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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. Accelerated Production Text-to-speech (TTS) technology is extremely easy to implement for text that already exists in a digital form.

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Adobe Captivate: Train The Text-to-Speech Agents

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        During my  live, online Adobe Captivate classes , I teach students how to use Captivate's Text to Speech feature. Text to Speech is an easy-to-use utility that will instantly convert written text into audio files. And why not?

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Captivate 8: Working with Text-to-Speech and Voices

eLearning Brothers

Toward the end of that post is a quick mention and “how to” on Captivate’s text-to-speech functionality. So here’s a quick overview of Captivate 8’s text-to-speech features as well as some details on how to obtain the voices, install them, and a couple related options and further resource information.

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Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality

Tony Karrer

This post is part of the series on Text-to-Speech (TTS) for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me. One of the concerns raised by various comments during the series has been around the quality of the results of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Voices and if that was suitable for eLearning.

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Text To Speech Synthesizers

The eLearning Coach

This is how you start to think about voice characters after listening to them through text to speech synthesizers (TTS). When Adobe included a text to speech application in Captivate 4, I began to think that TTS might be a viable option in certain situations. TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS. NaturalSoft.

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Text-to-Speech Basics: What Is TTS and Who Uses It?

CourseArc

Call it the age of conversational computing—and the computer’s end of these conversations comes courtesy of a digital technology called text to speech, or TTS for short. For years it’s been used as an accessibility tool; as educational technology (edtech); and as an audio alternative to reading.

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Text to Speech: Is it the Right Option for Your Course?

E-learning Uncovered

I recently used a text to speech program to create the audio for a course. What is text to speech? Text to speech, or speech synthesis, is the artificial production of human speech. Several other programs are also available. You need the audio quickly?