Can Olan be used for Judging?
Not quite yet, but check out Tools->Judge’s Screen. It shows you one figure at a time, lets you select score with the mouse wheel, and most importantly it reads out the figure elements and names in plain English! It could eventually replace an assistance and a recorder and make contest running both easier, and faster, while showing true, realtime scoring on a big screen (combined from all judges). Good enlgish speakout requires windows XP with voice assist installed, with a good 3rd party voice installed (like AT&T Natural Voice, availabe on the internet). Judges first have to be familiar with the software, then the sequences will need to be submitted electronically, some collection/display scoring system needs to be written, and finally the rule-book has to be changed… Comments on this experimental item are very welcome.
