Gio-Key-Board 05-2006

GioKeyBoard is a freely definable, multimedia Initial-Sound-Keyboard (keyboard for children) with inserted WriteProgram. Keyboard-layout (1-450 keys), key-allocations (with letters, special characters, text modules, shortcuts, ...), initial-sound-pictures, key-size, acoustic-outputs, sounds, fonts, colors, ... are freely definable. The key-graphics can be shown and hided like the text-editor. Also HTML-files (with links, images, image-maps, tables, ...) can be used as keyboard-layouts. The speaking Initial-Sound-Keyboard with initial-sound-table-character alternatively could be used with external word-processing programs (e.g. Open Office, Word, WordPad, ...) or with the Speaking Text-Processing with spelling functions. Letters and initial-sound-examples (e.g. "A" - "Apple") are linguistically sounded. Letters, words and texts in the text-editor can be read out loud, spelled and/or recorded with the audio-recorder. Gio-Key-Board is language-independent and can be used multilingual. The child-write-program for pupils can support the first (primary) reading and writing skills, teaching, and promotes free writing. (The "kids-keyboard" could also be used from "adults" e.g. as "task bar" for macros, special characters, ...) Installation-Hints: Download self-extracting WinRar archive Gio-Key-Board.exe and extract/unpack it. >>> execute Gio_Key_Board.exe. If the text-editor should always be shown after program-start, Gio_Key_Board.exe must be renamed to Gio_Key_Board[E].exe! All speech- and audio-outputs are changeable! Simply with the microphone record new sound and e.g. replace "a.wav". Please use no letter-names (Bi, Ci, Di... Zet), because children will read BijUeS instead of BUS! If children are working with the program, then hide or lock the Frame-Buttons. If the Microsoft Reader with the Text-to-Speech-Package is installed, Gio-Key-Board could read any texts (using SAPI).