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Text to Speech

Tony Karrer

The interviewer was a female voice asking questions. For short bursts of text, the computer generated voice was okay. I tried YAKiToMe! She would ask a question and then he would respond. What was interesting is that the interviewer was produced using Text to Speech. The effect was interesting. For what kinds of content?

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Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning

eFront

Before I present you the list I would like to answer two important questions: 1) Why not use Human voice over? For me it is unacceptable that eLearning organization create courses that they do not have voice. Some people will say that not all computers have speakers or that the voice is annoying. Come on guys are you serious!