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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

Audio narration can be very time consuming, and in many cases requires hiring talent for a professional sound. However, what if you don’t have the budget to hire the talent to make it sound professional? Adobe Captivate includes a text-to-speech function that allows seamless narration without having to do any recording.

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PowerPoint: Text-to-Speech Voiceover Tools

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

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. As with HelloSlide, typing your text phonetically will help with pronunciation.  

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The Symphony Of eLearning: How Audio Enhances The Learning Experience

eLearning Industry

The article analyzes the significance of sound in eLearning, highlighting how audio (narration and music) enhances memorization and emotions. It discusses choosing between narrators and text-to-speech, and the impact of narration on learning effectiveness, noting the costs and challenges of audio integration.

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Text to Speech

Tony Karrer

What was interesting is that the interviewer was produced using Text to Speech. The effect was interesting. For short bursts of text, the computer generated voice was okay. Based on the comments during the session, a few questions came up: Does Text to Speech work for longer form content? I tried YAKiToMe!

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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.