lingua franca of the globally-accepted Digital Access Information SYstem (DAISY) standard for digital talking books.
The DAISY Consortium was formed in 1996 to harness the rich capabilities opened up by the transition from analog to digital technology. And to ensure that "all published information is available to people with print disabilities at the same time and at no greater cost in accessible, feature-rich, navigable format.
DAISY-formatted files allow users to scroll through auditory content using simple keystrokes to hone in on specific sections, and configure its playback to skip over items like footnotes. DAISY material can be played on dedicated devices or, by installing special software, on PCs.
Main features:
- DAISY-formatted files allow users to scroll through auditory content using simple keystrokes to hone in on specific sections, and configure its playback to skip over items like footnotes.
- DAISY material can be played on dedicated devices or, by installing special software, on PCs.
- DAISY works by creating a digital audio file narrating the documents content that maps to a text file with the XML structure of the text marked up.
System requirements:
- Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, 2007 or XP
Universal Wisdom Meditational Audio 1.01
Meditate and get wisdom from various philosophers and spiritual leaders. more>>
Universal Wisdom Meditational Audio 1.01 provides you a convenient program which is able to combine wisdom from the worlds religions, spiritual disciplines philosophers and spiritual leaders into 2 unique presentations Om Namaha Shiva includes the narrated work of Lama Tubten Yeshe; Tibetan Monk, passages from the Upinshads, Ancient Hindu Sanskrit, the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Al Hallaj of Persia and the Bhagavad Gita The second composition Afterlife presents the mysteries of death, reincarnation and healing with verses from Rabindranath Tagore, Hinduism, Upinshads, Confuscius, ancient Jesuit texts, Plutarch and more Each composition is carefully mixed with meditational music, sacred chants and sounds of nature to provide you with an ethereal auditory experience.
Also included in this audio ebook are more meditational music samples, inspirational art gallery and online resources.
Enhancements:
- Unspecified updates
- Enhancements
- Bug fixes
AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite 3.3
Free web log analysis software. It quickly generates all traditional reports more>>
AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite is a software that allows you analyze logs and generate reports.
Reports generated by the AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite will help you to estimate the auditory of your site and increase website traffic. You will get all the necessary information about the visitors of you website. The information is structured and can be viewed in the browser.
Main features:
- More than 430 search engines.
- More than 120 catalogs.
- Unique reports for search engine optimization (SEO).
- Unique reports for web site promotion.
- Advance reports for search engines, search phrases, referring sites and referring URLs.
- Fake referrers filtration.
- Supports Apache Common, Apache Combined, and IIS log file formats.
- Automatic detection of standard log file formats.
- Customized setting for non-standard log file formats.
- Automatic adding of log files to a Log List.
- Supports command-line mode.
- Ability to read files from ZIP and GZip archives.
- Advance selection of filters.
- Sorting by any report column.
- Ability to change the design of reports.
- Ability to customize the volume of data entered in a report.
- Simultaneous analysis of a large number of log files. The log files can be in different formats and could come from different servers. This is very convenient for the analysis of the traffic to mirror and linked web sites.
- Full customization of reports. You can change the design of reports, customize the data being entered, and adjust the volume of the reports data.
System requirements:
- Intel or AMD processor (CPU);
- 64 MB RAM;
- 10 MB free hard disk drive space.
Reports generated by the AlterWind Log Analyzer Lite will help you to estimate the auditory of your site and increase website traffic. You will get all the necessary information about the visitors
License:Freeware
White Noise Sleep System 1.2.29
A completely customizable application that will play sound samples in a continuously loop more>> A completely customizable application that will play sound samples in a continuously loop
White noise is a type of noise that is produced by combining sounds of all different frequencies together. If you took all of the imaginable tones that a human can hear and combined them together, you would have white noise. Because white noise contains all frequencies, it is frequently used to mask other kinds of sounds because it effectively overloads or "numbs" our auditory systems.
The White Noise Sleep System was designed to be a completely customizable application that will play sound samples (mp3, wav, mid, avi, wma, ...) in a continuously loop, effectively masking unwanted noises and creating a sense of calm, making it easier to
Main features:
PLAY YOUR OWN SOUND SAMPLES, MUSIC, ...
- If you dont like the sound samples included with this application, you can use your own samples, play your favorite music or play another white noise samples bought / free downloaded (royalty free) from Internet.
SOUND CHANNELS
- You can play up to 5 sound samples simultaneously.
