VOICE CONTROLLED EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION

Nowadays communities are continuously evolving and changing socially, economically and culturally. Technology is certainly at the top of causative agent of development and change. The opportunities offered by technology especially in education accelerating this development. In recent years rapidly progress of training technology has led to use computers in education. It's a fact that audio-visual support provided by computers is efficient in pre-school children's education. But in pre-school period children don't know how to read and write and haven't completed their small muscle development, this fact limits the use of computers in the process. However, speech recognition technologies which is one of the opportunities offered by technology, is the solution to overcome this limitations. Speech recognition technologies are the systems, that developed for the recognition of sounds by computers are perceived by the devices like microphone. In this study with the facilities of speech recognition technology, supporting individual learning in pre-school education has been aimed. For this reason an educational software in which this technologies of speech recognition are integrated for the usage of preschool education has been prepared. The most distinctive characteristic of this software is to be able to used with completely sounds. Thus, this software can be used easily by the children who can not to use their hands and arms.