MARY TTS supports German, British and American English, Telugu, Turkish, and Russian; more languages are in preparation. MARY TTS comes with toolkits for quickly adding support for new languages and for building unit selection and HMM-based synthesis voices. MORE

ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. From 2002 until the end of 2008, Charles was the Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters where he had responsibility for developing the global learning and performance strategy and leading the learning organisation for the firm’s 55,000 workforce. MORE

Google has a social media toolkit: Wtools to use when (they serve diff purposes) Style guides – a blog style is the voice you’re writing in, Twitter has space limitations – how do you stay brief? Supporting existing online training: Phase 1: Organize existing online: – this is a gadget, loads anywhere someone wants it – Sifting terms – browse for training via specific keyboards Phase 2: Wanted to support volunteers who were not IDs. MORE

Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010. The Learning Professional’s toolkit – what’s essential? Research supports “less learning more often&# - Lars is Learning , September 26, 2010. Here it is - the very best posts and the hottest topics for 2010. How do we come up with these - well it’s based on social signals (clicks, views, twitter, delicious and more). So, really, you’ve been voting on this all year long just based on your activity. MORE

This month's LCBQ is What are your Predictions and Plans for 2011? Tony Bates - eLearning Outlook for 2011 1. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning. Some Mobile Learning Predictions for 2011 Mobile learning will get its own identity. MORE

This meant only three or four respondents were citing these trends as tools or tactics in their talent development toolkits: Computer-based training (CD-ROMs). Electronic Performance Support Systems (Interesting fact: Google was founded in September 1998.). MORE

However, after reviewing our many years of work, we realise today that training in isolation is rarely the RIGHT answer for most performance problems, since performance-related issues could find roots in numerous other aspects in the workplace. MORE

Let’s talk about performance.” . Clark Quinn’s recent book, Revolutionizing Learning and Development , slams L&D, which should be named Performance and Development, for seriously underperforming. . Top performers are the 20% of the team that generate 80% of the results. MORE