eLearning 24-7

MAY 2, 2011

Text to Speech, Automatic Voice Recognition, Audio Social Learning. Go to any mobile device marketplace and enter TTS (Text to Speech). Tired of having to type to post comments in social learning solutions, what about on discussion boards or forums?

Open Source 76

Open Source e-learning vendor VOIP vendor 76

eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Features include: branching, assessment tool, convert slide notes to computer-generated audio via text-to-speech converter (11 voices/accents according to Brainshark), skinned, send links to access courses via social media, output to MP4, certificates and SCORM. That said, the enterprise version is really strong.

Authoring 104

Authoring Tools Brainshark PPT 104

eLearning 24-7

JULY 23, 2012

For those who charge with storage – storage includes all courses, files – including your audio, video, images and documents. Any vendor, who includes a set storage fee, should be able to provide you a range of number of courses – with examples and video/audio files – if you plan to use them.

Low Cost 80

Low Cost Cost LMS Server 80

eLearning 24-7

MARCH 20, 2013

Audio Editing. Image editing – several vendors are offering this – I expect more to follow suit – but not huge numbers by the end of 2013. Speech to text and vice versa – small growth. The text to speech has a better chance at solid growth. Another feature on the rise.

Authoring 74

Authoring Market Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion 74

eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

From products that ranged from the latest versions of RCATs to new vendors in the space, including text to speech. . These were not characters that rarely moved, rather you could position them all over the screen, place them in the background and even record audio as part of the output. I wasn’t disappointed.

DevLearn 72

DevLearn Authoring Flash to HTML5 Conversion Tools 72

eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 18, 2012

Screen capture, audio editing. Vendor adoption is slow. More vendors seem interested in PPT, then having this as a spec in their product. Text to Speech – This feature has been around for several years and now it is slowly appearing in a few RCAT products. HTML5 is the new “Green” Get it now.

Authoring Tools 76

Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools 76