Speak - usability issues

[Jose Icaza]

1 The activity in Spanish is named "Hablar con Sara" -that's what appears on the icon and means Speak with Sara. Sara is a female name. However the Robot's name is Alice (just ask *him* ...), and he has a male voice... It would be nice if all this is consistent...

2 When the Chat activity is started, it reminds you that you should share the activity with whoever you want to chat with. The chat tab on Speak however, doesn't. For consistency it should.

3 Children know all about Robots as mechanical creatures, but have no notions about "bots". So when I press the robot tab...
Expectation: A two-legged robot will show up on the screen!
Reality: Not so...
However... I don't have a better suggestion unless multi-word tab names are used (change voice, change face, chat with Alice, chat with friend)

4 When the language of the user interface is changed from English to Spanish, Alice reads Spanish questions in English phonetics, until one notices that and changes Alice's language

[gregorio]

Hi Jose,

You may get some help by e-mailing the OLPC_Sur list:  http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur

Maybe you already have, I haven't read the list much lately. Just a suggestion as I believe they use this activity a lot in Uruguay.

Thanks,

Greg S

[alsroot]

Replying to Jose Icaza:

1 The activity in Spanish is named "Hablar con Sara" -that's what appears on the icon and means Speak with Sara. Sara is a female name. However the Robot's name is Alice (just ask *him* ...), and he has a male voice... It would be nice if all this is consistent...

well, ALICE and Sara are not random names
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Linguistic_Internet_Computer_Entity
 http://www.alicebot.org/downloads/sets.html
unfortunately we don't have female voices

2 When the Chat activity is started, it reminds you that you should share the activity with whoever you want to chat with. The chat tab on Speak however, doesn't. For consistency it should.

Good catch, will be implemented in v12

3 Children know all about Robots as mechanical creatures, but have no notions about "bots". So when I press the robot tab...
Expectation: A two-legged robot will show up on the screen!
Reality: Not so...
However... I don't have a better suggestion unless multi-word tab names are used (change voice, change face, chat with Alice, chat with friend)

For a while(in new UI, in v12), there is icon instead of tab name with caption "Ask robot any question" and robot says "Ask me any question" for first time. And better suggestions are welcome.

4 When the language of the user interface is changed from English to Spanish, Alice reads Spanish questions in English phonetics, until one notices that and changes Alice's language

it could be fixed by adding spanish translation

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To keep consistency, better to create ticket per bug/feature,
I'm closing this ticket as a notbug, please create new tickets if mentioned points need to be implemented in other way.

[sascha_silbe]

Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS