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Rapid Narration Software for Presentation Authors and Course Developers |
Speech-Over Applications |
Software that lets presentation authors generate professional, low-cost voice narration in training courses, e-learning and business presentations
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*Includes Two Professional-Quality TTS Voices |
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Add Professional, Low-Cost Voice Narration - Without Hassle Presentation authors and course developers can now add voice-over narration to PowerPoint® presentations right on the desktop - without any microphone recording and voice talents. The latest speech technology produces a natural, professional voice-over narration from any text input in just a few minutes - saving time, cost and hassle. Make Tight Production Deadlines Authors can add voice narration to PowerPoint any time, any place, and work as a team to achieve tight production deadlines. Robust and Versatile Speech-Over Professional is currently used by authors in business, government and education for online training, e-learning, and marketing presentations. Authors learn it fast with our on-line tutorials. |
Big Savings on Make changes in narration easily by just editing text. No more re-recording, update only what is needed. This means big savings for presentations that are frequently changed. And, the same exact voice is always available. Syncs the Narration with PowerPoint Animations Automatically syncs the voice narration with PowerPoint slide animations - without any time-line editing and sound file manipulation. Edit Voices to Perfection Authors can adjust the pronunciation and modulate the articulation of the voice to perfection easily with Speech-Over’s unique Pronunciation Editor and SAPI Voice Editor. TTS Voices with Commercial License Includes a commercial voice license for using the voices in audio presentations commercially in the licensee company or institution. Licenses for selling the audio presentations are available. |
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Acapela Voices Upgraded and New Ones Added The voices from Acapela-Group (e.g. Heather) have been upgraded to version 8, which includes expanded SAPI programming ability (Emphasis tag now works). Listen to a sample. New Acapela Voices New voices from Acapela-Group are now available for use with Speech-Over Pro, including German and Danish voices. See purchase page. 64-bit Machines SpeechOver Professional 4.0 and NeoSpeech Paul now work on 64-bit machines - with the 32-bit version of Office. |
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“Speech-Over has proven to be an effective and economical way for Otis to produce training material. It allows our subject matter experts to focus on the content of their presentation with an economy of words, provides for easy maintenance of training material by limiting the change to specific areas rather than rerecording the entire presentation, and prevents the need for time consuming recording sessions. Bryan Leach |
“The ease of converting the text to voice, coupled with the ability to go back and instantly change the narration on a single slide, and have it exactly match the voice of every other slide, recorded weeks or months earlier is invaluable. Short technical/repair training modules that took us a month or more to develop and schedule voice-over and re-voice-over to correct and edit, now, with Speech-Over, literally take us just days to develop start to finish, right on the desktop. Acceptance by the students has been 100%. Mark Hoefle, |
“The convenience factor of just sitting down and creating a presentation would be non-existent without I tried the nightmare of a hired voice for one day, and when thinking ahead to changes in laws and legal interpretations, the cost and time associated with making future changes frightened me to the point that I was about to forget the project. Larry White, DealerCompUSA |
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Training and E-learning: Create narrated PowerPoint-based training courses fast and put them on-line - and update them easily. Managers prefer using Speech-Over’s more flexible, reliable and cost-effective narration system over professional voice-overs. |
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Business Presentations: Excellent for businesses. Provides easily generated and changeable training media with voice-over that is combined with the graphics and animation. Allows quick deployment of PowerPoint presentations that are self running and narrated. Effective and affordable. See samples of distributed presentations. |
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Education: Create audio-visual lessons and courses with teacher’s voice in PowerPoint - and put them on-line for e-learning. They are great teaching aids and learning aids to help students learn the subject material and for students that were absent from class. Download the sample lesson: Telling Time. |
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Marketing: Add a voice narration to enliven a PowerPoint marketing or business presentation. |
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Presenters: · Record a TTS voice to see how your presentation script will sound. · Perpetuate an important one-time PowerPoint presentation as a narrated “leave-behind” for people who couldn’t attend. · Automate frequently-repeated narrated PowerPoint presentations, such as a plant safety orientation. |
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Content Management: Capture, share and preserve valuable corporate content in Speech-Over clip text storage or recordings. Preserve expert knowledge and create early-stage informal documentation in PowerPoint. |
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Corporate Communications: Communicate with narrated PowerPoint presentations to express information, plans or ideas. |
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For the Disabled: A visually disabled reader can access an archived narrated PowerPoint presentation. Provides slide narration capability for presenters with speech disabilities or language difficulties. Subtitles are provided for the hearing disabled. |
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Can I share the narrated presentations with people that do not have Speech-Over Professional installed? |
Yes, the narrations use standard PowerPoint media effects and can be heard with PowerPoint alone. |
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Can I upload the narrated presentations to the web? |
Yes, you can convert the narrated presentations into Flash or other formats for the web with tools that recognize PowerPoint media effects, like Camtasia®, Captivate®, and Articulate®. |
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I don't see how anyone could sit still and listen intently (which is what learning requires) for more than just a couple of minutes to a 'voice' that has either little inflection or inflection on the wrong words and syllables. |
The latest state-of-the-art TTS voices get the inflection right on 95% of the words. The rest are easily adjusted to perfection with Speech-Over’s Pronunciation Editor, SAPI Voice Editor and simple punctuation. The result is a lively and realistic voice that is easy to listen to. |
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And even if someone was able to listen to synthesized speech for any length of time, how much of what was heard will be retained? |
Our customers report that comparative testing shows that retention is the same with TTS voices as with human voice-overs. |