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Time	Narration
00:00	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial Introduction to KTouch.
00:04	In this tutorial you will learn about KTouch and the KTouch interface.
00:10	You will learn how to type:
00:11	Accurately, quickly, and efficiently, on a computer keyboard that has the English alphabet keys.
00:18	You will also learn to:
00:20	Type without having to look down at every time you type.
00:24	What is KTouch?
00:27	KTouch is a typing tutor. It teaches you how to type using an online interactive keyboard.
00:33	You can learn typing at your own pace.
00:36	You can gradually increase your typing speed and along with it, your accuracy.
00:43	KTouch also has lectures or typing samples, in various levels of difficulty, for you to practice with.
00:50	Here, we are using KTouch 1.7.1 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.
00:59	You can install KTouch using the Ubuntu Software Centre.
01:03	For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.
01:11	Let’s open KTouch.
01:13	First, click Dash Home, which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop.
01:21	The Search box appears.
01:24	In the Search box type KTouch.
01:28	The KTouch icon appears beneath the Search box.Click on it.
01:34	The KTouch window appears.
01:36	Alternately, you can open KTouch using the Terminal.
01:41	To open a Terminal press the CTRL and ALT and T keys together.
01:47	To open KTouch, in the Terminal, type the command: ktouch and press Enter.
01:55	Now, let’s familiarize ourselves with the KTouch interface.
01:59	The Main menu comprises the File, Training, Settings, and Help menus.
02:06	Click Start New Session to start a new session to practice typing.
02:11	Click Pause Session to pause while typing.
02:14	Click on Lecture Statistics to know your typing progress.
02:19	Level indicates the level of complexity, in terms of the number of keys used when typing.
02:27	Speed indicates the number of characters that you can type per minute.
02:32	The Correctness indicator displays the percentage correctness of typing.
02:39	The New Characters in This Level field displays the characters that you need to practice at the selected level.
02:47	The Teacher’s Line displays the characters that have to be typed.
02:51	The Student’s Line displays the characters that are typed by you using the keyboard.
02:58	The Keyboard is displayed in the centre.
03:02	The first line of the keyboard displays numerals, special characters, and the Backspace key.
03:09	Press the Backspace key to delete typed characters.
03:13	The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets few special characters, and the Tab key.
03:20	The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets,colon, semicolon, and Caps lock keys.
03:28	Press the Enter key to go to the next line while typing.
03:33	Press the Caps Lock key to type capital letters.
03:37	The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters, and shift keys.
03:45	Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters.
03:52	Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.
03:59	For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top. To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1.
04:11	The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt, and Function keys.It also contains the space bar.
04:20	Now let us see if there are differences between the KTouch keyboard, laptop keyboard, and desktop keyboard.
04:29	Notice that the KTouch keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar.
04:36	Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard.
04:41	Look at this slide.
04:42	It displays the fingers and their names.
04:46	Fingers, from left to right, are named: Little finger,
04:51	Ring finger, Middle finger,
04:54	Index finger and Thumb
04:59	On your keyboard, place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard.
05:03	Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’
05:07	Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’,
05:10	Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’,
05:13	Index finger on alphabet ‘F’.
05:17	Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard.
05:20	Ensure that the little finger is on the colon/semi-colon key.
05:25	Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L’.
05:28	Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’.
05:30	Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’.
05:34	Use your right thumb to press the space bar.
05:37	The first time you open KTouch, the Teacher’s Line displays default text.
05:44	This text lists instructions on how to select the lecture and begin the typing lessons.
05:51	For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall skip typing the default text and select a lecture.
05:57	However, you can pause this tutorial, and type the default text.
06:02	Now, let us select the lecture to begin the typing lessons.
06:07	From the Main menu, select File, click Open Lecture.
06:12	The Select Training Lecture File – ‘KTouch’ dialog box appears.
06:17	Browse the flowing folder path Root->usr->share->kde4->apps->Ktouch
06:31	And select english.ktouch.xml and click Open.
06:36	Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays a different set of characters.
06:41	Now, let us start typing
06:43	By default, the Level is set to 1 and the Speed is set to zero.
06:49	The New Characters in This Level displays the characters we will learn in this level.
06:55	Notice that the cursor is in the Student’s Line.
06:58	Let us type the character displayed in the teacher's line using the keyboard.
07:09	As we type, the characters are displayed in the Student’s Line.
07:14	Look at the Speed field now.
07:16	As you type, the number increases or decreases based on the speed of your typing.
07:22	If you stop typing, the speed count decreases.
07:25	Now, let’s type the numbers seven & eight, which are not displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
07:31	The Student Line has become red.
07:34	Why? That’s because we have mistyped or made an error in typing.
07:40	Let’s delete it and complete the typing.
07:56	When you reach the end of the line, press the Enter key, to move to the second line.
08:02	Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays the next set of characters to type.
08:07	The Student’s line is cleared of the typed text.
08:11	Let’s check how accurately we have typed.
