Stay Tooned
Stay Tooned, developed at Stanford University, helped foreign language students practice dialog by first reading and hearing a story, and then creating their own. Students clicked speech bubbles to see and hear what the characters were saying. Clicking a bubble could display its text, play its recorded sound, or both. Each bubble could show and play the target language and a translation. Students could enter their own text and record their voices for each bubble.
With built-in microphones and ability to integrate sound, text, and images, NeXT computers were uniquely suited to create truly interactive courseware for foreign language instruction.
The contact was:
Brodie Lockard John Barson
Programmer Professor of French, Teaching
brod@jessica.stanford.edu, (415) 725-3155 barson@portia.stanford.edu, (415) 723-4183