3DLanguage: Spain is a virtual Spanish town for learning and practicing Spanish. We have combined the Torque Game Engine with a very robust speech recognition engine to make a compelling interactive experience. Some of the developers went so far as to live in Spain to make sure we got it right.
Virtual Spaniards inhabit the town, waiting for you to interact with them. The conversations are the heart of the program and take place in an interface we call the VoiceBox. The VoiceBox contains both sides of the dialog in Spanish, a phonetic pronunciation guide, and English. The initial release includes 8 characters with 2+ conversations each, covering the basics of conversational Spanish: pleasantries, directions, shopping, weather, etc. The dialogs are branching and the player has the ability to:
- Hear entire sentences before speaking them
- Hear single words
- Bring up help and definitions for each word
- Pause or rewind the conversation to practice specific sentences
- Receive numerical ratings on how accurately you spoke the sentences
- Selectively turn off the Spanish, phonetic, and/or English words to practice without the help they provide
- Turn off the entire VoiceBox for a real test!
In addition, many of the objects in the world are interactive. When you mouse over them they show the name of the object in Spanish. If you right click on the object it brings up a dialog box with more information and a speaker box to let you hear the word. Try 3DLanguage: Spain today! Click here to download and start speaking Spanish right now!
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