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Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality

Tony Karrer

As you know, Text-to-Speech is something that's very interesting to me and Joel knows a lot about it as CEO of Tuval Software Industries maker of Speech-Over Professional. This software adds text-to-speech voice narration to PowerPoint presentations and is used for training and eLearning at major corporations.

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Words pronounced incorrectly in text-to-speech

Adobe Captivate

I am creating a module on professional resume tips; and the speech output pronounces “resume” the correct way in this context (res-u-may) and the traditional way (re-soom). In other words, it uses both pronunciations in text-to-speech. I even tried adding the asterisk (‘) at the end with no success.

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Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/16/2011 Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them.

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What makes a great eLearning module?

Adobe Captivate

When we decide to create an eLearning module for students or adult learners we need to ensure that the content is engaging and will keep the learner’s attention. By that I mean you need to use images, audio, video and interactions to keep the learner engaged and wanting to finish the module. What makes a great eLearning module?

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The gradebook module

eFront

The gradebook module uses a formula to convert scores for activities to an aggregated lesson score at a range from 1 and 100 - and subsequently to a grade (e.g, After installing the module we have to decide on how scores will be translated to grades. As a professor now we have to activate the gradebook module for lessons.

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5 Tips To Build In Storyline Like A Pro

Roundtable Learning

Media and Simulations — Tools such as screen recording and text-to-speech closed captions make course development more convenient. The alternative that is most similar in terms of capabilities is Adobe Captivate. Level One — One 15 minute module that takes approximately 2-4 weeks to complete once started.

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Extensions on RSS module

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 8/02/2010 Extensions on RSS module eFront had for some time now an RSS module that could fetch and present an RSS feed inside a lesson or on administrators panel. Well, things have changed.

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