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Best Practices for Voice-Over

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Even though.wav files are much higher sound quality (which is not necessary for most eLearning courses), they can potentially slow down the bandwidth. Try to minimize any external noises, such as air conditioners, fans, cars, computers, etc. We also recommend to compress the file to an.mp3 format.

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Navigating the Journey to Teaching and Learning Online: Step 5

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Many school districts currently allow blizzard bags to take the place of a few snow days, but when students are accustomed to a blended environment, seamlessly changing to a fully online environment can keep students on track in a more academically sound way.

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Text-to-Speech Basics: What Is TTS and Who Uses It?

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Curious what today’s leading TTS actually sounds like? It also bundles in the program that produces voice sound waves; that’s called a vocoder. That requires knowledge of linguistics, down to the level of the phoneme—the units of sound that, combined, make up speech, such as the /c/ sound in cat.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

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Descriptive transcripts provide important cues, sound effects, words on screen, descriptions of figures, images, or actions, and/or visual characteristics that provide additional context. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, closed captioning provides the narration of the audio.

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Navigating the Journey to Teaching and Learning Online: Step 5

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Many school districts currently allow blizzard bags to take the place of a few snow days, but when students are accustomed to a blended environment, seamlessly changing to a fully online environment can keep students on track in a more academically sound way.

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Making eLearning More Engaging for the Technical Learner

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While all eLearning courses must be instructionally sound, fun, and engaging, technical training is much harder to design as the content is almost always dull and, at the same time, extremely critical for accurately performing the job.

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Scenario-Based Learning in a Virtual Classroom

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Putting skin in the game and making mistakes will help learners make sound decisions, and apply their new knowledge and skills to their job. We also have quizzes which allow you to give custom feedback tailored to each question/answer. Adding the emotional component to scenarios will engage learners and make training more impactful.