Toggle-tongue language education method and apparatus
OwnerEphraim Feiginventor
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Abstract
A language teaching device utilizes video with audio components of several languages, typically two. The various characters in the video can speak in the several languages. Using simple point-and-click technology, a user can have each of the various characters speak in any of the several languages, enabling arbitrary combination of character-language pairs.
Claims17
A multi-language video playback device comprising specially encoded audio and video files in which several of the speaking characters speak in several languages.
A multi-language video playback device wherein said audio-video file comprises a video track encoded using the MPEG video encoding standard, a main audio track is encoded using the MPEG audio encoding standard, and the various audio tracks of the toggling characters are encoded as wav file segments.
A system comprising:
- a display;
- an audio output;
- at least one figure displayed on said display;
- selector for said at least one figure;
- said selector selects from at least two states of said at least one figure, one of said at least two states activates an audio output in a first language, another of said at least two states activates an audio output in a second language.
A system comprising:
- a display;
- an audio output;
- means for displaying figures on said display;
- means for selecting from at least two states of said at least one figure, one of said at least two states activates an audio output in a first language, another of said at least two states activates an audio output in a second language.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.