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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? Convenience.

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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.

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The Benefits of Read-Aloud eBooks: Enhancing Literacy Skills

Kitaboo

The text-to-speech and read-aloud functions have been built into the eBook design. eBook content can be read aloud using “text to speech” (TTS) or “read aloud” capabilities. Text-to-speech or read-aloud features are integrated into the majority of high-end eBooks.

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Interactive eBooks: The Future of Digital Textbooks Unveiled

Kitaboo

Learners are engrossed and retain more while watching video demos, virtual experiments, participating in interactive quizzes, and more, than passively reading through the lines of a book. Moreover, learners with diverse learning needs can use features like text-to-speech and custom font styles for an inclusive and adaptable learning approach.

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Adobe has posted a demo of Text to Speech in Captivate 4

Steve Howard

One of the great new features is a text to speech engine that lets you generate speech from your closed caption text. Adobe Captivate 4 Text to Speech demo. Adobe has published a demo showing how to use this new feature on the Adobe Captivate Blog. Posted in Adobe, Captivate, eLearning.

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How to Record Your Own Audio Narration

Rapid eLearning

Text-to-speech. Use the text-to-speech feature to create demo narration for the review process. And if you need to make changes, it’s just a matter of typing new text and not going through the process of recording new narration. Sound like a real person. The walls are designed to absorb sound.

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5 Reasons why you should consider ePUB3 over other eBook formats

Kitaboo

This supports 32 languages and further allows the creation of audiobooks that sounds natural. The format offers better semantics, media overlays, pronunciation hints, and text-to-speech playback. The format supports various input formats, such as XML, HTML, PDF, and others. There is also an option of a ‘Narrator’.

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