The workshop was held on Saturday 15th here at DWU, Madang. Mr. Totona sent an open invitation to other staff to join us for an interesting session on the software that SIL use to create simple dictionaries for local languages. Mr. Ray Stiegemen was the facilitator of the workshop.
 |
| l-r: Mr. Matbob, Mr. Mahap, Mr. Totona, Mr. Stiegemen, Dr. Sai, Ms. Barnabas |
We were glad to have other staff from the CA, PGIR, and Physiotherapy join us. From the Team, only myself and Mr. Totona were there to be part of the workshop.
The one day workshop introduced the software WeSay and its basic functionality in adding, editing words, definitions and all the other language semantics. Apart from that we were glad to learn that you can add images and sounds to the dictionary for pronunciation and example sentences.
All who attended were glad to be part of an enriching experience in the use of software to record our local languages.
The software is called WeSay ver.1.4. For installation you also need to install Prince ver.9.0 platform and the ArtOfReading3FreeSetup which is a free tool.
 |
| Here is a screenshot of the WeSay application window. A great tool indeed. |
For ease of download, I have added both the WeSay and ArtofReading to my blog library on Google Drive which you can download here...
- WeSay ver1.4 (21MB)
- ArtOfReading3 (will add later, 297MB)
- Princever9.0 (10MB)
Visit this sites for more information on the software