08:14	The Correctness field displays the percentage of correctness of your typing.For example, it may display 80 percent.
08:23	We have completed our first typing lesson!
08:26	It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.
08:31	Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.
08:37	Let’s begin a new typing session.
08:40	Click Start New Session.
08:42	In the Start New Training Session – ‘KTouch’ dialog box, click Start from First Level.
08:50	What do you see?
08:52	A set of characters are displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
08:55	The Student’s Line is cleared of all characters and is blank.
09:00	Let’s start typing.
09:05	While practicing, you may want to pause and restart later.
09:09	How do you pause your session?
09:12	Click pause session.
09:14	Notice that the speed does not decrease.
09:17	Recall, that it decreased when we stopped typing without pausing the earlier session.
09:23	To resume typing, type the next character or word, displayed in the Teacher’s line.
09:39	Once we complete typing, we can check the Correctness field.It displays the accuracy of typing.
09:46	This brings us to the end of this tutorial on KTouch.
09:50	In this tutorial we learnt about the KTouch interface. We also learnt how to: Place our fingers on the key board.
09:59	Type by looking at the Teacher’s Line. And completed our first typing lesson.
10:04	Here is an assignment for you.
10:06	Open KTouch. Complete the typing lesson in level 1. Practice typing with this level.
10:13	Remember to use the correct fingers for the keys.
10:18	Watch the video available at the following link.It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
10:24	If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
10:28	The spoken tutorial team conduct workshops using spoken tutorials give certificates to those who pass an online test.
10:37	For more details Please write to contact @spoken-tutorial.org.
10:43	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
10:47	It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
10:55	More information on the same is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro
11:06	This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Thanks for joining

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 |What is KTouch?
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 |KTouch is a typing tutor. It teaches you how to type using an online interactive keyboard.
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 |You can learn typing at your own pace.
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 |You can gradually increase your typing speed and along with it, your accuracy.
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 |KTouch also has lectures or typing samples, in various levels of difficulty, for you to practice with.
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 |Here, we are using KTouch 1.7.1 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.
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 |The KTouch window appears.
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 |Alternately, you can open KTouch using the Terminal.
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 |To open a Terminal press the CTRL and ALT and T keys together.
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 |Now, let’s familiarize ourselves with the KTouch interface.
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-|02.06
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 |Click Start New Session to start a new session to practice typing.
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-|02.11
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 |Click Pause Session to pause while typing.
 |-
-|02.14
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 |Click on Lecture Statistics to know your typing progress.
 |-
-|02.19
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 |Level indicates the level of complexity, in terms of the number of keys used when typing.
 |-
-|02.27
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 |Speed indicates the number of characters that you can type per minute.
 |-
-|02.32
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 |The Correctness indicator displays the percentage correctness of typing.
 |-
-|02.39
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 |The New Characters in This Level field displays the characters that you need to practice at the selected level.
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-|02.47
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 |The Teacher’s Line displays the characters that have to be typed.
 |-
-|02.51
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 |The Student’s Line displays the characters that are typed by you using the keyboard.
 |-
-|02.58
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 |The Keyboard is displayed in the centre.
 |-
-|03.02
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 |The first line of the keyboard displays numerals, special characters, and the Backspace key.
 |-
-|03.09
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 |Press the Backspace key to delete typed characters.
 |-
-|03.13
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 |The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets few special characters, and the Tab key.
 |-
-|03.20
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 |The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets,colon, semicolon, and Caps lock keys.
 |-
-|03.28
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 |Press the Enter key to go to the next line while typing.
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-|03.33
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 |Press the Caps Lock key to type  capital letters.
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-|03.37
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 |The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters, and shift keys.
 |-
-|03.45
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 |Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters.
 |-
-|03.52
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 |Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.
 |-
-|03.59
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 |For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top.
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 |The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt, and Function keys.It also contains the space bar.
 |-
-|04.20
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 |Now let us see if there are differences between the KTouch keyboard, laptop keyboard, and desktop keyboard.
 |-
-|04.29
+|04:29
 |Notice that the KTouch keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar.
 |-
-|04.36
+|04:36
 |Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard.
 |-
-|04.41
+|04:41
 |Look at this slide.
 |-
-|04.42
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 |It displays the fingers and their names.
 |-
-|04.46
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 |Fingers, from left to right, are named:
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 |Ring finger,
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 |Index finger and
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 |On your keyboard, place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard.
 |-
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 |Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’
 |-
-|05.07
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 |Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’,
 |-
-|05.10
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 |Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’,
 |-
-|05.13
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 |Index finger on alphabet ‘F’.
 |-
-|05.17
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 |Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard.
 |-
-|05.20
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 |Ensure that the little finger is on the colon/semi-colon key.
