[Edu-sig] Voice-and-vision enabled open source educational software project in Python

[John Graves]

Progress on the Open Allure project

http://openallureds.org

has led to demonstrated capabilities relating to voice recognition 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKTk6rgWsA

(and, more broadly, "gesture" or touchless pointing at http://bit.ly/openallure )

which suggest the potential for this type of system to become a viable and successful platform for collaborative development of intelligent interactive tutors which talk, watch, listen and respond in pedagogically meaningful ways on a wide variety of topics.  

The code for Open Allure is open source Python and the current version taps into the pygame, nltk and BeautifulSoup libraries.

Please take a look at the demonstration video(s) and consider, at least, sharing your ideas at 

http://www.allourideas.org/openallure

If you'd like to be kept updated with developments on the project, please subscribe to the YouTube channel (above) or the Google discussion list at

http://bit.ly/openalluregg

Your insights and contributions will be much appreciated.

John Graves
john.graves at aut.ac.nz
PhD Student
Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand