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The Shtooka Project brings together both science and education, to achieve its main purpose of establishing free audio collections of words and phrases in different languages through the recording of native speakers.

The Shtooka Project is also developing educational programs (TICE: Technologies of Information and Communication for Education ) to take advantage of these collections.

Actualité
  • 28/03/2010 : Ajax suggestions on swac-collections.org
    The site for consulting the audio collections (swac-collections.org) now has an immediate response system to what you type; When you start to type the word you’re looking for, the corresponding recordings will be suggested
  • 17/03/2010 : A collection of English proverbs
    The English proverbs recorded by Judith are now online : swac-collections.org. Happy listening
  • 17/03/2010 : Mandarin and Shanghaian recordings for the Petit Lexique Audio
    The words and expressions that Congcong recorded on March 13 are online in the Petit Lexique Audio
  • 17/03/2010 : A new site for consulting the collections
    The Shtooka association now has a new website for consulting the audio collections. Come and have a look : http://swac-collections.org !
  • 14/03/2010 : Polish recordings
    On February 21, Yolande Wandolski recorded the Petit Lexique Audio in Polish and it’s now online on the Petit Lexique Audio page. There’ll soon be more in Polish as Yolande has accepted to record a longer list of words. A new complete collection is in the pipeline!
  • 12/03/2010 : Recordings in Dutch
    Some recordings in Dutch, made by Dorenda in February, are now online. There are numerical adjectives, the Petit Lexique Audio vocabulary and some proverbs. Get your earphones on!
  • 11/01/2010 : Some new collections
    The second half of 2009 has been rich in new recordings. With collections in Mandarin, Ukrainian (words and proverbs), Serbian, English (British and American), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), French (proverbs with the voice of Tristan Nitot) ... In all, more than 17 000 new recordings have been made since August 2009!

The association

Since July 2009, the Shtooka Project has established a non-profit organisation, with the object of creating free audio collections of words and expressions as well as developing software tools to exploit these collections. We need community contributions to achieve these goals. Don't hesitate to help us either by joining this project or by providing contributions (or both).

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The Shtooka association

Since July 2009, the Shtooka Project has established a non-profit organisation, with the object of creating free audio collections of words and expressions as well as developing software tools to exploit these collections. We need community contributions to achieve these goals. Do not hesitate in helping us by either joining this project or by providing any contributions.

Paris Meetings

Every 2 weeks, the association gathers in a Paris cafe to raise awareness, discuss upcoming projects, take stock of ongoing projects, all in a friendly atmosphere. Come and meet us. The next meeting will take place at the Pouchla café "(10 rue Mandar, in the second arrondissement of Paris, near the rue Montorgueil):
  • Tuesday, April 27 at 18.30
See you there!

Collections audio

Audio collections Homepages

The Shtooka Project has recorded some free audio collections of words which are documented in this section of the site.

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Online consultation interface for the SWACs (Shtooka Word Audio Collections)

You can consult and download all the SWACs at wwww.swac-collections.org.

Documentation

SWAC Metatags

SWAC Metatags is a field naming scheme which enables the storage of information used by audio collections of words and sentences. These collections can be useful for teaching and can illustrate electronic dictionaries.

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Software

Swac Tools

Swac Tools is a set of programs for GNU/Linux written in C++ that allows you to get the most out of Shtooka words audio collections (SWAC). At the moment, there are 4 programs:

  • swac-get which enables you to load into a SQLite3 database of audio collections.
  • swac-explore which allows you to browse the database and listen audio files.
  • swac-play a simple command line player for SWAC audio collections.
  • swac-scan a Vorbis Comment tags and Id3v2 tags scanner that enables the generation of XML indexes for SWAC audio collections.

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Shtooka Explorer

Shtooka Explorer is a program that enables the browsing of audio collections of words (SWAC). These collections of words can be on your own computer but you can also get sound files directly from the Internet. There are currently more than 75 000 words in our server (fra, eng, dut, deu, chi, swe, rus, bel, ukr).

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Shtooka Recorder

Shtooka Recorder is a program for Microsoft Windows which allows automated recording of the pronunciation of many words, expressions, and/or sentences from a list. (One can record an average of 500 words in 20 minutes). It can save audio files in the following formats: .wav .ogg .flac (including Vorbis Comment tag).

This program is distributed and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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Shtooka Repeat

Shtooka Repeat is a program for Windows (2000, XP...) that enables the creation of little audio dictionaries using SWAC audio collections. This can help you to learn vocabulary.

This program is distributed and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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Some resources that use the SWACS

Articles on the Internet (all in French)

Contact

You can reach us by mail at this address:

Feel free to join us on freenode IRC channel #shtooka irc.freenode.net.

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