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Ø View a Speech-Over Studio online demo. Download the educational presentation: Telling Time.  Download  Introduction to Speech-Over.

Ø Download the trial version of Speech-Over Studio for testing and evaluation.

Ø Purchase Speech-Over Studio over a secure server or by E-mail order and purchase premium voices from the vendors.

Ø Learn about Speech-Over Studio, the background and the benefits, read an article about text-to-speech technology and study white papers about improving training presentations, corporate communications, and knowledge management.

Press

* Speech Technology Magazine

* Training Magazine

* Indezine Review

* PR Web

* Indezine Conversation

* Israel21C

* PR Web Notes-Over

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Speech-Over Forum

The Speech-Over Forum is now available.

Speech-Over Samples

View sample presentations in different formats and sites.

Version 4.0 Released

SpeechOver Professional 4.0 is bundled with NeoSpeech Paul and Acapela Heather TTS voices for each language.

Customer Statements

I need easily generated and changeable training media. I paid $10,000 for a DVD presentation and never used it because it was outdated by the time it was ready for distribution.  With Speech-Over I can change the presentations as needed.

Dr. Thomas R. Reim,
President of DreimLens, Inc

We wanted to make it easier to update and revise our courses by not having to hunt for the original professional voice and, even better, not to have to use a professional voice at all to save cost. Speech-Over text-to-speech software solution met these requirements very well.

Raj Kothandaraman,
Wipro Technologies

The convenience factor of just sitting down and creating a presentation would be non-existent without SpeechOver. 

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.  SpeechOver saved it!

Larry White, DealerCompUSA

Products

Speech Over ™      - For general applications - includes standard Microsoft voices Mike and Mary.

Speech Over Professional ™    - For professional applications - includes two premium quality voices.

The Challenge: Keeping Presentations Up-to-Date with a Changing Reality

A serious challenge that companies face is keeping important audio presentations and videos continuously up-to-date with changes in product, market, procedures, and data to retain the value invested in these presentations.

One of the biggest difficulties in revising and updating these presentations as needed is the recording of the presenter’s voice, which includes cost and scheduling of voice-over talents, especially professional studio voice-overs, and splicing, and synchronizing the audio with time-line editing. 

The Solution: Speech-Over with Text-to-Speech Voices

The recent availability of natural, professional-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices has made it possible to provide high quality voice narration generated from text. Text-to-Speech is now in the mainstream as demonstrated by Amazon’s best selling Kindle book reader - with text-to-speech included.

Speech-Over integrates this technology into PowerPoint with a patented software process to produce narration without any voice recording.

Speech-Over reduces voice narration production to a text-based task that can be handled quickly and easily by ordinary text authors, accelerating the development process and reducing the cost of content creation and administration.

Speech-Over provides flexibility and convenience by allowing authors to generate voice narration any time, any place.

Speech-Over automatically synchronizes the voice track with the object animations to add learning impact to a course without time-line editing: it’s as if the presenter were pointing to the object as he speaks about it.

Speech-Over allows frequent and continuous change, revision and updating of the voice narration based on a changing reality to retain the value invested in  important presentations.  In the same way, it allows the audio for new courses to be built on previous courses.

Features

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Adding Narration Clips

· Add a text-to-speech voice narration clip to any individual screen item (text bullet, graphic, chart, etc) with a simple dialog that allows you to enter the text to be spoken and choose the voice to speak it. Text can be typed in or dictated. The clips are played in sequence in the slide show.

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· Automatically adds a standard PowerPoint animation effect to the individual screen item which animates when the narration clip plays. You can select the effect parameters: effect type, effect trigger, delay, duration, and timing relative to the start of the narration.

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· Add multiple voice narration clips to the slide background for static non-animated slides. They play in sequence.

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· Change the order in which the narration clips are played in the slide show with the Organizer.

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· Add an interactive narration clip to a screen graphic - it plays each time the graphic is clicked. A standard PowerPoint emphasis effect is added to the graphic which animates when the narration clip plays.

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Subtitles

· Create subtitles for each narration clip.

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· Long subtitles scroll along bottom.

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Multiple Audio Sources

· Instead of using text-to-speech for the narration you can import a sound file or record your own voice.

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Editing Clips

· Modulate adjust and fine-tune the text-to-speech voices with the SAPI voice editor.  You can introduce delays, change pitch, speed and volume and add emphasis within the flow of the speech.

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· Edit existing individual narration clips with the Edit dialog.

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· Edit the text for all narration clips on a slide at one time with the Slide Clip Text Editor

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· Copy, cut and paste narration clips between screen items. Create new clips from existing ones.

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· Undo previous commands

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· Edit voice sound files directly with Sound Recorder. After a narration clip has been created with a TTS voice, you can edit its sound file directly with the Sound Recorder. This allows you to insert or mix in other sounds as well as adjusting the volume and speed

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 PowerPoint Notes

· Writes formatted narration clip text to PowerPoint notes pane in the order the clips are played in the presentation. Ideal for handouts.

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· Import existing notes from PowerPoint notes pane for narration clip text.

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Voice Schemes

· Use voice schemes to determine how voices are assigned to the PowerPoint shapes for the entire presentation.

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· Works with popular PPT to Flash tools Camtasia, Articulate, ViewletCam and many others to convert the audio presentation created with Speech-Over to Flash.

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· Control the pronunciation of difficult words with the Pronunciation Editor. Uses standard phonetic alphabet notation. Teach the TTS voices to pronounce any word.

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· Add background sound or music to a slide to enhance the voice narration.

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· Easy access to tools for Acapela voices. The Acapela voices are provided with the powerful tools Phoneme Lexicon and Voice Manager. You can access those tools easily from the Speech-Over dialog.

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· Context dependent help.

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· Comes with two premium voices.

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· Add additional voices. Speech-Over will work with any SAPI standard voice installed on the machine.

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