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Interactive eBook Apps for Education: Read Aloud & Text-to-Speech

Kitaboo

Close to 40% of kids and young adults reported enjoying listening to audio content. Moreover, features like text-to-speech and read-aloud capture and retain the attention of students and help them comprehend topics better. These features also benefit auditory learners, who retain information better by listening.

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Audiobooks for Education: The Rise of Text-to-Speech Textbooks

Kitaboo

One of the major reasons is that text-to-speech textbooks can be conveniently listened to in case the learner is unable to sit down and read. Modernization With Text-to-Speech Textbooks II. It is particularly helpful for the disengaged learner who finds it hard to focus while reading.

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ARTICULATE STORYLINE 360: Three Cheers for Text-to-Speech

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

During our live, online Articulate Storyline Beginner classes , we teach students how to import and record voiceover audio. The most common question we get about voiceover audio is “Can Storyline convert text to audio files?”     Before using Text-to-Speech, I suggest a little pre-work.

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Text-to-Speech Functionality in Captivate

Integrated Learnings

There are a lot of arguments about using audio in eLearning – some in favor, some not. Audio narration can be very time consuming, and in many cases requires hiring talent for a professional sound. What if you simply do not have the time to devote to recording audio in the first place? Text-to-Speech Challenges.

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Save Time Using Text to Speech in Captivate 9

eLearning Brothers

We use graphics instead of text to spark our learners’ interest, we incorporate interactivity to keep them engaged, and we add video and audio to bring life to our courses. Captivate has a feature, though, that makes adding the spoken word much easier: Text-to-Speech.

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ARTICULATE STORYLINE 360: Three Cheers for Text-to-Speech

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

During our live, online Articulate Storyline Beginner classes , we teach students how to import and record voiceover audio. The most common question we get about voiceover audio is “Can Storyline convert text to audio files?”     Before using Text-to-Speech, I suggest a little pre-work.

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Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course

Tony Karrer

This is third post in a series on Text-to-Speech for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me (which turns out to be a great way to learn). In this post we will begin to address the practical side of the subject: How can e-learning developers use Text-to-Speech (TTS) voices to narrate their courses?