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FreeGong web voice system for FL Instruction

 
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InTime



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Posts: 1676
Location: CHINA-at-large
PostPosted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:43 pm    Post subject: FreeGong web voice system for FL Instruction Reply with quote
Spread the word freely...
Comments/feedback from folks?

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Dear CALICO members,

We have just released our Gong web voice system free and unrestricted at http://gong.ust.hk/ . It was developed primarily for language
instruction. Please see below for information about what it can do.

Thanks a lot!

Dr David Rossiter and Gibson Lam
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Gong - a voice for the web world - free!

The Gong web voice system has been released as a free project. It is now also freely available as an integrated module for the Moodle LMS system.

Features of Gong

- Basic 'voice board' operation
- Messages can use any language for text/ voice
- Powerful text and voice editors
- User can speed up/ slow down voice playback
- Voice indexing - users can selectively play back a single word/ several
words (English words only)

- Integrates with the Moodle system
- Applet version/ Application version/ 'MiniGong' compact version
- Can operate completely in English/ Simplified Chinese/ Traditional Chinese/
Japanese
- Scripting API available for programmers

- Real time voice/ text chat which is recorded, if desired
- 'Instant' messaging
- Advanced message search
- Supports Chinese Cantonese Yale
- Supports Chinese Mandarin PinYin

You are welcome to visit our web site to learn more and to download Gong:

http://gong.ust.hk/
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visviva



Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Posts: 1
Location: Busan, South Korea
PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:07 pm    Post subject: argh! Reply with quote
Well, Gong looks like a great application. Clearly an enormous amoung of work has gone into it, and we all owe the folks at HK UST a big debt of thanks. The demonstration on http://gong.ust.hk works beautifully. Just the kind of web application that the language-teaching world has been waiting for.

That said, I'm having nothing but grief getting it set up. I've never worked with the Tomcat server or the JDK before, and I certainly hope that I never have to do so again.

For starters, I had to install the JDK and Tomcat and get Tomcat to play nice with Apache (apparently cats and Indians really dislike each other). This took a couple of days. After that, I had to tweak Gong's "startup.sh" code to make it run properly on Debian Linux.

Once that was done, I was able to get Gong running. Excitedly, I created a board and posted a message. Huzzah! Then I logged out and logged back in again. Only to be greeted by:

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The system has failed to retrieve the board list. Gong will close now. Please try again later.


The Gong server logs the event as follows:

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[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
Failed to get the system board list (Content is not allowed in prolog)


That's as far as I've gotten. If I return the "data" directory to its original condition (erasing the board I created) and restart the server, I can start over again. But if I try to create a new board, I'm back where I started.

I can't get Gong to work at all as an applet -- it hangs immediately after login. If I try the Moodle module, I get PHP socket errors. Gong seems to be listening only on port 8000 and not port 8001. Why is this? I have no idea.

(Apologies for whining here, but the Gong website does not have its own forum.)
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Joined: 21 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:14 am    Post subject: Re: argh! Reply with quote
Hi there,

visviva wrote:
Once that was done, I was able to get Gong running. Excitedly, I created a board and posted a message. Huzzah! Then I logged out and logged back in again. Only to be greeted by:

Quote:
The system has failed to retrieve the board list. Gong will close now. Please try again later.


The Gong server logs the event as follows:

Quote:
[Fatal Error] :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.
Failed to get the system board list (Content is not allowed in prolog)



We have investigated this problem and found out that there is a program bug in the Linux version of Java. This bug causes file corruption which results in the error you have got in the log.

We have included the fix in the latest version. You can download it through our website.

visviva wrote:
I can't get Gong to work at all as an applet -- it hangs immediately after login. If I try the Moodle module, I get PHP socket errors.


The Php socket error is because your php does not have the socket library. You can enable the socket library by including it as an extension in the php.ini.

visviva wrote:
Gong seems to be listening only on port 8000 and not port 8001. Why is this? I have no idea.


The Gong server does not listen to port 8001 because you need to setup the Auth.AccessList in the gongServer.ini first. This parameter should contain the hostnames of external system such as Moodle. For example, if I have a Moodle running in gong.ust.hk, I would have to set the following line in gongServer.ini:

Auth.AccessList=gong.ust.hk

By doing that the Gong server will listen at port 8001 after starting up.

Gibson from the Gong Project
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Will.



Joined: 02 May 2003
Posts: 783
Location: London Uk
PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
WOW!
It looks really impreive

BUT

I need a translator just to understand all the programme vocab in the OP!!!!!!!!!

One day I hope to be able to do what Visviva did

until then...


I shall work hard trying to understand what it was Viviva did

Any chance of a descriptoin in layman, woman or person's form?
WOTTIZIT?
Is it anything like Viavoice? What can we use it for?
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