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-|05.25
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 |Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L’.
 |-
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 |Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’.
 |-
-|05.30
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 |Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’.
 |-
-|05.34
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 |Use your right thumb to press the space bar.
 |-
-|05.37
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 |The first time you open KTouch, the Teacher’s Line displays default text.
 |-
-|05.44
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 |This text lists instructions on how to select the lecture and begin the typing lessons.
 |-
-|05.51
+|05:51
 |For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall skip typing the default text and select a lecture.
 |-
-|05.57
+|05:57
 |However, you can pause this tutorial, and type the default text.
 |-
-|06.02
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 |Now, let us select the lecture to begin the typing lessons.
 |-
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 |From the Main menu, select File, click Open Lecture.
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-|06.36
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 |Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays a different set of characters.
 |-
-|06.41
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 |Now, let us start typing
 |-
-|06.43
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 |By default, the Level is set to 1 and the Speed is set to zero.
 |-
-|06.49
+|06:49
 |The New Characters in This Level displays the characters we will learn in this level.
 |-
-|06.55
+|06:55
 |Notice that the cursor is in the Student’s Line.
 |-
-| 06.58
+| 06:58
 |Let us type the character displayed in the teacher's line using the keyboard.
 |-
-|07.09
+|07:09
 | As we type, the characters are displayed in the Student’s Line.
 |-
-|07.14
+|07:14
 |Look at the Speed field now.
 |-
-|07.16
+|07:16
 |As you type, the number increases or decreases based on the speed of your typing.
 |-
-|07.22
+|07:22
 |If you stop typing, the speed count decreases.
 |-
-|07.25
+|07:25
 |Now, let’s type the numbers seven & eight, which are not displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
 |-
-|07.31
+|07:31
 |The Student Line has become red.
 |-
-|07.34
+|07:34
 |Why? That’s because we have mistyped or made an error in typing.
 |-
-|07.40
+|07:40
 |Let’s delete it and complete the typing.
 |-
-|07.56
+|07:56
 |When you reach the end of the line, press the Enter key, to move to the second line.
 |-
-|08.02
+|08:02
 |Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays the next set of characters to type.
 |-
-|08.07
+|08:07
 |The Student’s line is cleared of the typed text.
 |-
-|08.11
+|08:11
 |Let’s check how accurately we have typed.
 |-
-|08.14
+|08:14
 |The Correctness field displays the percentage of correctness of your typing.For example, it may display 80 percent.
 |-
-|08.23
+|08:23
 |We have completed our first typing lesson!
 |-
-|08.26
+|08:26
 |It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.
 |-
-| 08.31
+| 08:31
 | Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.
 |-
-|08.37
+|08:37
 |Let’s begin a new typing session.
 |-
-|08.40
+|08:40
 |Click Start New Session.
 |-
-|08.42
+|08:42
 |In the Start New Training Session – ‘KTouch’ dialog box, click Start from First Level.
 |-
-|08.50
+|08:50
 |What do you see?
 |-
-|08.52
+|08:52
 |A set of characters are displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
 |-
-|08.55
+|08:55
 |The Student’s Line is cleared of all characters and is blank.
 |-
-|09.00
+|09:00
 |Let’s start typing.
 |-
-|09.05
+|09:05
 |While practicing, you may want to pause and restart later.
 |-
-|09.09
+|09:09
 |How do you pause your session?
 |-
-|09.12
+|09:12
 |Click pause session.
 |-
-|09.14
+|09:14
 |Notice that the speed does not decrease.
 |-
-|09.17
+|09:17
 |Recall, that it decreased when we stopped typing without pausing the earlier session.
 |-
-|09.23
+|09:23
 |To resume typing, type the next character or word, displayed in the Teacher’s line.
 |-
-|09.39
+|09:39
 |Once we complete typing, we can check the Correctness field.It displays the accuracy of typing.
 |-
-|09.46
+|09:46
 |This brings us to the end of this tutorial on KTouch.
 |-
-|09.50
+|09:50
 |In this tutorial we learnt about the KTouch interface. We also learnt how to: Place our fingers on the key board.
 |-
-|09.59
+|09:59
 |Type by looking at the Teacher’s Line. And completed our first typing lesson.
 |-
-|10.04
+|10:04
 |Here is an assignment for you.
 |-
-|10.06
+|10:06
 |Open KTouch. Complete the typing lesson in level 1. Practice typing with this level.
 |-
-|10.13
+|10:13
 |Remember to use the correct fingers for the keys.
 |-
-|10.18
+|10:18
 |Watch the video available at the following link.It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
 |-
-|10.24
+|10:24
 |If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
 |-
-|10.28
+|10:28
 |The spoken tutorial team conduct workshops using spoken tutorials give certificates to those who pass an online test.
 |-
-|10.37
+|10:37
 |For more details Please write to contact @spoken-tutorial.org.
 |-
-|10.43
+|10:43
 |Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
 |-
-|10.47
+|10:47
 |It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
 |-
-|10.55
+|10:55
 |More information on the same is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro
 |-
-|11.06
+|11:06
 |This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
 Thanks for joining