From the Coleface

OCTOBER 15, 2012

At last week’s eLearning Network conference I led a practical instructional design session on audio and e-learning. Consider non-voiceover audio where appropriate e.g. music. Here’s a lightly edited summary of the groups top ten tips on using audio. Be clear about how you think audio will enhance the learners’ experience.

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Mike Taylor

JULY 1, 2022

Try Vocally for AI-powered text-to-speech voiceovers. DevLearn (October 24-28) – I’m doing two pre-conference workshops this year! The L&D Hypocratic Oath, and a Higher Standard with Cara North on The iDeas Podcast. 40 Speaking Lessons from 400 Episodes on The Speaker Lab podcast. How was this week’s newsletter? Help me improve.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 2, 2015

Conference Pass includes: All Standard and “You Build It” (Hands-On) sessions. 10 Best Practices for Writing Voiceover Scripts for eLearning. Here’s what some of the attendees had to say about last year’s event: “I love that this conference is so applicable to what we do every day. Learn More.

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Trivantis

JUNE 30, 2016

The 2016 Lectora® User Conference brought together Lectora users from around the world—including Sweden! Both text and voiceover were provided because more senses in use equals better learning. Thanks to Fredrik Christiansson and Major Tony Gustafsson for sharing this engaging training example with Lectora User Conference attendees!

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STRIVR

JANUARY 15, 2020

I probe for real-world scenarios that help us better train an organization’s learners, and this work often takes place on a factory floor or in a retail environment, as opposed to in a conference or training room. That ensures that all voiceover, assessment questions, and feedback are expertly designed for optimal learning.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 9, 2012

If you register early, you pay  only  $495 for the entire conference. Join her online and learn about  Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts  and  eLearning: Writing Step-by-Step Scripts and Training Documents. Only three participants in the rally were arrested (correct).

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STRIVR

JANUARY 15, 2020

I probe for real-world scenarios that help us better train an organization’s learners, and this work often takes place on a factory floor or in a retail environment, as opposed to in a conference or training room. That ensures that all voiceover, assessment questions and feedback are expertly designed for optimal learning.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 29, 2019

A significant amount of my career has involved speaking at different locations, either for employers or at conferences. Hotspot in case the conference has limited wifi. If you need to also record voiceover for courses while traveling, you may want to carry the equipment discussed in this video: Supplies for Activities and Room Setup.

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eLearning Architect

MAY 4, 2016

Let’s take a look at these, starting with those that require the shortest amount of time to develop: 1) Record training and demonstrations currently being delivered via WebEx Nearly all modern day web conference services have the built-in functionality to record each session. In fact, some LMS even have web conference functionality built in.

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IT Training Department Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Nothing can replace a good conference or a big sales training event where everyone gets together. The fact that various online learning solutions allow employees to access workplace training anytime and anywhere without the constraints of conference rooms, physical boundaries, or nearly any other limitation is pretty impressive.

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Hurix Digital

OCTOBER 11, 2023

All you have to do is create a slide deck on Google Slides, Keynote, or PowerPoint, screen record yourself as you navigate it, and add voiceover. The recorded conference can also be made available to your students as additional or regular content. Then, you can take a live audience recording of your webinar.

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Trivantis

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Every 2017 Lectora® User Conference registration purchase comes with free Lectora Fundamentals On-demand Video Training. Desktop microphone for voiceovers and more ($99). Registration to the 2017 Lectora User Conference ($795). The 2017 Lectora User Conference runs May 3 – 4, 2017. Free training?! That’s right.

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Web Courseworks

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Voiceover for vision disability accessibility: We recorded voiceover content to help explain complex conceptual issues and maintained transcripts of the audio to include on every related page in each course. 3) Provide a Transcript for Voiceover Audio. Take the time to test your color combinations early in the design process. (3)

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

JUNE 27, 2022

Last week, TLDC hosted another stellar event—the Accessible and Inclusive Design Conference (AIDC). The conference focused on helping L&D professionals understand how to be more inclusive by designing for accessibility. Here are some other tidbits from the conference, in no particular order. Updated: July 6, 2022.

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TechSmith Camtasia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If I walked into a conference full of physics PhDs, who were doing presentations about physics, I might think, oh god, these explanations are terrible. However, it’s the same explanation style, voiceover, artwork that you see in their videos today. So, it needs to be tailored to that audience. Explanations don’t work in a vacuum.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This year I had the opportunity to attend my first Adobe eLearning conference. At this year’s conference, Adobe previewed the 360 and the interactive video feature for the next newest version of Captivate. The voiceover was created using Amazon’s AWS Polly. I continued using Captivate for my freelance projects.

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Trivantis

JUNE 14, 2016

At this year’s Lectora® User Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Kristi Lozano, an instructional designer at Baptist Health South Florida, talked about the bright idea of using intrinsic exercises and games to prompt learning. Use your SME for the voiceover if he or she shares enthusiasm about the project and topic.

