This is my introduction talk to my spoken language learning platform, called Immersion.

1. IMMERSION
@admc

2. ME: GITHUB.COM/ADMC
• OSAF 2007, released Windmill Project
• Slide 2008, released WatiN, FlexPilot
• Mozilla 2009, released MozMill
• Sauce Labs 2010 - 2012
• Se Builder, FlexPilot
• Jellyfish, WD

3. HUH?
• QR tweets for your convenience
• JS.EU made me do it
• Interesting new challenges
• ~ Two years of linguistics geekery
• Exploring outside of dev tools

4. LINGUALITY
• Brain health: (alzheimer’s / dementia - http://goo.gl/tEHDo)
• Makes you smarter: (http://goo.gl/KzVQo - NY Times)
• Understand your own language
• Fun hobby, interesting social dynamics
• Hotness? British dating services...
• From a survey conducted in Britain involving 270 dating agencies, the result shows that people who speak or
learn a foreign language are more attractive, intelligent and sexier to the opposite sex.
"bilingual is one way to keep your brain active—it's part of the cognitive-reserve approach to brain fitness"
- http://goo.gl/tEHDo (National Geographic)

5. BREAKDOWN
• Reading, Writing, Speaking, Comprehension
• I wanted practical language
• Comprehension is about repetition
• Computers are great at repetition

6. THE PROJECT
• Web app, browser extensions, mobile app
• Find/watch multi language media
• Quickly flag new vocabulary
• Learn that vocabulary over time
• Track progress
• Collaboration

7. TECHNOLOGY
• All the OSS Node.JS, Express.JS, Socket.IO, Passport.JS, WD.JS, jQuery, FF & Chrome extensions
Bootstrap, Nano, Video.JS, Audio.JS, CouchDB, CMU Sphinx - zomg.
• All the services Nodejitsu, Transloadit, Iris Couch, Amazon S3, Google Translate, Sauce Labs
• Gobs of Javascript :)
• See what happens.

8. DEMO

9. CHALLENGES
• Life workflow integration
• Sensible mobile experience
• Getting involved, contributions
• Hosted service maintenance

10. NEXT
• Realtime visuals (wav)http://www.html5multimedia.com/code/ch11/moz-audio-api-waveform.html
• Collaborative replication eco-system (CouchDB)
• Community for acoustic & phonetic models
• Node integrated CMU Sphinx
• Senone analysis - grammer examples

11. SIDE EFFECTS
• Better understanding of JS ecosystem
• Building fun Node modules
• Eating my own dogfood
• Learned about linguistics, woah.
• Participate in @LXJS

12. THE LINKS
•http://www.lifeorganizers.com/cm_articles/107_7_reasons_to_learn_a_foreign_language_402.html
•http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0
•http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/100218-bilingual-brains-alzheimers-dementia-science-aging/
•http://expressjs.com
•http://transloadit.com/
•http://saucelabs.com/
•http://translate.google.com/
•http://nodejitsu.com/
•http://couchdb.apache.org/
•http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
•http://videojs.com
•http://kolber.github.com/audiojs/ http://github.com/admc/wild
•https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client
•http://passportjs.org
•http://jquery.com/
•http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
•http://www.iriscouch.com/

13. Q&A @admc
@LXJS FTW.