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Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing

Tony Karrer

Here are some examples of rates of voice talents suited for e-learning (voice talents for advertising can be a lot more). Audio Distribution – a sound file that was created with the voice is distributed and played to an audience. Within audio distribution the following categories exist. Site Rate per hour www.e-learningvoices.com/price-per-minute.php

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Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning

eFront

xical.org With Xical you can produce web-based slide shows, tutorials, tests and whatever else you can think of that can make use of integrated rich media, such as audio (speech and music), video, animations or interactive visual diagrams and the likes. ClassTools.net Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!

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Elearning applications

eFront

CamStudio - (Authoring Tool) CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). The project is hosted at Google Code. wibiya widget Simple template.

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Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

eFront

Download audio and podcasts. Create.mp3 or.m4b (Audio Book) recordings (in English, French, Spanish and German) of any text content on your computer or mobile phone. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools. Its fast and easy to use.

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mLearning Feature Sets: Possibilities Wide & Deep

mLearning Trends

As discussed recently with Judy Brown , ADL's mobile learning expert and industry Mobile Maven, the concepts underlying mobile learning run wide and deep. Mobile devices -- especially smartphones – are well suited to package, deliver and manage these social interactions as part of the overall fabric of a blended learning environment.

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 1 (A-L)

LearnUpon

ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning): An initiative established by the US Department Of Defense in 1999, aiming to make the delivery of online training consistent across content formats, technologies, and organizations. Asynchronous learning: Allows learners to train individually at the time, place, and pace that suits them.

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Ultimate eLearning terms you should know: Part 2 (M-Z)

LearnUpon

Content that works on desktop isn’t always suited to mobile learning. Podcast: Digital audio files used by millions of listeners to learn about a huge range of subjects. SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model): A set of standards developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) and applied when developing LMS content.