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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. Table of Contents I. Modernization With Text-to-Speech Textbooks II. Audiobooks have had a tremendous positive impact on the community in general. Let’s see what they are: 1.

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KITABOO – Facilitating Text-to-speech in eBook Readers

Kitaboo

They expect updated content and look for accessibility as one of the key requirements when making their pick of e-readers. Text to speech (TTS) is an exciting technology that helps publishers address these challenges simply and cost-effectively. 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

Many eLearning development tools allow you to easily record narration with your content, including Adobe Presenter and Adobe Captivate. What if you, as the Designer, do not feel that you have the voice for the recordings? Captivate takes what you type and converts it to a voice-over for each slide. Text-to-Speech Challenges.

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PowerPoint: Text-to-Speech Voiceover Tools

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

You could, of course, record a voiceover in PowerPoint, but maybe you have a cold and your voice isn't up to par. Or maybe your own voice sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to you. Several new tools allow you to type the text you would normally say, and have text-to-speech technology (TTS) generate the voiceover for you.

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Introducing Peregrine: A Truly Realistic Text to Speech Model with Emotion and Laughter

Play.ht

The future is AI generated Content creation and creative work is changing forever with the advent of generative ML. The post Introducing Peregrine: A Truly Realistic Text to Speech Model with Emotion and Laughter appeared first on Play.ht - Blog.

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Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality

Tony Karrer

Dr. Joel Harband wrote most of this post and I worked with him on the focus, the content and a little bit of editing - actually I couldn't help myself and I edited this a lot. 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.