- For instance you can play "rain" and "fan" simultaneously to effectively mask unwanted noises.
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- You can schedule events to effectively mask unwanted noises, namely :
- You can setup a start time for every sound sample
- You can setupchange volume (sound player volume, computer master volume and computer wave volume) over time
- You can stop all playing samples
- You can close the application when you no longer needs it running
- You can shutdown you computer automatically when you no longer needs the application running
Add & Subtract Fractions 3.0
Build fraction problem solving skills for simple to complex problems. Includes exercises for building reducing and simplifying fraction skills. Multimedia program produces on-screen exercises and printed worksheets. more>>
Build fraction addition and subtraction skills for simple to complex problems. Also Includes exercises for building reducing and simplifying fraction skills. All problems are randomly generated on several levels of difficulty with no repeated problems. Problems are solved number-by-number as they would be solved using pencil and paper. Auditory and visual feedback is provided to promote successful problem completion. Various levels of assistance are provided. For example, the greatest common factor and the least common denominator can be revealed until the user is adept at finding the GCF and LCD. Step-by-step directions can also be provided until the user is adept at problem solving. Uses the Microsoft Agent Peedy, parrot character who provides verbal and visual feedback. Peedy helps make the learning of fractions easier and fun. This program also generates printed worksheets and tests with accompanying answer sheets.
System Requirements: 10 MB RAM, 10 MB HD Space
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Noisy Mouse 2.0
Noisy Mouse is a simple application that adds separate sounds to right, left, and middle mouse button actions more>>
It adds the three selections to the Windows Sounds properties, allowing you to use the native Control Panel applet to assign any of the three files included, or any .wav file your prefer.
Noisy Mouse optionally resides in your system tray to provide access to editing the sounds or terminating the program anytime you dont want to hear the sounds. If you enjoy having your computer narrate your mouse moves, this freeware program is for you.
An even more practical use would be to associate specific files with each click, so participants in learning sessions would be able to differentiate the left- and right-mouse clicks with auditory cues.
countDownTimer 1.0
A full screen, settable countdown timer with audio prompts more>> A full screen, settable countdown timer with audio prompts
The countDownTimer application was designed to be a simple standalone countdown timer that provides visual and auditory cues regarding the timers status.
Timers are often used in classrooms to limit activities, to aid students with transitioning from one activity to another, or for timing activities like cooking. Countdown was designed to work along with Launcher6, and responds to keyboard commands the same way as Launcher6 as noted below.
Like Launcher6 any changes to Countdowns setup are saved automatically in a text file called "countdown.tsu"in the same folder as the Countdown.exe file, and the setup is automatically loaded when Countdown is opened again.
Main features:
- Set Minutes: Choose from the drop down menu.
- Set Seconds: Choose from the drop down menu.
- Automatically Start Countdown: Start counting down upon opening.
- Audio Count Down the Last 10 Seconds: Auditory countdown of 10, 9 , 8...
- Announce Last 4 30 Second Intervals: Auditory cues for 2 minutes, 1 minute 30 seconds...
- Use Endpoint Audio Announcement: A sound or TTS message to play at timer end.
- Use Clipboard Text-to-Speech: Use a clipboard TTS agent to produce auditory cues instead of sound files.
- Exit When Timer Expires: Close Countdown at the end of timer.
- Locate end message sound file: Find the sound file you want for your end message.
- Enter text for final message: Enter your TTS end message as text.
- Load Text-to-Speech Program: Locate your TTS program if necessary.
- Start Countdown: Return to the Countdown screen and commence counting down.
System requirements:
- At least a 233Mhz CPU and 64Mb RAM, and may require Quicktime. If you want to use the text-to-speech (TTS) feature you will also need a clipboard text to speech utility and perhaps the Microsoft Agent technology installed.
SoundPackager 1.20
SoundPackager brings customization of your auditory experience to Windows! Users can now choose from sound packages to enhance their Windows desktop experience. Over 30 different system sounds are supported. more>>
SoundPackager makes customizing your sound experience in Windows easy!
Before SoundPackager, users would need to edit each system sound assignment individually using the default Windows dialog to select a sound for over thirty different events (such as startup, shutdown, close, minimize, errors, etc.) one-by-one. Not only was this time consuming, but in addition users were also forced to hunt down similar sounds to assign for each event.
With SoundPackager all of this becomes much easier. Sound packages come as a single file.
SoundPackager opens the files containing sounds that are tailored to a theme (such as football, space, etc.). So now, when you apply a theme, 30+ sound events for Windows are updated to your favorite theme automatically! No more searching for sounds and assigning them each individually.
