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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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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And every year I use this as a Big Question – see: Learning 2010. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. I’d ask questions and edit it. I’ve been doing this the past few years, for example: Learned about Learning in 2009. Instead, Joel would write it up.

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Voice-Over in eLearning

The Learning Circuits

Joel Harband has been teaching me all about Using Text-to-Speech in eLearning. The comment was: Even the best Text-to-Speech can only do one thing - receive text and spit it back out. The most sophisticated text-to-speech cannot approach a real voice person for e-learning.

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Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning

Tony Karrer

Some challenging questions are being raised in this month’s Big Question - Voice Over in eLearning. Some of the key questions: Given the range of solutions for voice-over from text-to-speech, home-grown human voice-over, professional voice-over: how do you decide what's right for your course? Case Study D.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

This month's #LCBQ is the first with the Big Question Thought Leaders. Lots of discussion and debate around interesting questions for eLearning professionals. One thing that I've not heard discussed as much is the voice recognition and text-to-speech of the application. I'm hoping that others will join the effort.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Voice-Over in eLearning - The Learning Circuits Blog , September 1, 2010 Over the past couple of months, Dr. Joel Harband has been teaching me all about Using Text-to-Speech in eLearning. The comment was: Even the best Text-to-Speech can only do one thing - receive text and spit it back out. Text-to-Speech (5).

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Top 75 eLearning Posts - May 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Without trust, employees become what Judy Bardwick, in her article titled “The High Cost of Mistrust,&# calls actively disengaged. The Big Question: What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015? probably need some help soon to keep the questions going and interesting. Stanley McChrystal, who heads U.S.