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Ø Replaces Costly Voice-Over Recording - the TTS voice narration produced by Speech-Over replaces professional studio voice-over recording costing $80 per minute of narration and eliminates scheduling bottlenecks. Script authors can now produce and update narration by themselves any time, any place - eliminating production delays.

Ø Easy to Change Narration -  Working with narration clips makes it  easy to change PowerPoint voice narration on a slide. Using Speech-Over’s powerful editing features, authors can manipulate the PowerPoint narration on the clip level, reordering the clips and moving them between objects. With TTS voices, they change the narration by just editing the narration script.

Ø Synchronized PowerPoint Narration  - PowerPoint lets authors add voice narration to a slide, but doesn't let them synchronize the PowerPoint narration with the slide’s visual animations. Speech-Over’s Voice Effect Marshalling technology automatically delivers a synchronized PowerPoint narration by building it from individual clips linked to screen objects.

Ø Interactive Narration -  With Speech-Over’s interactive narration option, a PowerPoint screen object talks whenever it is clicked on. Great for interactive quizzes.

Ø Complete Audio Solution - Authors can use microphone recording, audio files and realistic text-to-speech voices in combination in a PowerPoint presentation - even on the same slide.

Ø Clear Screen and Add More Content -  The amount of text you can put on a PowerPoint slide without crowding is limited. Move vital text content to narration text while actually increasing the amount of content you can add to the presentation. This important feature lets PowerPoint store and present valuable enterprise content.

Ø Convert to Flash - The narrated presentations produced by Speech-Over can be converted into Flash for Web applications and e-learning  with popular PPT to Flash tools such as Camtasia™, Articulate® and ViewletCam™ .

Ø Requirements: 

Speech-Over: Microsoft®  Windows®  XP or Vista®, Microsoft Office®  XP or 2003, Microsoft .NET Framework® 2.0, TTS Voices SAPI 5 compatible.

Speech-Over2007: Microsoft®  Windows® XP or Vista®, Microsoft Office® 2007, Microsoft .NET Framework® 2.0, TTS Voices SAPI 5 compatible. 

Products: For professional applications, the Speech-Over Plus product, which features a premium quality voice from Acapela Group, is recommended. For general applications, you may want to use Speech-Over, which comes with the standard Microsoft voices. Premium voices can be added to either product; they can be purchased separately at the link Add TTS Voices.

Activity

Voice-Over

Speech-Over

Cost of sound track  in $ / minute

$85/min (cost of voice & studio)

$40/min (cost of author’s time)

Ease of updating

Have to re-record, integrate changes, and resynchronize

Just edit text and regenerate.

Multiple voices



Different languages

Have to pay for each voice and integrate and synchronize them

Multiple voices automatically integrated and synchronized.

Easy to use different languages

Making deadlines

Dependent on scheduling of voice and studio

Can use any time, any place

Speech-Over at Work

Ø Training: 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.

Ø Small Business Presentations: Excellent for small 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.

Ø 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.

Ø Marketing: Add a voice narration to enliven a PowerPoint marketing or business presentation.

Ø 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.

Ø 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.

Ø Corporate Communications: Communicate with narrated PowerPoint presentations to express information, plans or ideas.

Ø 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.