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Re:A man, a mop, a year, and an app by andygcook on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @11:01AM (#3400158)
This actually seems like a much bigger market than just autistic children. I would imagine that many parents that have iPad-crazed kids would would gladly give their kids an app to learn new words instead of Angry Birds. A child would probably be more interested and learn faster if it was Mom's voice talking instead of a robot.

Another interesting case that comes to mind is how Clay Christiansen, author of Innovator's Dilemma, used Rosetta Stone to practice speaking again after having a stroke.

I would imagine too that you could scale pretty quickly by allowing users to create Flashcard sets, and then other users can buy the flash card sets and rate them. This could turn into a crowdsourced Rosetta Stone pretty quickly.

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Re:A man, a mop, a year, and an app by bdunn on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @11:44AM (#3400337)
The iPad 2's onboard camera and microphone make it perfect for personalized flashcards. Aeir Talk, while built for special-needs kids, could be used as a flashcard app for any child.

My 3 year old uses it and loves it. Instead of simple clip art of a cat and a robotic reading of the word, we're able to take a picture of our cat Tobi accompanied with mom's voice.

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Re:A man, a mop, a year, and an app by manderplex on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @01:07PM (#3400672)
Crowded sourced content for this app would be great, especially in other languages. Rosetta Stone only covers a small sliver of the world's spoken languages.
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