The Babbleback Machine
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The babbleback machine is a program that continuously records sound from your PC's microphone and continuously plays that sound back after a delay. It is a fun, educational game for children as young as 6 months old.

This program is inspired by author Win Wenger's article at http://www.winwenger.com/part27.htm. It can be used "to give your child not only a far better gift of articulateness for life, but a far better grasp for life of verbal meanings and intelligence." Your child will be fascinated to hear back the sounds he/she makes. This fascination will encourage more sounds and result in more learning. Win describes how powerful feedback-directly-from-output can be for learning in his article http://www.winwenger.com/feed1.htm.

I wrote this game for my two-year-old daughter. The first time I turned it on, it took about a minute or two for her to understand what was going on. She spent the next hour-and-a-half laughing, squealing, talking, and babbling. She still wanted more and asked for the game on an almost daily basis for the next month.

Feel free to post any comments, questions, or problems at Babbleback discussion.


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Brian Theado