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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. And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. 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. How do you do it right?

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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. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. I'm hoping that others will join the effort.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Examples and Samples of Game Design Documents - Kapp Notes , September 15, 2010 Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. The comment was: Even the best Text-to-Speech can only do one thing - receive text and spit it back out. thought so! concerning OER.

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Top 75 eLearning Posts - May 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010 This morning Jane Hart posted this 5-stage model of the evolution of workplace learning in an organization. learning is a mix of formal and informal , not one or the other. learning is a mix of formal and informal , not one or the other. Not even close. site last month.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality - eLearning Technology , June 8, 2010 This post is a new kind of thing for me. Here are eight myths that you often hear, and some expert information to the contrary. In the spirit of that presentation and #lrnchat, I wanted to share the biggest thing I learned at this conference.

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