JPH0627966B2 - Language education equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention relates to an audiovisual education device suitable for use in language education such as English.

[Conventional technology]

In recent years, video tape recorders (V
TR), video discs, personal computers, and other devices that actively incorporate so-called new media have been actively commercialized. Particularly in personal computers, the number of educational software is increasing considerably in all fields. However, since the system of the personal computer alone cannot handle the capacity limitation and natural sound, many of them are game-like ones that use a small number of illustration screens, characters, and sound effects. Therefore, in a device that requires a large amount of voice or video such as language learning, it is unavoidable to execute it in combination with some voice or video device.

Therefore, conventionally, for example, an apparatus combining a personal computer and a cassette tape recorder, an apparatus combining a personal computer and a video disk, etc. have been proposed as an educational apparatus for languages such as English.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The former device, which uses a cassette tape recorder, has the disadvantage that access time is long and the necessary information is not immediately available, while the latter device, which uses a video disc, is expensive and video is not so necessary and wasteful. There are many.

The present invention proposes an audiovisual education device which has a short access time, can be inexpensively constructed, and is suitable for learning long sentences.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention is an optical disc player for reproducing auditory data.
(1), a display device (3), and a home computer (2) for controlling them, and an optical disc player (1)
During playback of auditory data, the means to put the optical disc player (1) in the pause state by operating the keys of the home computer (2), and the address data of the optical disc and the auditory data of the optical disc in which the pause state is set are recorded. Means for comparing the address data of the start position of the division of the optical disc player and the optical disc player based on the comparison result (1)
And a means for setting the optical pickup of (1) as a set start position.

[Action]

In the above structure, since the optical disk player (1) is used for reproducing auditory data, the access time is short and the structure can be inexpensive. Further, the address data of the optical disc in which the pause state is set and the address data of the start positions of the plurality of sections of the auditory data of the optical disc are compared, and the optical pickup of the optical disc player (1) is set based on the result. The start position can be set to a different starting position, and for example, it becomes possible to easily repeatedly reproduce the section of the auditory data at the position where the pause state is set.

〔Example〕

 First, the structure of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The present invention comprises an optical disc player (1), a home computer (2) and a display device (3). When the auditory data is reproduced by the optical disc player (1) of the optical disc on which the auditory data and the address data are recorded, the optical disc player (1) is in the paused state by operating a predetermined key of the key device of the home computer (2). It is said that Also, the address data of the optical disc is sent from the optical disc player (1) to the home computer (2).
The address data of the optical disc which has been supplied to the home computer (2) and whose pause state has been set is stored in the storage unit of the home computer (2). Further, the recording / reproducing apparatus of the home computer (2) has previously recorded the address data of the start positions of the plurality of sections of the auditory data of the optical disc, and the address data from the recording / reproducing apparatus is preliminarily recorded in the home computer ( It is stored in the storage unit of 2). Then, by operating the keys of the home computer (2), the address data of the optical disc in which the pause state has been set is compared with the address data of the start positions of the plurality of sections, and the optical pickup uses the optical disc based on the comparison result. Is set to the set start position of.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. This example is an example applied to a language, for example, an English education device.

In the figure, (2) indicates a home computer, and CP
It is composed of a U (4), a RAM (5), a ROM (6), an input / output port (7), an expansion card (8), a key device (9), a floppy disk (10) and the like. The floppy disk (10) has a program for the whole operation, display data such as English text to be displayed on the screen of the display device (3), and address data indicating the position of the audio data on the optical disk corresponding to the English text. Is recorded in advance.

Further, in FIG. 2, (1) is an optical disc player for reproducing an optical disc in which the audio data and address data corresponding to the English sentence are digitized and recorded. This optical disc player (1) is connected to an expansion card (8) via a controller (20). The controller (20) is for interfacing the expansion card (8) with the input terminal of the optical disc player (1).

Here, the above-mentioned audio data and address data are recorded in the spiral recording track on the optical disc reproduced by the optical disc player (1).

