Jolanta Bachan

Syllabus

1. HTML and creating websites and web portfolios
2. OpenOffice.org
   • Writer: document formatting, creating posters
   • Impress: creating presentations with graphics
   • Draw: creating flowcharts
   • Calc: working with spreadsheets
3. Annotation in Praat
4. Speech synthesis with MBROLA
5. Manual Close Copy Speech (MCCS) synthesis

Requirements

1. Web Portfolio
2. Professionally formatted OO document
3. Presenting an OO presentation
4. Creating a manually close copied MBROLA PHO file

Class materials

1. 2008-02-22
• Organisation
• Creating web portfolio
• Introduction to HTML
2. 2008-02-26
• HTML, cont.: lists, tables, images, hyperlinks
• Creating a free website
3. 2008-03-04 - Please, send me your web URLs!
• Working on websites & blogs
• Homework - Read:
  
  1. Gibbon, D. 2004. "What a Linguist Needs to Know about Word Processing"
  2. Gibbon, D. 2007. "Stylesheet for Term Papers and Theses": PDF, OTT
4. 2008-03-11
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Introduction to text formatting
• The triadic Content-Structure-Rendering (CSR) sign model
5. 2008-03-18
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Styles and Formatting
  • Paragraph Styles: Title, Subtitle, Author, Date/Year, Heading 1-10
  • Page Styles: Title Page, Report Page
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Tools
  • Outline Numbering - Outline Numbering for Heading 1-10
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Insert
  • Header with Fields: Author's Name, Page Number and Page Count, Paper Title
  • Picture with Caption
  • Cross-reference to the Picture
  • Footnote
6. 2008-04-01
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Tables and Table fromatting
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Indexes and Tables
  • Table of Contents
  • Index of Tables
  • Index of Figures
7. 2008-04-08
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Styles and Formatting
  • Lists: Define your own list style, Restart Numbering function
  • Text Position
  • Page Styles: Title Page, Index Page, Right Page, Left Page, Empty Page
  • Page
    • Page size
    • Page margins
    • Page layout: Right and Left, Mirrored, Only Right, Only Left
    • Header
    • Footer
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Tools - Bibliography Database
• OpenOffice.org Writer - Insert
  • Manual Break (Page Break, Line Break)
  • Indexes and Tables
    • Bibliography Entry
    • Bibliography
• Homework: Check the Citation Styles
  • Chicago
  • APA
  • MLA
  • Turabian
  • AMA
8. 2008-04-22 & 2008-04-29
• OpenOffice.org Impress
9. 2008-05-06
• Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld): On Ambiguity, or: Why Communication is Nearly Impossible
10. 2008-05-13
• OpenOffice.org Impress: Presentations by students
• Organisation of work
11. 2008-05-20
• OpenOffice.org Draw and Calc in a Nutshell
• Introduction to Speech synthesis
• SAMPA computer readable phonetic alphabet
12. 2008-05-27
• Introduction to Manual Close Copy Speech (MCCS) Synthesis
• Praat software - annotation in Praat
  • Audio file 1
  • Audio file 2
  • Audio file 3
13. 2008-06-03
• MBROLA speech synthesis software - Start with MBROLA
• Manual Close Copy Speech (MCCS) Synthesis