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[Tiger12506]

If you just draw rectangles, you would have to track the mouse cursor and 
check to see if it's within the boundaries of a rectangle manually. I 
suggest using buttons. It will be easier to know when the mouse is over 
them.

> Hello,
>
>    The attached code makes a number of colored rectangles visible
> in a canvas. Each rectangle should match with a pre-recorded sound
> file (in .wav or other format) containing the pronunciation of a
> letter of the alphabet in a given language. For instance, the first
> rectangle, in white, should correspond to the sound "a" (let's say,
> in Spanish) and it should be heard once the cursor is inside the
> rectangle. This can easily be done with the "PlaySound" command of
> "winsound". It is less obvious to find the proper binding event that
> will both play the sound "a" and show the corresponding sign (or
> letter) "a", preferably in a blinking mode, after a short time
> interval within the rectangle.
>
>    Can someone suggest a possible solution to this problem?
>
>    Moreover, as the complete set of rectangles should, in
> principle, represent all sounds of a given language, it also should
> be possible to generate any word in that language by moving the
> cursor from one rectangle to the other - just as a teacher would move
> a pointer to similar signs if they were shown on a blackboard. For
> instance, in order to produce the word "amigo" (if we stick to our
> Spanish example) she first would point at the white rectangle, then
> at another rectangle (not shown here) corresponding to the sound and
> the sign "m", then at a third one for "i", and so on until the whole
> word has been formed.
>
>     The word itself (and, in fact, entire sentences) could be
> heard after having been pre-recorded in a lexical database. The user
> could then be asked to write the letter, word or phrase he/she has
> just heard in a text area below the set of rectangles. He/she could
> also be asked to repeat the same sounds (letter, word and sentences)
> in order to receive a corrected feed-back, provided some voice
> recognition and synthesis devices were available.
>
>     The functionalities I am trying to implement for this purpose
> (aside from the more traditional ones of resetting, erasing text and
> quitting the program) are those that will enable the user to hear a
> sound (letter, word or whole sentence), write what he/she has heard
> in a text area, repeat it and wait for a corrected answer through a
> voice recognition and synthesis process. Can this be done in Python?
>
>     Thank you in advance for any suggestion or answer, even
> partial, to my question.
>
>
>
>


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