Hong Kong Schools Putonghua Competition
The 5th Kindergarten and Primary School Putonghua Contest has been successfully concluded on May 1, 2010. The prize presentation ceremony held right after the final was well-attended by over 650 students, parents and teachers. They all had a joyful and memorable moment. Well Develop has sponsored the prizes for the winners. 581 students (434 from kindergartens and 147 from primary schools) have participated in the 3 day preliminaries which were held on April 17, 18 and 25. Out of which 136 students were selected to compete in the final. Well Develop sponsored softwares were presented to the 27 winners, first and second runner-ups.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Four major state-owned enterprises and the Bank of Beijing signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hong Kong based ATV. “Quasi-shareholder” Wing Fung Holdings Chairman Wang Zheng , said he is planning to apply for a permit set up a Mandarin cable TV channel targeting at the audience of mainland China. Mr. Wang ambitiously announced that his aim is to make the whole world watch ATV which will be positioned as the Asia’s CNN. (Sing Tao Daily reported)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
From now till December 31, 2009 you can enjoy a great saving of US$15 if you order NextSpeak Mandarin TTS (US$49.95) plus Voice Memory Game (US$14.95) in a single order.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Partly because Fr. Cucchiara Memorial School uses NextSpeak Mandarin TTS to assist the teaching of Mandarin in the school, over 50% of participating students from the school obtained excellent results from the recent Public Mandarin Test. In order to encourage the students to sharpen their Mandarin conversation proficiency, the School also runs program which rewards those students who listen to Mandarin stories through NextSpeak Mandarin TTS during the holidays daily.
Fr. Cucchiara Memorial School
NextSpeak Mandarin TTS can read any Chinese text in a fluent human voice. Therefore, students can learn whatever content they are interested in.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Voice Memory Game v2.3 released today. This vers ion is ready for Windows 7. Voice Memory Game is a software that strengthens your child’s Mandarin capability. Listening and memorizing are essential elements in language learning. Through this game, learning becomes much more interesting and easier. Voice Memory Game is best use together with NextSpeak Mandarin TTS software.
For detail, click here.
Christian Action is a Hong Kong registered charitable organization established in 1985. Its mission is to help the poor and the disadvantaged in Hong Kong and China, irrespective of race, sex, religion or nationality. It offers Mandarin training for the disadvantaged and the poor in order to help them in their jobs. Its Mandarin training includes teaching basic Pin Yinand pronunciation, Daily and social Mandarin conversations, and occupational Mandarin Conversations
Well Develop released NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS Version 3.0 . A feature called “NextSpeak Recorder” has been injected to this new version. It allows user to record his/her own voice for playing back so that user can hear his/her own reading and compare it with that read by NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS.
NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS acts like a Mandarin teacher that can read any Chinese text in any documents in fluent standard Mandarin. It shows PinYin symbols to facilitate users to master the accurate pronounciation.
NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS is using the worlds’ leading Mandarin Text-To-Speech technology. NeoSpeech is the leader in speech technology and has been chosen by ODU Center for Advanced Engineering Environments at NASA Langley as a key component of a breakthrough learning environment. Its English engine has been chosen by the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in 2004 as his new voice.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Choi Hung Estate Catholic Secondary School chooses “NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS” for teaching.
Choi Hung Estate Catholic Secondary School is one of the leading secondary schools that has embraced Mandarin in its curriculum. Over 90% of its Chinese subject teachers have received Mandarin training.
Its Chinese Course Committee is actively conducting the integration of Chinese subject curriculum with Mandarin. (source: www.choihung.edu.hk/)
“NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS” is your private tutor that can read out any text in any document in fluent standard Mandarin, with PinYin symbols to facilitate you to master the accurate prounciation.
“NextSpeak – Mandarin TTS” is using the worlds’ leading Mandarin Text-To-Speech technology. NeoSpeech is the leader in speech technology and has been chosen by ODU Center for Advanced Engineering Environments at NASA Langley as a key component of a breakthrough learning environment.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Hong Kong Police Department purchases license of NextSpeak Mandarin TTS for training purpose. There is a increasing population of Mandarin spoken citizen and expatriates in Hong Kong. The use of Putonghua has become a practical need in police duties.
Many police officers learn Putonghua through multi-media or private tuition. In view of the needs, the Civil Service Training and Development Institute of Hong Kong government now provides Putonghua package through the “Cyber Learning Centre Plus” for self-learning through multi-media, , and various units in the Police Force continue providing “basic” and “job-related” Putonghua training for frontline officers, which suit their shift work.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government (CPU) purchased licenses of NextSpeak Mandarin TTS for use in the office. NextSpeak Mandarin TTS is the Mandarin text-to-speech software that helps government officials in their daily communications and speeches whenever Mandarin is used.
The CPU of the Hong Kong Government pointed out the poor Mandarin proficiency level in Mandarin speaking among government officials and thus negatively affecting Hong Kong’s image in maintaining her status as an international metropolis. The inferior level of spoken Mandarin has already caused the development of better relationships with provincial, municipal or city governments of the Mainland China.
(source: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200709/05/P200709050250.htm)