The format of the recorded digital signal is, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, continuous in units of frames having a repetition frequency of 7.35 kHz and a repetition period of 136.1 μsec. For convenience of illustration, the frames are arranged vertically. Each frame is composed of a synchronization information A portion (11) of a frame period, a subcode portion (12), and a data portion (13) containing audio data. In the sub-code part (12), address information and the like, which is composed of 98 frames and therefore has a repetition frequency of 75 Hz and a repetition cycle of 13.3 msec, is inserted. That is, the sub-code part (12) is divided into 8 channels from channel P to channel W, and the sub-coat part (12) of the first and second frames of each block has a block period from channel P to channel W. The sync information B and C are inserted, and the remaining 96 frames of the sub-coat section (12)
Address data is inserted into the channel Q of each block in units of the voice data of the data section (13).

FIG. 4 shows an example of the format of this channel Q. In addition to the synchronization information B and C, the channel Q has
Track number T (14), index I
3 has a portion (15) indicating the time, and a portion (16), (17) of time address data indicating the minutes and seconds from the beginning of each section in one voice data. As shown in the drawing, these bits are inserted in each frame of one block in a distributed manner of 1 bit.

The format of the digital signal recorded on the optical disc is as described above, and when the optical disc is played back by the optical disc player (1), the above-mentioned Q channel data is transferred to the controller (20), expansion card (8), It is sequentially supplied as voice address data to the CPU (4) of the home computer (2) via the input / output port (7).

Further, in FIG. 2, (3) is a display device, and by the control of the home computer (2), the display of the above-mentioned English sentence and the operation procedure of the user are displayed on the screen.

In order to realize the above configuration, the applicant used the following as a home computer (2), an optical disc player (1), and a display device (3).

(a) Home computer (2) SMC-777 (Sony) -CPU Z80A-RAM 64KB main video 38KB-Color palette SMI-733 expansion card SMI-740 Floppy disk Built-in one drive ・ Floppy disk ・ 3.5 inches ・ 280K bytes Kanji kana-maji About 100,000 characters English manuscripts about 200,000 characters Graphic screen about 20 screens (b) Optical disc player (1) CDP-111 (Sony・ File size ・ ・ ・ Maximum 74 minutes ・ Addressing ‥‥ Tr.1 ~ 99, Index 0 ~ 99 Total 9900 address ・ Item time length ‥ 2sec ~ 70min variable ・ Voice channel ・ ・ ・ 2 channel F special 〜5Hz〜 20kHz Dynamic range 90dB (c) Display device (3) KX-13 CDI (manufactured by Sony) ・ With RGB input In this example, the home computer (2) has a flow rate. When floppy disk (10) is loaded, the operating program for the entire than this is reproduced, is loaded into RAM (5), below CPU
By the control of (4), the operation is performed according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, as shown in FIG. 6A, a menu screen is displayed on the display device (3), and one long sentence theme is selected.

Next, by pressing the key of the key device (9) corresponding to the predetermined theme n, English sentences, Japanese translation sentences, commentary sentences, word display data, and English sentences related to the Nn sentences corresponding to this theme n are pressed. Address data indicating the position of the audio data on the optical disk corresponding to is loaded into the RAM (5) from the floppy disk (10).

Here, as shown in FIG. 7, the floppy disk (10) has a track number, an index, and a track number on the floppy disk (10) corresponding to each of the themes 1, 2 ...
The number of sentences is written. For example, when the theme n is selected, the RAM is read from the floppy disk (10) as shown in FIG. 8 based on the track number Tn of the theme n, the index In, and the number Nn of sentences. In (5), data regarding Nn sentences corresponding to theme n is loaded.

While data is being loaded from the floppy disk (10) to the RAM (5), the display device (3) has a sixth
The selected theme is displayed as shown in FIG. This image is an example of theme 2 being selected.

Next, when the necessary data is loaded from the floppy disk (10) to the RAM (5), the display device (3)
An operation procedure screen as shown in FIG. 6C is displayed.

Next, press the start key "SPASE" on the key device (9),
The optical disc player (1) is controlled by the CPU (4) based on the address data (track number T, index I) on the optical disc of the data loaded in the RAM (5) described above, and the optical pickup is optically The audio data corresponding to the English sentence of theme n is set at the recording position of the audio data of the English sentence of theme n of the disc, and the hearing learning state is set.

In this state, if the stop key (any key) of the key device (9) is not pressed, the sounds corresponding to Nn English sentences contained in theme n are sequentially played, and when all are finished, the display device (3) An end screen as shown in FIG. 6F is displayed on the screen, and a predetermined state is selected by pressing the key corresponding to the key device (9).

