Help wanted: <Volunteer@GnuLingo.org>

Number of contributors:  1  Task list:

• User accounts, customization & preferences.
• Two voice clips by a British native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Two voice clips by a Brazilian native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Two voice clips by a Cantonese native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Two voice clips by a French native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Two voice clips by a Mandarin native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Two voice clips by a Polish native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Two voice clips by a Tagalog native speaker — less than a minute in a quiet room will do.
• Fix HTML layout for all screen shapes and sizes.
• User tests on various devices.
• Flag icons too small on phones — maybe four across, three flags and a hamburger menu?
• Logo — a slow but sure sea turtle variation on the Lumi.net logo seen in the background.
• 501(c)(3) nonprofit boilerplate.
• Infrastructure — login/verify/forgot/test/publish/feedback/… automation.
• Verify the SVG flag images are properly licensed.
• 1648 voice clips of all 412 pinyin syllables in all 4 tones, all by the same native speaker. Three or four hours with a good microphone in a quiet room with a nice pot of tea should do.
• Tool to convert Chinese Characters to pinyin.
• Tools to convert French, English, etc. to API/IPA.
• Verify correctness of API/IPA tools, e.g., https://tophonetics.com/fr.
• Tools to clean up raw input, e.g., …

  trim silence from the start and end of voice clips normalize or compand volume Save raw audio/wave and audio/ogg & audio/opus formats

• Tool to convert images & line drawings to compact Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format.
• Evaluate drawing tools to create SVG images here online, e.g., SVGEdit and other GPL tools.
• Basic scenes — the boy/girl/man/woman/… runs/walks/drinks/eats/…
• Nursery rhymes, poetry, songs, tongue twisters, e.g., …

  Itsy Bitsy Spider It's Raining it's Pouring She Sells Seashells Humpty Dumpty Jack & Jill

  Savez-vous planter des choux L'alouette Combien sont ces saucissons-ci? As-tu vu la casquette? Il était un petit navire

  施氏食獅史 游子吟

• Locate public domain art, media & texts.
• What copyright expiration issues arise?
• Calligraphy & handwriting practice sheets and tools.
• Parameterize rice-grid.html layout, size, line styles, calligraphic examples, …
• Connect language students and teachers.

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