Speak: A Talking Face Activity On Sugarizer

Speak is a talking face activity on Sugarizer. It's as interesting way to experiment with the speech synthesizer. Speak is a useful and engaging activity for young kids and is especially helpful for children with autism as it uses assistive technology to make them speak and learn.

Objective of Speak

Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the speech synthesizer. Speak helps the children learn to type and speak in a fun and interactive way. It allows you to adjust the accent, rate and pitch of the voice as well as change the shape and number of the eyes on the talking face.

The Toolbar Buttons

1. Speak Activity Tab: Allows you to name the session and add the description. 
2. Type Something To Hear Tab: Allows you to type anything and hear the robot read it aloud
3. Ask Robot Any Question Tab: Allows you to ask robot any question, however this feature is not active on Sugarizer
4. Voice Chat Tab: This feature is not active on Sugarizer
5. Language Tab: Allows you to select and change to any language from the list in which you want the robot to speak
6. Speech Tab: Allows you to set pitch of voice and rate of delivery
7. Face Tab: Allows you to alter shape and set number of eyes on the robot face
8. Stop Tab: Allows you to Stop or close the Activity

Let's Have A Look At The Speak Activity

 

Name the Session and Add the Description

Type Anything and Hear the Robot Read it Aloud

Select Any Language From the List

Set Pitch of Voice and Rate of Delivery

Set Number of Eyes on the Robot Face

Alter Shape of Eyes on the Robot Face

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Super Chef 2: a nice game activity on Sugarlabs

American celebrity chef Buddy Valastro has said, “My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night”.

If you or your kids are interested in cooking and want to have an experience to run a restaurant, Super Chef 2 by Aurita is the best destination for you. For promoting culinary skills and restaurant management in children, Sugarlabs has come up with a nice activity game Super Chef 2.

Objective of Super Chef 2

This game is built for the young chef minds who wish to become a chef and like to serve others with their skills. This game also helps you to improve the way you organize your brain as while cooking, you need to perform a certain number steps in a particular order. So this is a nice game for the younger ones.

Serve many customers simultaneously

According to Sugarlabs Activity page, in this game you have to serve many customers simultaneously coming to your restaurant, wanting to eat the delicious and nutritious recipes that you prepare.

Developed by Aurita this game was updated on December 3, 2014 and works with Sugar: 0.82 – 0.102. This game is very popular among Sugarlabs activities and has been downloaded 85,200 times so far.

If you want to become a super chef, try this exciting restaurant game. Here you may find many fascinating things about cooking and different levels give you fun and excitement. It feels like running your own restaurant and serve customers with different dishes.

What you need to do in Super Chef 2

You own a restaurant and you definitely want more and more customers to come. The customers will keep coming simultaneously and you need to take their order and provide them with food you cook by performing a certain steps.

Some glimpses of Super Chef 2

You can choose your avatar as a super chef.

You can take orders from the customers.

You can serve them with all the delicious and nutritious food you prepared.

Functions are very easy to handle for kids too.
(All Image credit: sugarlabs)

Support

Developer Rigoberto Sáenz Imbacuán is providing support for this activity. He can be contacted at rsaenzi@colombiagames.com.

UPDATE (October 29, 2018): The support mail is not working.

PS: Super Chef 2 is an engaging game. You may give it a try.