On the other hand, when the stop key (some key) of the key device is pressed while the voice corresponding to the English sentence of theme n is being reproduced, first, the optical disc player
The current time Tc of the optical disk is detected from the Q channel data supplied to the CPU (4) from (1), and then the CP
Under control of U (4), the optical disc player (1) is in a paused state, and the next detected current time Tc is T _i−1 , n <
By comparing and confirming that Tc <Ti, n, it was detected that the stop key was pressed in the middle position of the i-th sentence, and then the display device (3) was selected as shown in FIG. 6D. Is displayed. Then, by pressing the corresponding key of the key device (9), various operations are selected.

For example, when the "1" key is pressed, the optical disc player (1) is controlled by the CPU (4) based on the time T _i-1 , n, and the optical pickup is the i-th English sentence of the optical disc theme n. Is set to the start position of the voice data of the above, the voice from time T _i−1 , n to Ti, n on the optical disc, that is, the voice of the i-th English sentence is reproduced, and then the pause state is resumed. This is repeated each time the "1" key is pressed.

When the "2" key is pressed, as shown in FIG. 6E,
The i-th English sentence is displayed on the screen of the display device (3). When the "4" and "5" keys are pressed, the word, commentary and Japanese sentence of the i-th English sentence are displayed on the screen of the display device (3). If you press the "6" and "7" keys, the stop key is pressed in the English sentence before and after the i-th English sentence, and the voice of that sentence is played. It

In addition, by pressing the "return" key, the stopped reproduction of the sound of the theme n is restarted.

As described above, according to this example, since the optical disk player (1) is used for reproducing audio data, the access time is short, and the cost can be reduced as compared with that using the video disk.

Further, according to this example, when the optical disc player (1) reproduces the sound of the theme n (during hearing learning), the optical disc player (1) is put into a pause state by pressing the stop key, for example, at a place where it is difficult to understand. Then, it is detected that the stop key is pressed in the middle of the i-th English sentence, and the voice of this i-th English sentence can be repeatedly reproduced by key operation, or the sentence, word, commentary, etc. of this i-th English sentence can be reproduced. Can be selectively displayed, which is suitable for learning long sentences.

Although the above-described embodiment is applied to an English educational device, it can be similarly applied to other language educational devices.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention described above, since the optical disk player is used for reproducing the auditory data, the access time is short and the cost can be reduced. In addition, the address data of the optical disc in which the pause state is set and the address data of the start positions of the plurality of sections of the auditory data of the optical disc are compared, and based on the result, the optical pickup of the optical disc player is set to the set start position. Thus, for example, it becomes possible to easily repeatedly reproduce the section of the auditory data at the position where the pause state is set. Therefore, for example, it is suitable for use in hearing learning of long sentence English composed of a plurality of sentences.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 3 to 8 are diagrams for explaining the respective configurations. (1) is an optical disk player, (2) is a home computer, (3) is a display device, (4) is a CPU, and (10) is a floppy disk.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A home having an optical disc on which auditory data arranged in a plurality of sections and address data indicating the position of the auditory data are recorded, an optical disc player for reproducing the optical disc, and a recording / reproducing apparatus. A language teaching device comprising a computer and a display device for displaying the content of a theme for language learning reproduced by the recording / reproducing device, wherein one long theme from among a plurality of long sentence themes for language learning is selected. First selecting means for selecting, content of a language to be learned about a long sentence theme selected by the first selecting means, and address data of the optical disc indicating a start position of the auditory data corresponding to the content. Means for storing the optical disc in the storage unit of the home computer, and the optical disc player by the optical disc player. Means for placing the optical disc player in a pause state by a key operation of the home computer during reproduction of the auditory data recorded in, and address data of the paused position of the optical disc in the storage section of the home computer. And means for comparing the address data of the position in the paused state with the address data indicating the start position of the section including the position in the paused state, and the home computer after the state of the paused state. Key operation is performed, based on the comparison result, the optical disc player reproduces the auditory data from the start position of the section including the position of the paused state, or the display device displays the paused state of the paused state. Corresponds to the start position of the above section that includes the position Language training apparatus comprising a second selection means for selecting whether to display the contents that should be learned language corresponding to one long sentence themes that are above selected from location, the. 2. The language education device according to claim 1, wherein the content of the language to be learned is a sentence, a translated sentence corresponding to the sentence, a commentary sentence corresponding to the sentence, and the sentence. A language teaching device, characterized in that it includes any one of display data of included words.