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Melissi Products - Black Box

The Melissi "Black Box" is based on several years of research into the needs of simultaneous interpretation students in many areas of Europe.

Black Box
is a stand-alone single-user program.

The program allows users to create and use interpreting exercises and complete courses (known as modules), and includes facilities for simultaneous, liason and consecutive interpretation with transcriptions of source and target speech. This is done with an intuitive drag & drop interface.

 

Exercises or entire modules can be packed into one file for ease of delivery.

The suite can make a "CD Image" ready to save to CD or DVD for sale or deployment.

It also includes a module for recording audio material from microphone, cassette or other sources to the computer hard disk.



Black Box Screen Image
Black Box Screen Image

Its main features are:

  • Simultaneous playback and recording using video or audio as source material

  • Timed scrolling "autocue" text for training in swift interpretation of textual sources

  • Mouse roll-over text display with several categories of notes defined by authors

  • Separate Internet links panel for connection to valuable online resources

  • Provision of example recordings for comparison with student work

  • Visual display of recording waveforms for feedback on voice modulation

  • Integrated text editor, with full Unicode support in all Windows® fonts, including right to left text entry.

  • Video can be scaled from very small to true full screen and automatically adjusts for widesceen

  • Optional compression of recordings

Overall the Melissi Black Box provides a completely integrated system that is very intuitive to use.


System requirements:

Black Box will perform well on computers with the following specifications:

  • Windows XP with DirectX 9.0c and Windows Media Player 9 (or above) installed
  • at least Pentium 700MHz processor (or equivalent); adequate hard disk space for recording
  • modern PC sound system or USB headset

  • a microphone headset; CD-ROM or DVD drive

  • screen resolution of at least 800x600 at least 16-bit colour depth

  • A restricted evaluation copy of the program can be downloaded without charge from the DOWNLOAD page, where you can also find details of costs for the UK, EU and the rest of the world.
  • When you order Black Box you will be sent a registration key to unlock all the facilities of the software.


Courseware
A small range of ready-made language courseware to accompany Black Box is under construction.

As the programme has an easy to use authoring system, we hope the Melissi user community using a private area on our web site will soon be co-operating and exchanging materials.

Why stop at language materials?

Demonstration Video Demonstration Video
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