In addition, SoundPackager makes changing your mind easy. Switching packages is one click away. And when you want to take a break from the excitement, a single click restores the Windows default sounds. Simple. Elegant. Powerful.
System Requirements: Windows XP or Vista
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A full screen, settable countdown timer with audio prompts more>> A full screen, settable countdown timer with audio prompts
The countDownTimer application was designed to be a simple standalone countdown timer that provides visual and auditory cues regarding the timers status.
Timers are often used in classrooms to limit activities, to aid students with transitioning from one activity to another, or for timing activities like cooking. Countdown was designed to work along with Launcher6, and responds to keyboard commands the same way as Launcher6 as noted below.
Like Launcher6 any changes to Countdowns setup are saved automatically in a text file called "countdown.tsu"in the same folder as the Countdown.exe file, and the setup is automatically loaded when Countdown is opened again.
Main features:
- Set Minutes: Choose from the drop down menu.
- Set Seconds: Choose from the drop down menu.
- Automatically Start Countdown: Start counting down upon opening.
- Audio Count Down the Last 10 Seconds: Auditory countdown of 10, 9 , 8...
- Announce Last 4 30 Second Intervals: Auditory cues for 2 minutes, 1 minute 30 seconds...
- Use Endpoint Audio Announcement: A sound or TTS message to play at timer end.
- Use Clipboard Text-to-Speech: Use a clipboard TTS agent to produce auditory cues instead of sound files.
- Exit When Timer Expires: Close Countdown at the end of timer.
- Locate end message sound file: Find the sound file you want for your end message.
- Enter text for final message: Enter your TTS end message as text.
- Load Text-to-Speech Program: Locate your TTS program if necessary.
- Start Countdown: Return to the Countdown screen and commence counting down.
System requirements:
- At least a 233Mhz CPU and 64Mb RAM, and may require Quicktime. If you want to use the text-to-speech (TTS) feature you will also need a clipboard text to speech utility and perhaps the Microsoft Agent technology installed.
English Lessons for Children 1B 1.0
This is the second book in a series of ESL for children?s textbooks. It is written for young children who are learning the second half of the alphabet letter names and their sounds. It allows the chil more>>
This is an English as a Second Language textbook written for young children. The children will progress with their understanding, speaking, reading and writing as they progress through the textbook.
IT?S USER FRIENDLY
- It is classroom tested.
- It?s used in many countries.
- The lessons are ready to use.
- The Practice Book provides an opportunity for the teacher to attend to special needs.
- The Teacher?s Guide supplies colorful games that review the content.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ?FROM M TO Z?
The structure of this children?s ESL book is based on the recommendations of many researchers.
TESTIMONIAL:
?I think what you guys have been doing is really great and helpful. I played the game with the kids and they really enjoyed it?
DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING
This textbook allows ESL children to use all five learning modalities. - visual, auditory, speech, tactile and kinesthetic.
PRACTICE BOOK
This kids? ESL book provides independent work for the children. The students will need very little instruction about what they are to do. There are two pages of simple assignments to accompany each lesson.
TEACHER?S GUIDE
The Teacher?s Guide includes a variety of activities suitable for small and large groups. The games relate directly to specific lessons and reinforce the concepts that have been taught.
GAMES:
The games provided in this Guide provide essential listening and speaking activities. Games make ESL for kids fun ? they accelerate learning.
SUMMARY
This is the second book in a series of ESL for children?s textbooks. It is written for young children who are learning the second half of the alphabet letter names and their sounds. It allows the children to learn through all five modalities. It is classroom tested, the lessons are ready to use and the teacher can present each lesson by referring to only one book. Its user friendly attributes have made it a popular kids? ESL textbook in many countries of the world.
GONG! 2.0
Gong is a free application which offers fast, flexible control over your system volume more>>
Main features:
- Fast, flexible control over your system volume
- Set additional sound events such as chimes
- Make your computer sound like a grandfather clock
- Set a sleep time to keep your computer quiet at night
- Set graphical and/or auditory reminders
- See a countdown on your screen when its time to leave work
- Keep your system time accurate with the atomic clock
- Make decisions with the Hainted 8-Ball
- Quickly access a calendar in 2-clicks!
