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Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing

Tony Karrer

Text-to-Speech Examples In this post, we will look more closely at costs of Text-to-Speech and issues around TTS Voice Licensing and Pricing. TTS Voice Licenses The TTS voice vendors enforce the intended usage of a voice by a voice license, which precisely describes the restrictions on the use of the voice.

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

Meanwhile, JVC’s VHS standard wasn’t quite as good, but they openly licensed it. The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative of the Department of Defense finally had enough. The ADL provided compliance testing, so that content and systems could be validated for interoperability. The outcome: VHS won. Going Forward.

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September Newsletter: What’s New with GeT?

Global eTraining

Join us for a deep dive into the importance of company-wide knowledge capture and ADL’s journey to find training that caters to their team’s varied levels of professional experience and software knowledge. KEEP READING Have you heard of our GeT Rewards program? Meet with one of our GeT Experts to learn more!

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SCORM Engine 2017.1 is released!

Rustici Software

New releases are always included in your licenses, so there aren’t any additional fees. ADL officially released the xAPI Conformance Test Suite and (Good news!) Using Engine as your LRS will help your product pass the xAPI Conformance Test Suite and enable you to be on ADL’s list of Conformant LRSs. xAPI Conformance.

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Tin Can API, the evolution of SCORM

Paradiso

Originally developed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), an initiative of the Unite States Department of Defense, SCORM was designed to standardize and modernize their training courses. If you have a whole library of courses that are not optimized for Tin Can API, then an LRS may not be the right solution for you.

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Why You Don’t Need a SCORM Compliant Learning Management System

Continu

You can’t institute license codes or individualized instruction from within a SCORM course. When ADL created SCORM trainers weren’t thinking about these things yet. A full license for Captivate is $1,099. Storyline costs $1,299 per license. Even ADL, the company that created SCORM, has moved onto a different model.

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Phew! Reflecting on #ASTD10

Learning Visions

People are frustrated with ongoing licensing fees, lack of good customer support and responsiveness from traditional LMS vendors, and slow time to implement. But did you know there is actually a Mr. SCORM and that he is the fabulous Aaron Silvers of ADL ? Yes, indeed. Companies want the flexibility and freedom of an open source model.

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