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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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Text-to-Speech Functionality in Captivate

Integrated Learnings

There are a lot of arguments about using audio in eLearning – some in favor, some not. Audio narration can be very time consuming, and in many cases requires hiring talent for a professional sound. What if you simply do not have the time to devote to recording audio in the first place? Text-to-Speech Challenges.

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

eLearning Brothers

Toward the end of that post is a quick mention and “how to” on Captivate’s text-to-speech functionality. So here’s a quick overview of Captivate 8’s text-to-speech features as well as some details on how to obtain the voices, install them, and a couple related options and further resource information.

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Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing

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. Text-to-Speech Examples In this post, we will look more closely at costs of Text-to-Speech and issues around TTS Voice Licensing and Pricing. This is a low value usage. Includes call centers.

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The critical role of accessibility in elearning

Limestone Learning

Implementing accessibility in elearning Creating accessible elearning content requires thoughtful design and the integration of various accessibility features: Visual accessibility: Include alternative text for images, use sufficient contrast for text and background and ensure that all information conveyed with color is also available without color.

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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. For years it’s been used as an accessibility tool; as educational technology (edtech); and as an audio alternative to reading.

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

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 1/16/2011 Free and Open Source Text to Speech Tools for e-Learning Open source software can be used as we wish, without long-term commitments and with a community of professionals that extend and support them.