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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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KITABOO – Facilitating Text-to-speech in eBook Readers

Kitaboo

Text to speech (TTS) is an exciting technology that helps publishers address these challenges simply and cost-effectively. Text-to-speech or TTS is primarily an assistive technology that helps to read digital text aloud. Why is there a need for text-to-speech features in eBook readers?

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Text-to-Speech Functionality in Captivate

Integrated Learnings

Adobe Captivate includes a text-to-speech function that allows seamless narration without having to do any recording. Captivate’s text-to-speech tool is very simple to use and allows you to type the text that you want narrated on each slide. Text-to-Speech Challenges. Is Text-to-Speech for Everyone?

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Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality

Tony Karrer

As you know, Text-to-Speech is something that's very interesting to me and Joel knows a lot about it as CEO of Tuval Software Industries maker of Speech-Over Professional. This software adds text-to-speech voice narration to PowerPoint presentations and is used for training and eLearning at major corporations.

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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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Interactive Learning: Making Education Fun and Effective

Kitaboo

Modern publication technology and online platforms like the KITABOO publishing platform have made education more engaging and effective. You can also add special effects like touch-based page-turning, which are small characteristics that make for a more involving learning experience. Interactivity and Digital Textbooks II.

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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. In this article, we’ll describe the standard text to speech meaning and list some of the populations who benefit from TTS.