Welcome to monzo website!!

monzo is an excellent tool for learning foreign languages.
monzo can be used for learning French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese , English, etc.

Once you download, install and start monzo, a 'CONTENTS'　folder is created.
(The default location for the CONTENTS folder is C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\arsis\monzo)

What you do is to place lesson materials("mp3 files" and/or "pairs of mp3 files and text files") in the CONTENTS folder or its sub-folders.
That is all you need to do before you start using monzo.

An mp3 file and its corresponding text file must be of the same name(except for the extension)
For example if an mp3 file name is abc.mp3, the text file has to be named abc.txt.

OK.
Are the lesson materials in the CONTENTS or sub-folders?

Start monzo by clicking on 'monzo' in the Start menu, a desktop short-cut icon to monzo, or monzo.exe(in the folder where you've installed monzo).



You'll now see your lesson materials listed in the menu area.

Click any one of the lesson material file names, and the mp3 file will start playing and the corresponding text(if available) will be displayed in the text display area.

You can set monzo to play at any speed between 50% and 200% of the original speed by dragging the slider to the left or right. Press RST button(on the right of the slide-bar) to get back to the original speed.

Do you want to hide the text and just listen to the audio?
Click 'text' icon at the top-right corner.
The 'text' icon toggles between the display and non-display modes of the text.

You want to play your mp3 file infinitely?
Set the [repeat] value(shown above the [options] button) at '0'.

Divide audio/text files into clips.

At default settings, an mp3 file will be played from the beginning to the end.

But you can set monzo to play only a certain section(segment) of the file.

Try this:
Click and start any audio file, press [fm here] button, and several seconds later, press [to here] button and see what happens!
(If you do not see [fm here]/[to here] buttons, press "play options" button to show or hide them.)
The selected segment, ie between [fm here] time and [to here] time, is being played, repeatedly if [repeat] value is set at 0.

Take note of or memorize the [to here] time.
Now press the right arrow beside "step".
What's happened?
You will see the previous [to here] time has now become [fm here] time, and the new tentative [to here] time is set at 15(or x) seconds later if "step"(or shift) value is 15(or x).
If the tentative [to here] time is not good for you, you can change it manually as explained a few paragraphs below.

Any segment so selected can be saved as a clip for future re-use.
To save such a segment as a clip, select(or highlight) the portion of the text, in the text display area, corresponding to the audio segment, and press [Clip] button.
A Clip creation window will pop up with the clip name inserted.
In the space below, you will see the text for the audio clip automatically pasted for you.
Press Save button, and a clip, with its corresponding text, is created, saved and is automatically added to the list under Clipping tab.
Or if you like, before so saving, you can press Play button and make fine adjustments to [fm here]/[to here] times.

Both [fm here] time and [to here] time can be manually changed by clicking on the tiny up/down arrow.
The default focus is on the 'second' digit. If you want a finer adjustment, you'll have to click on the '1/10th second' digit(the rightmost digit).

You can create clips at any random intervals or consecutively from one segment to another.

[RST] button in the [fm here] section will set [fm here] time to 00:00:00.0(the very beginning of the audio file).
[RST] button in the [to here] section will reset the [to here] time to the very end of the audio file.

Clipping tab

Click on the Clipping tab and you will see a list of folders of lesson materials in the top section of the left side-bar.
Click on any of the folders and all the clips inside the selected folder will be listed in the lower section of the left side-bar.
Right-click on any of the folders, and a sub-menu will appear, from which you can choose to
play clips sequentially or in an random order,
play each clip repeatedly as many times as specified in "repeat",
play in a shadowing/dictation mode,
set an interval(or silence) between repetitions,
or if you have created new clips you can renumber all the clips in the order of [fm here] times.

PlayList tab

Click on the PlayList tab and then on the [create] button at the bottom, and you can pick any items in the Contents/Clipping folders and create a PlayList.
You can insert silence between items by pressing [ADD pause item]. Press this button once, a 1sec silence is inserted, press twice, two 1-sec silences are inserted.
You can re-arrange the items in any order you like. Select an item in the PlayList and press UP or DN button to move the item up or downwards in the list.

Voice Recording

You can record your voice by clicking on the tiny red disc for recording(wait till the disc starts blinking, signalling it is ready to record) and start talking into the microphone.
(Click on the microphone icon on the left of the red disc to enable or disable the microphone.)
Once the recording is done, click once again on the red disc to stop recording.

You can listen to the recording by clicking the tiny play button on the right side of the red disc.

Repeat after the reader

Pick a clip.
Press the red disc and, as soon as it starts blinking, press the main Play button, wait till the reader's reading is finished, then you read it loud into microphone. When you finish your reading, press the red disc to stop recording.
Press the tiny Play button and you will be able to listen to the reader's reading followed by your own reading!!
Compare your reading against the reader's reading.

Right click on the red disc to save your recording in .moz format.
moz files can be re-played as many times as you like at any time you like by double-clicking on the file.

Text Editor Area

monzo comes with the Text Editor Area.
You can type notes here or paste, in this area, any text which you have copied somewhere and is stored in the clip-board of the computer.
Or you can use this feature for transcribing off the recordings of dictation, lectures, speeches, meetings, conferences, panel discussions, etc.

options

Font sizes can be changed. Any changes in the font size will be reflected upon re-start of monzo.
Click the 'options' button and several other options are available.

If you are learning two or more foreign languages, you can throw the audio/text lesson materials into CONTENTS or its sub-folders as long as they are in mp3/txt format.
By clicking one file name after another, you can hop from the lesson of the French to the Chinese, to whatever other language(s) you are learning.

monzo as a Transcription Tool:

monzo can also be used as a Transcription Tool as mentioned above.
Give your dictation, recorded in mp3 format, to your secretary. She/he will copy or move the mp3 file to the CONTENTS folder and play back the file for typing in the text editor area of monzo.
The mp3 dictation file can be played back at a slower/faster speed(depending on her/his typing speed), and/or played back in chunks for effortless transcription.

monzo as a KARAOKE BOX

Place mp3 music files(and the lyrics in .txt format if available) in the CONTENTS folder and you are ready to enjoy your home-made KARAOKE music.
Suggestions: Create audio clips by dividing the audio file(music) into several segments(clips)(for example, one clip/line).


OS: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
Windows Media Player Ver.11 must be in your computer.

Pricing

Regular price:\2100.-/license
Academic price:\980.-/license
Payment:PayPal at http://arsis.co.jp/monzoBuy2.html

Free Trial:
Download monzo from:
http://monzo-cube.com/download/default.html
and you can use all the features of monzo for 30days for free.

Decide to purchase monzo only when you are satisfied because your payment, once made, is not refundable.



Any questions/inquiries should be addressed to:
info@monzo-cube.com