Set graphical and/or auditory reminders in 2-clicks. See a countdown on your screen when its time to leave work. Keep your system time accurate with the atomic clock. Quickly access a calendarLicense:Freeware
TCExam 9.0.013
Replace old pencil-and-paper testing system and simplify entire exam cycle. more>>
TCExam 9.0.013 offers a powerful utility for educators and trainers to, plan, send, and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams. It is Free Open Source Software, Web-Based, Platform Independent, Language Independent (includes translations in several languages and RTL support) and conforms to W3C Accessibility and Usability guidelines to provide equal opportunity to people with disabilities, including blind users.
TCExam is Web-based and it can be installed on almost any server. For users (test-takers), all TCExam requires is a computer or PDA with a Web browser (i.e. Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer) and an Internet or Intranet connection to the TCExam Web server. TCExam automates all assessment phases: authoring, scheduling, delivering, and reporting. It's easy to use and do not require expensive hardware to run, nor additional commercial software.
The general advantages of TCExam over traditional Pen-and-Paper Testing (PPT) includes: increased delivery, administration and scoring efficiency; reduced costs for many elements of the testing lifecycle; improved test security resulting from electronic transmission and encryption; consistency and reliability; faster and more controlled test revision process with shorter response time; faster decision-making as the result of immediate scoring and reporting; unbiased test administration and scoring; fewer response entry and recognition errors; fewer comprehension errors caused by the testing process; improved translation and localization with universal availability of content; new advanced and flexible item types; increased candidate acceptance and satisfaction; evolutionary step toward future testing methodologies.
Major Features:
- Free and Open Source: Open Source promotes software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of source code. TCExam is a Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) by adopting the GNU-GPL (General Public License). The general advantages derived by the Open Source model adoption are:
- Openness: All advantages of Open Source are a result of its openness. Having the code makes it easy to resolve problems (by yourself or the next guy) which means that you don't have to rely on only one vendor for fixing potential problems.
- Stability: Since you can rely on anyone and since the license states that any modification shipped elsewhere should be equally open, this means that after a period of time Open Source software is more stable then most commercially distributed software.
- Adaptability: Open Source software means Open Standards, thus it is easy to adapt software to work closely with other Open Source software and even closed protocols and proprietary applications. This solves vendor lock-in situations which ties your hands and knees to one and only one vendor if you choose one's products.
- Quality: A wide community of users and developers does not only ensure stability, but also supplies new possibilities, making Open Source software a feature-rich solution. New features, less bugs and a broader (testing) audience (peer-review) are significant to the quality of a product.
- Innovation: Competition drives innovation and Open Source keeps competition alive. As no-one has an unfair advantage, everybody has the possibility to add value and provide services. Information wants to be free.
- Security: It is widely known that security by obscurity is not a secure practice in the long run. By opening the code and by wide adoption of Open Source software, it grows more secure.
- Community Support
- The TCExam project is managed and distributed trough the SourceForge.net repository. SourceForge.net is currently the world's largest Open Source software development web site. SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. Through the SourceForge.net Web site, TCExam users can download the latest version, read the latest news, get support, submit bugs, submit patches or request new features.
- The community support is an important part of the TCExam development process. TCExam is in continuing development to reflect the real needs of the users and improve all aspects of the software quality.
- Platform Independent
- TCExam is a Web-based application developed on the popular LAMP platform (GNU-Linux Operative System, Apache Web server, MySQL Database Management System and PHP programming language). Part of TCExam's attraction is that it can be installed on almost any server that can run PHP, including Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows systems. The database is fully documented to be easily extended or accessed by external applications. In addition, PostgreSQL can be used instead of MySQL and it is also possible to add drivers for other DBMS. No additional commercial or expensive software is required to run TCExam. This gives TCExam great installation flexibility in existing environments (i.e. a PC on a school computer room or a commercial remote Web-Server).
- TCExam uses a common Three-Tier structure. Administration and public areas are physically separated on file system to improve security.
- As a Web-based application, TCExam runs on a Web server and uses Web pages as the user interface. For users, all TCExam requires is a computer or PDA with a Web browser (i.e. Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer) and an Internet or Intranet connection to the TCExam Web server. No additional software or specific hardware is required to use TCExam.
- No Expensive Hardware Requirements
- The LAMP platform and the flexible technical requirements make it possible to install TCExam on almost any computer and even run it on shared Web servers managed by Web hosting providers. Experimental results shows that a five years old PC, based on AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor, 1GB RAM and a 100Mbps Ethernet card, may easily handle 50 tests at the same time. This feature is particularly important to gap the digital divide with developing countries or rural areas, where modern hardware is unavailable or too expensive.
