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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

· TTS Overview and NLP Quality

· DSP and TTS

Speech-Over News

Version 4.0 w/Paul & Kate

SpeechOver Professional 4.0 is now available with NeoSpeech Paul and Kate TTS voices.

Speech-Over Forum

The Speech-Over Forum is now available.

Speech-Over Samples

View sample presentations in different formats and sites.

Acapela Virtual Speaker

Tuval is now reselling Acapela Virtual Speaker

Customer Statements

“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
System Engineering Manager
Worldwide Engineering Otis Elevator Company

“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,
Head – VLSI Design,
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.

Features

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.

· 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.

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

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

· 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.

Subtitles

· Create subtitles for each narration clip.

· Long subtitles scroll along bottom.

Multiple Audio Sources

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

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.

· Edit existing individual narration clips with the Edit dialog.

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

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

· Undo previous commands

· 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

 PowerPoint Notes

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

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

Voice Schemes

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

More...

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

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

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

· 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.

· Context dependent help.

· Comes with two premium voices.

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

Benefits

¨ Add - without any microphone recording.

¨ Synchronize - with PowerPoint slide animations automatically. Projects the learning impact of a live presentation.

¨ Professional Voices - uses the most natural and accurate text to speech voices from NeoSpeech and Acapela.

¨ Faster development - by removing the professional voice talent from the workflow.

¨ Easy - voices are generated and updated by simple text entry. Keep presentations continuously up to date.

¨ Economical - less costly than studio recording of voice talents.

Features

¨ SAPI voice editor lets you introduce delays, change pitch, speed and volume and add emphasis within the flow of the speech.

¨ Subtitles are automatically generated and displayed in coordination with the narration.

¨ Pronunciation Editor, background music, PowerPoint  notes generator and much more ....

¨ Bundled with premium text-to-speech voices from NeoSpeech and Acapela with commercial license

¨ Integrates with Camtasia, Captivate, Articulate, ViewletCam and many other e-learning and training tools.

"Really pleased with the performance and quality output of Speech-Over, and how easy it is to use." 
Mark Hoefle, Lead Courseware Developer,
Check Point Software Technologies

“Speech-Over has proven to be an effective and economical way for Otis to produce training material.”
Bryan Leach
System Engineering Manager, Worldwide Engineering
Otis Elevator Company

Speech-Over Professional is a PowerPoint plug-in that lets authors and developers add and sync professional voice-over narration quickly and easily in e-learning, training and web presentations without any voice talent or microphone recording. Just enter any narration text and natural text-to-speech voices will record it automatically any time any place, reducing production costs,

speeding up the development process and simplifying maintenance.

For business, government and education.

Join leading US corporations that have adopted Speech-Over Professional for developing their training and e-learning courses.

View the concepts demo below and the features demo and sign up for a free trial today.