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KITABOO partners with Amazon Polly for creating interactive children’s eBooks

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Amazon Polly, a Text-to-Speech service, is another popular platform for converting textbooks into lifelike speech. So you can create apps that talk and build entirely new categories of eBooks that are speech-enabled. You can optimize your streaming video and control tone, speech rate, pitch, and loudness.

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Top eBook to Audiobook Converters

Kitaboo

Here are some other features of a textbook reader and converter you may want to consider while converting your eBook into an audiobook: Seamless synchronization – The textbook reader and converter should provide a smooth and seamless sync between the text and the audio content.

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Summer Course Authoring Tool Rankings – Top Ten

eLearning 24-7

Text to speech – Very nice – everyone should offer this feature. Synchronized transcripts – ideal for video. Video streaming. Equation tool – I’ve seen more vendors add this thing – and unless you are in education I can’t see why you would use it. Audio recording and editing.

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The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs

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Under her guidance, the association was able to offer its first asynchronous Web-delivered course, and its first synchronous Webinar. Update 11/24/2010: suggested by alearning ) Tagoras Blog (Tagoblog) by Jeff Cobb & Celisa Steele The blog focuses on an ongoing stream of resources related to learning strategy, marketing, and technology.

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Authoring Tools- The DevLearn Experience

eLearning 24-7

From products that ranged from the latest versions of RCATs to new vendors in the space, including text to speech. . But in order to utilize Flash, you have to go to the settings in the browser and turn on something called Flash streaming. I wasn’t disappointed. I was enthralled. Photon offers great capabilities.

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DRM Protection and eBooks: How It Shapes Our Reading Experience

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DRM protection for eBooks ensures that protection is guaranteed for the revenue stream of authors and publishers. Provides customizable settings such as font size, background color, and text-to-speech options. It ensures that people who want to access the content must acquire it legally, supporting the creators financially.

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6 Ways in Which Technology Improves the K12 Education Sector

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For example, text-to-speech converts the typed text into audio, helping students listen to a lesson rather than read it. Whether it be a learner with gifted genius or one with special needs, K12 publisher technology has the capability of keeping every learner well synchronized with the pace of the entire class.