Localization of Klango Player - accessible community and multimedia center

Requested amount from Knight News Challenge: 
$0
Total cost of project including all sources of funding: 
$180,000
Expected amount of time to complete project: 
1 year

Klango Player is free accessible community and multimedia center for blind and vision impaired computer users.

Our goal is to make the Klango Player available in the languages of the world. Do you speak any of those languages? Afrikaans, Bosnian, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.

Join Us and learn more at http://klango.net

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How will your project improve the way news and information are delivered to geographic communities?

Play. Share. Learn. with Klango Player

Klango Player is free accessible community and mutlimedia center

Klango.net community members share their experience in their local communities and amongst users around the world.

Play and have Fun

Klango community mission is to make using of a computer an exceptionally pleasant and entertaining experience for all people. Games and having fun on a computer is the very first step into the world of real computing and serious work. By playing audio games blind and vision impaired children and teenagers develop their spatial intelligence, planning skills, co-ordination and memory.

Share Your Experience

Klango Player opens up computers to the creativity and engagement of all people who want to listen to the world. Use forums to exchange your opinion with other users. Write about your feelings in your own microblog and share your favourite radio stations and podcasts in the klango.net catalogue.

Explore and Learn

Teachers and students say that Klango Player makes work with accessible software as pleasant as it never was before. Using Klango Math Tools parents and kids can do homework, calculations and draw audio graphs of functions. Students explore Open Multimedia Catalogue and listen to audio books with literature, poetry, drama and lectures

Learn more about this innovative program for blind and vision impaired citizens at http://klango.net

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How is your idea innovative? (New or different from what already exists.)

Have fun and enjoy your time with Klango Player

The first accessible application which brings so much fun and is created from the very beginning for blind and vision impaired computer users.

We first created unique Klango Audio Interface and then added video layer.

We listen carefully to opinions of Klango Player users.

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What experience do you or your organization have to successfully develop this project?

klango player is working and now it is time for translation

English beta version of Klango Player appeared on June 27, 2008:

Below you could read, the very first opinions gathered during the ongoing beta tests:

  • I just wanted to say that I'm having tons of fun with this program. You guys have done a great job so far.

  • Total Agree to liam's statement. Yesterday I've downloaded the application and now I sit here and can't get enough of it. I also have some suggestions for further program versions, but there's no forum area to post it. But one thing is totally clear to me: Klango Player is simply the best peace of VIP Software I'd seen over several years.

  • Just wanted to say I'm loving the program so far. Great job, it looks like another great addition to the blind community. Keep up the good work.

  • I love Klango. *smile* keep up the good work.

  • hi, on downloading klango i've really experienced a whole new way of interacting. this is great! why can't people just sign up and enjoy the experience that i'm having.

  • Hello, my name is Dominique, I have to say, that this program is absolutely fantastic! I can see this program expanding into something big into the near future. I have been using ths player for a few hours, and Ihave not incountered any errorsyet; keep up the good work! *smiles*

  • Hi. Just a quick note that wouldn't take too much of your time to say that your work and effort are greatly appreciated. Have a good time and thanks again! hello, I would like to take the time to thank you!! for a player that is totally accessible and or the blind. I love it! a lot and how it also incorperates social networking in to it as well as playing music. quick question,

  • it doesn't work with flash on an internet streeme or does it. once again, thanks much! and keep up the good work on the program.

  • Hey there! I love this program. Keep up the good work on this great program.

  • Hi. Thanks for making such a cool program. From what little I've explored of it, It's awsome. Keep up the good work. I'm deffinatly going to tell my friends about this. I hope they like it as much as I do. Thanks again.

  • Sspeaking of dancing, thanks for doing the Klango dance, lol... You make our day by just being a part of it! Never know what you'll find here...

  • I just started using this software and I'm enjoying it quite ementsly.

  • Hi, ich bin Kevin und auch aus old germany! du hjast recht, wir müssen das allen klar machen und es ist ja auch ein klasse Projekt. und vor allem ... um sonst!!

  • einfach nur Klasse!

  • Sziaszto. Nagyon jó ez a program, nekem tetszik. és az is jó, hogy van magyar fórum.!

  • Swietnie, swietnie, to mi sie podoba! Pokazaliscie klase!

Learn more at http://klango.net

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We have been involved in development of audio games for the blind and vision impaired children for almost 4 years.

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