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What Is the Difference between Audiobooks and Digital Books?

Kitaboo

Small file sizes : Digital books, no matter how graphic-heavy, have relativity small file sizes( usually a couple of MBs), which allow you to carry a library equivalent of books in the palm of your hand. This comes down to the expenses incurred in hiring the studio space, the voice actors, the editing involved, and so on.

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Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech

Tony Karrer

The first post, Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , introduced the text to speech voice and discussed issues of quality related to its first component – the natural language processor (NLP). 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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Do You Hear That? It’s Your eLearning Course Sounding Better

eLearning Brothers

Eliminating breaths is another key component of having professional sounding voice overs. However, when you record a voice, the microphone picks up those breaths much louder than we’re used to hearing. You could export to 320 kbps but that kind of quality is unnecessary and will just be a larger file size.

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Qarbon Camtasia and Adobe Captivate

Tony Karrer

Question from a reader, hoping you can provide your thoughts: I am in the process of selecting an elearning tool that is easy to use, quick to create the demos and does not bloat the file size much. Also every screen would have audio (voiceover with my voice) accompanying it. Qarbon Pros: Less File size.

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Introducing Tech Tuesday toolbox

Mike Taylor

Quickly find media that is inflating the file size and reliably and easily replace fonts throughout your presentation. Otter Voice Meeting Notes – Otter.ai Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant.

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How to Create an Interactive eBook in 10 Steps

Kitaboo

Kitaboo also allows texts to be read aloud with the help of audio sync feature, aligning the text to the voice file. The time required to convert, publish and archive an eBook depends on various factors such as the size of the PDF file, size and number of multimedia resources embedded in the book, number of books in a queue etc.

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How can I organize e-learning project assets for effective version control and file management?

Yukon Learning

However, if you use voiceover talent to record audio, you’ll usually receive.mp3 or.wav files. We structure the scripts to distinguish one track per slide/layer, and then ask the voice actor to label the tracks accordingly. You may also choose to delete the Images folder if it doesn’t contain any source files for custom-created images.

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