TechSmith Camtasia

JANUARY 4, 2013

Dan Keith is, in my opinion, a creative powerhouse and someone TechSmith will be watching throughout 2013. But with the help of text-to-speech programs, design software and Camtasia , Dan is able to share his creative skills with the world. And through Camtasia, they’re able to share it all with potential customers.

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Voice TechSmith Text-to-Speech SnagIt 76

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Here is how these new rankings will work throughout 2013: Debut this month, update in July, final top 25 in Dec. They are reporting that in March 2013 you will be able to output to HTML5. Plus each character (and they have a lot) can be fully customized right in the product. Therefore, new rankings are in order.

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Authoring Tools Brainshark PPT 104

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MARCH 20, 2013

Each can be customized – to a degree. You could also change the text. It also lacked the ability to customize your avatars or upload your own face and customize your avatars. Image editing – several vendors are offering this – I expect more to follow suit – but not huge numbers by the end of 2013.

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Authoring Market Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion 74

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JUNE 11, 2013

Text to speech – Very nice – everyone should offer this feature. Customized branding – another trend in the space and should be universal in the market. Rather continuing to break down course walls through superior feature sets and an understanding of where authoring tools should be in 2013. 5 Courselab.

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Authoring Tools CourseLab Course 85

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JANUARY 18, 2012

While RCATs never really offered a robust set of Clip Art for their customers (heck, most offered ZERO), they are now slowly offering images of people – not cartoon like, or an outline – but actual stock people images. You want to be innovative and still have customers? Characters – images of real people.

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