- Internationalization (I18N)
- TCExam is language independent by adopting the UTF-8 Unicode charset and TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) standard. TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) is the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools. The purpose of TMX is to allow easier exchange of translation memory data between tools and/or translation vendors with little or no loss of critical data during the process. All TCExam translations are included in a single XML file that could be easily edited manually or with a dedicated CAT tool. In this way everyone may download TCExam and add a new language translation without waiting the next software release.
- TCExam supports Right-To-Left languages (i.e. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) and already includes translations in several languages. The users may change the interface language at any time by using the selector at the end of each page.
- Accessibility and Usability
- It is essential that CBA tools be accessible in order to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities. TCExam generates Web interfaces that conform to the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard and W3C-WAI-WCAG 1.0 Accessibility and Usability guidelines. The graphic aspect of the user's interfaces is fully handled by CSS level 2 style sheets. CSS benefits accessibility primarily by separating document structure from presentation. Style sheets were designed to allow precise control - outside of mark-up - of character spacing, text alignment, object position on the page, audio and speech output, font characteristics, etc.
- W3C-WAI LogoXHTML1.0 LogoW3C-CSS Logo
- Accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the TCExam. More specifically, means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the TCExam software. Accessibility also benefits others, including people with "temporary disabilities" such as a broken arm, and people with changing abilities due to aging. Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities. Web accessibility also benefits people without disabilities in certain situations, such as people using a slow Internet connection.
- Usability measures the quality of a user's experience when interacting with the software application. In general, usability refers to how well users can learn and use a product to achieve their goals and how satisfied they are with that process. It is important to realize that usability is not a single, one-dimensional property of a user interface. Usability is a combination of factors including:
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- Ease of learning - How fast can a user who has never seen the user interface before learn it sufficiently well to accomplish basic tasks?
- Efficiency of use - Once an experienced user has learned to use the system, how fast can he or she accomplish tasks?
- Memorability - If a user has used the system before, can he or she remember enough to use it effectively the next time or does the user have to start over again learning everything?
- Error frequency and severity - How often do users make errors while using the system, how serious are these errors, and how do users recover from these errors
- Subjective satisfaction - How much does the user like using the system
- TCExam has been successfully tuned to be easily used by blind users.
- Data Import and Export
- To improve the software flexibility and compatibility with other CBA software, e-learning applications or existing databases, TCExam includes some tools to directly export or import users, questions or results data using various open formats: CSV (Comma Separated Values), XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) and PDF (Portable Document Format). The detailed results in PDF format can be automatically sent by email to each user. In addition, the database is fully documented in order to make it easily accessible by external applications (i.e. phpMyAdmin) to perform custom data import/export or backup procedures.
- The current TCExam version includes RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) modules, to directly access existing large database of users. Other authentication modules can be easily added to TCExam to meet specific needs.
- Rich Content
- TCExam uses a custom mark-up language to add text formatting, images, multimedia objects (audio and video) and mathematical formulas (supports LaTeX). TCExam includes a simple graphic interface with buttons to easily format the text or add external objects (i.e. images, audio files, videos, flash animations, etc ...). Generally, any object that could be rendered with a Web browser using a specific plug-in can be added to the TCExam questions, alternative answers or general descriptions.
- The mark-up language used by TCExam is similar to the common BBCode (Bulletin Board Code), the lightweight mark-up language used to format posts in many message boards. The available tags are indicated by rectangular brackets surrounding a keyword, and they are parsed by the TCExam system before being translated into a XHTML or PDF. The TCExam mark-up code was devised to provide a safer, easier and more limited way of allowing users to format their content.
- Using the special tag "[tex]" or TEX button it's possible to add LaTeX code to represent mathematical formulas, tables or graphs. LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing. The TCExam LaTeX renderer converts the code to a PNG image to be displayed or printed
- Unique Test
- In TCExam, questions are grouped into topics. TCExam can store an unlimited number of topics. Each topic can contain an unlimited number of questions and each question can have an unlimited number of alternative answers. A TCExam test can include several topics. For each topic or group of topics TCExam randomly extracts a specified number of questions with certain characteristics (i.e.: question type, question difficulty and number of alternative answers to be displayed). If the question bank is large enough, TCExam may generate unique test for each user by randomly selecting and ordering questions and alternative answers. This drastically reduces or eliminates the risk of copying between users.
Enhancements:
- Unspecified updates
- Enhancements
- Bug fixes.
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