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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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Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech

Tony Karrer

This is the second post in a series on Text-to-Speech for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me (which turns out to be a great way to learn). In this post we’ll look at the second component of a text to speech voice: the digital signal processor (DSP) and its measures of quality.

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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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Captivate 8: Working with Text-to-Speech and Voices

eLearning Brothers

An earlier post on this blog offers Adobe Captivate Example Courses for download. Toward the end of that post is a quick mention and “how to” on Captivate’s text-to-speech functionality. From the resulting dialog, select the Text-to-Speech button. Then in the left-side pane, click Text to Speech.

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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. For example: He reads well.

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Text To Speech Synthesizers

The eLearning Coach

This is how you start to think about voice characters after listening to them through text to speech synthesizers (TTS). When Adobe included a text to speech application in Captivate 4, I began to think that TTS might be a viable option in certain situations. TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS. Virtual Speaker.

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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. All these examples just scratch the surface of what TTS can do. Explore ReadSpeaker’s TTS voices, complete with audio examples.