Here are a few of the top web services for TTS: Company Web Service Loquendo Pronuncia NeoSpeech On Demand Acapela-Group Acapela-Box These web services have the advantages: Choose any voice among a set of vendors voices Set pitch, speed volume of voice for the entire file Select type of sound file output (wav, mp3, etc) Preview function Pronunciation dictionary Pay as you go Disadvantages Because they are web services, there’s no automatic connection with the desktop file system. What tools are immediately available? TTS Integrated. It sounds really easy and it is. eLearning Technology. MORE >>

WAV file, but Captivate would not load it into the slide. WAV file was 687 MB, while the *.MP3 I have been trying out Adobe's eLearning Suite and soon came across a slight bug -- Captivate would not record an audio narration. To work around it, I used Adobe Soundbooth CS4 to record the narration. first tried saving the narration as a *.WAV then went back to Soundbooth and saved it as an *.MP3 MP3 file. Captivate imported the new format without any problems. In addition, the *.WAV MP3 file was reduced to 590 bytes. docid=a14e1bd9-dc10-4456-9cd2-44489809b78e. Start Captivate 4. MORE >>

Audio – 3GP, MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4),  AIFF, and WAV., The Revolution. Battlefield. Learning and all forms within are normally taken via your desktop computer and either hitting your company’s server with your browser or going to a hosted LMS vendor’s solution.  If you wanted to work on creating content, for many people, the route would be and still is creating courses via a desktop based rapid e-learning authoring tool, or via your LMS/LCMS vendor’s tool (hosted or not) or via Dreamweaver or some other type of solution. Nvida. MORE >>

In Adobe Captivate 5, you simply choose Audio > Import to > Background and open the audio file (wav or mp3). by Kevin Siegel. Captivate developers have been able to add background audio to their projects since Captivate was known as RoboDemo. The process of adding background audio hasn't changed much over the years. One of the options missing from RoboDemo and older versions of Captivate was the ability to control the volume of the background audio on slides that already had audio (voiceover audio for instance). Adobe Captivate 5 addressed this shortcoming. MORE >>

TTSReader Is a full-featured, text-to speech software package that allows reading text aloud as well as to wav or mp3 files. Do you experience traffic jams? Do you curse at other 'Monkey' drivers? Do you feel like beating the 'Beep' out of them? Do you listen to the radio hoping for the right song? Do you spend more than 1 hour traveling on the road every day? Do you feel that you are wasting your time? Do you prefer just listening to music (to relax and chill!)? Do you have an iPod or MP3 player? In the past they sounded robotic and horrible! Open Educational Resources ). MORE >>