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Trivantis

JULY 13, 2015

At this year’s Lectora® User Conference in Nashville, Marlon Oneid ( YouAchieve ) and Richard Sikes ( Text&Form ) talked about using multimedia localization to address the global world that we live in. For example, here’s a cultural consideration you might not have realized.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 8, 2011

The Narrator Files for voiceover narration. We still have a folks on our team we like to use for voiceover, but when we need a slightly different sound or multiple voices, The Narrator Files is a great option. Even if you missed the conference, you can still download the handout.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I was impressed with the effort that goes into recording good audio for eLearning (I always thought that people plugged in a USB mic to their laptop and recorded the voiceover audio :)). Tags: Conferences and events. Not to mention the array of sound editing software used. captivate podcast.

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E-learning Uncovered

JULY 8, 2011

The Narrator Files for voiceover narration. We still have a folks on our team we like to use for voiceover, but when we need a slightly different sound or multiple voices, The Narrator Files is a great option. Even if you missed the conference, you can still download the handout.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 1, 2012

If you register early, you only pay $495 for the entire conference. Join her online and learn about  Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts  and  eLearning: Writing Step-by-Step Scripts and Training Documents. Others are correct and clear.    Can you spot the difference?

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JANUARY 7, 2016

I saw this example used at a conference in Los Angeles and they used it to create engaging eLearning scenarios. So I learned some excellent tips from this conference that I want to share with you that I have integrated into my online learning and training programs. It was death by PowerPoint and voiceover. Even zombies!

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Students can call in to a help desk or the instructor can set up a time to meet with the students via conference call at a set day and time and answer any questions the students may have." Just need an instructor available to answer questions, and this can be done remotely. " One of our readers.

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The Learning Dispatch

MAY 4, 2018

Senior Learning Architect Kevin Gumienny shares conference insights on how to include accessibility in your elearning development process. The 33 rd California State University, Northridge Assistive Technology Conference (CSUN) is like all good conferences: so much information so quickly that you fear your brain is about to melt. (By

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 11, 2023

Abby Alepa Useful tools AI Text to Speech: Human-level Voices | LOVO AI This AI voiceover tool has options for adding emotions. “Get Paid What You’re Worth,” part of the free TLDC Women of Learning and Development 2023 online conference. In these cases, extended audio description is necessary.

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fewStones

MAY 1, 2023

An e-learning video by HubSpot Academy Event coverage videos Going to host a conference, exhibition, roundtable soon? It serves as a corporate video guide so that you’ll not be losing any important scenes and voiceovers before you end production. Having an event video is a perfect way to establish and position your brand in the market.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Otherwise, I might show up at the conference looking like a doofus in a leisure suit. eLearning Conferences 2011 - eLearning Technology , November 11, 2010Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009.

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

And your “recording studio&# is a spare conference room. It’s just you and your voiceover talent. It’s not like you just stop your work and teleport to the conference room and then teleport right back. Because of this, using Joe and Samantha requires a lot more time and retakes to get it right.

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Good To Great

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Time to select voiceover artists and arrange audio recording (again, even if the date isn’t yet pinned down). Instead, I use one colour and I’ve labelled it ‘Must Attend’ I use this for all calls, meetings, conferences, events, travelling or holidays – things that can’t move.

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LifterLMS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Like if you live in a small town, for example and they have a conference going on, or something that you could tie your expertise to. Esther Kiss: It’s like when you go to an event, a conference and you see the speakers, and now you’re running up to them to say thank you, and congratulations, or let me ask you a question.

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As accessibility consultant Ryan Strunk and product designer Joe Lonsky noted at the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, the cost of fixing a bug increases from 1x in design, to 6.5x If they discuss assistive technologies, they should identify specific technologies, such as VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, ZoomText, or PAC3. How to test?

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The Learning Dispatch

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As accessibility consultant Ryan Strunk and product designer Joe Lonsky noted at the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, the cost of fixing a bug increases from 1x in design, to 6.5x If they discuss assistive technologies, they should identify specific technologies, such as VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, ZoomText, or PAC3. How to test?

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TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 3, 2018

I was recently in a conference workshop with Shannon Tipton (Learning Rebels). Similar guidelines apply for anyone recording the voiceover. Even though you don’t have to have a masterpiece, there are steps you can take to make your video a success. Starting is step one, and nothing else but getting going will get you around it.

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B Online Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Second review of the whole course end to end (and sign off on external media scripting, e.g. professional voiceover). Web conferences. Second review of the whole course end to end (and sign off of external media scripting for development, e.g. voiceover scripting). First full review of the whole course end to end.

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STRIVR

JUNE 14, 2023

Existing voiceovers that have been manually recorded can also be edited with AI to fix mistakes in dialog. We’ve already seen plenty of examples of AI being used to create animated avatars that realistically lip-sync to pre-recorded dialog, for instance, during virtual conferences.

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Mike Taylor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Learning is not a once-off event such as attending a workshop, doing a course or attending a conference. Just type your voice over text into presenter notes, and upload it to Narakeet, and it will create your slideshow with voiceover. Conferences & Learning Events. Learning is not training. Never forget a website again.

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