Dictation English

English Dictation is an educational and fun game to improve your writing skills and language knowledge. The game has settings for both the starting typist as for the seasoned typist that needs a challenge. The system has the knowledge of thousands of words.

Dictation can be used to improve your knowledge of English and foreign words. Learn how to type english words or words in another language by listening to the spoken words.

Children can use Dictation using a low speed option. For the experienced typist the speed of the game can be increased.

The Game:

• After starting the game words of 3 characters until 11 characters will be spoken that have to be typed. The typed word will be displayed using an airplane.
• The airplane will fly from the left of the screen to the right. Before touching the right side of the screen, the complete word has to be typed.
• The words will appear in batches of 10 words of the same lenght.
• After each word correctly typed, a new word will be spoken.
• In case the word is not typed correctly in time, the result will be shown. In de results screen the highscores can be viewed as well.

Score:

• The score menu will display the latest score.
• The highscore is visible for the current settings.

Setting:

• Configure the language of the words to type: english, dutch, french, german, spanish, portugese.
• Speed: speed of the airplane
• Wind scale: force of the strength with which the plane will be moved up and down.

Text to Speech support is provided by iSpeech: http://www.ispeech.org/