What-is-Spoken-Tutorial/D0/What-is-Spoken-Tutorial-12min/English-timed

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Narration

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Welcome to a presentation that introduces the spoken tutorial technology that has the potential to make India IT literate.

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My name is Kannan Moudgalya. I am from IIT Bombay. I lead this project.

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What is a Spoken Tutorial?

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It is a recording of a computer session

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explaining some software along with a running commentary

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The resulting movie is the spoken tutorial

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Typically of 10 minute duration

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Steps in Creating Spoken Tutorials are

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Outline

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Script

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Recording

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Translating the script into other languages and

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Dubbing

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Let me explain each of these steps

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We will show the outline of two software systems:

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Xfig and PHP/MySQL

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I have already downloaded all the required links for this tutorial from http://spoken-tutorial.org

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Let us see the outline for Xfig

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Let us see the outline for PHP

01:15

Let us go to the next slide

01:19

The 2nd step in creating spoken tutorials is the Script

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As a movie needs a good script

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A spoken tutorial also needs a good script

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The script of the current tutorial is here

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The guidelines to write a script are here

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A tutorial that explains the guidelines will also be available soon

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I will now create a short spoken tutorial that explains how to send an email from a gmail account

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Let me invoke iShowU, a screen recording software

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Observe a rectangle on the screen

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whatever comes within this rectangle will get recorded

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I have opened Netscape

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I have placed it exactly within this rectangle

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It is pointing to gmail

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I will speak in Tamil

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Let me start recording

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Guest.spoken aaga login seygiren gmail ai thirandagi vittadu

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compose button moolam aarambikap pogiren kannan@iitb.ac.in

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Subject :Test

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ingu varuvom

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This is a test mail

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Send button moolam email ai anuppugiren

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ippodu sign out seygiren nanri, vanakkam

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I just ended the recording

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Immediately, the recording software creates a movie

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Let me first close Netscape and iShowU.

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Let me now play the recorded movie .

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“Recording plays”

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Let us advance it

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“Recording plays”

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Let me close this

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Let us now go to the next slide

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This is what I call as the spoken tutorial

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School going children can also create spoken tutorials – it is very easy

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Let me now explain the Tools we have for Recording

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On Linux, recordMyDesktop

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A spoken tutorial explains how to do this

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“Recording plays”

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On Windows we have Camstudio

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This spoken tutorial explains how to do this

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Both are FOSS

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A tutorial gives guidelines for narration

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Let me play that

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“Recording plays”

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Let me come back to slides

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The 4th Step in creating spoken tutorials is translating the script into Local Languages

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To make it accessible for people weak in English

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I will show translated scripts for getting started on Scilab in

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Hindi, Marathi and Bengali

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Hindi, Marathi and Bengali

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Let us go back to the browser.

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Using the script, we change the spoken part only.

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Video remains the same.

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On Linux, we can use Audacity and ffmpeg

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A spoken tutorial explains how to do this

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Let me minimise this browser

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Underneath this, I have another browser with several tabs

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Let me play this: “Recording plays”

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On Windows, we can use Movie Maker

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A spoken tutorial explains how to do this

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Let us go to the next slide

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We will now see Scilab spoken tutorials in Hindi, Malayalam and Bengali.

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“Recording plays” let me play Malayalam “Recording plays” let me play bengali “Recording plays”

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Let us go to back here slides

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Let us discuss how to present complex topics through spoken tutorials.

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After all, a spoken tutorial is only ten minutes long.

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By combining spoken tutorials, advanced topics can also be taught.

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If sufficient small steps are available,

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Himalayas can also be climbed.

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Let us now view the study plans for LaTeX and Scilab

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LaTeX study plans

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Scilab study plans

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Let us go to the next slide.

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One can bridge digital divide through spoken tutorials.

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For example, one can explain how to buy train tickets through irctc

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How to locate low cost agricultural loans.

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How to locate information on primary health care.

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How to obtain information on first aid.

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How to do web search to locate the shop that sells Tvs at the lowest price.

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Indeed, this list is endless.

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As a matter of fact, this approach can be used to bridge digital divide.

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Spoken tutorials are released under creative commons license.

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These are available for free download from the spoken tutorial website.

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Let us discuss the honorarium available for creating a ten minute spoken tutorial

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Rs. 3,500 to create script and slides

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Rs. 500 for review by novice or beginner

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Rs. 1,000 for recording the spoken tutorial - this can be done by the beginner as well

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Rs. 1,000 for translation into a local language

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Rs. 500 for dubbing into a local language.

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To be paid after review and acceptance.

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The above amounts are for a ten minute spoken tutorial. Actual honorarium will be proportional to the number of minutes.

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There is a one time bonus of Rs. 5,000 also

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Our target audience is a remote child,

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working alone at midnight,

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without anyone to help her.

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In other words, spoken tutorials need to be created for self learning.

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We actively promote Open Source Software

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Conduct workshops through student clubs, using spoken tutorials and financial support

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We also look for Campus Ambassadors

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We have a spoken tutorial on Campus Ambassador programme

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Let us play it “Recording plays”

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Let us show the web site of our project, http://spoken-tutorial.org

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The current tutorial is available here

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Where to contact us is here

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A list of FOSS systems is available through the wiki – let us click this

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You may join the effort on any of these

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You may also propose work on new systems

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Please feel free to contact us.

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Let us go to the next slide. We welcome your participation.

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To create, review and use spoken tutorials

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We also need technology support

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We have lots of jobs as well.

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Work with us, full time or part time.

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Why should you work with us?

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To remove digital divide

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To make our children IT literate

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To promote FOSS

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To make our children employable

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To make our country a developed one

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To realise the dream of Dr. Abdul Kalam

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Let us go to the next slide. We have a small assignment for you.

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Please see if you can locate all the web pages shown in this tutorial.

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I would like to acknowledge the funding support now

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Spoken tutorial is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project

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It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India

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More information on this mission is available at spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.

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12:11

We have come to the end of this tutorial

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12:14

Thanks for joining us

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12:15

This is Kannan Moudgalya signing off Goodbye and Jai Hind

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