Text Box: Text Box: Text to Speech Voices When you select the text-to-speech audio source for a narration clip, you can: Ø Modulate text to speech voice inflections with the dedicated SAPI editor. Ø Create the PowerPoint narration clip automatically from clip content text by a button click - without recording. Ø Change the PowerPoint narration content by editing the clip text - without recording. Ø Integrate multiple TTS voices and different languages in a presentation. Text Box: Alternative to Professional Voice-Overs Speech-Over is a cost-effective and flexible alternative to a professional voice-over narration. The table below shows the advantages of Speech-Over over the voice-over system.

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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 uses Tuval’s Voice Effect Marshalling technology to automatically deliver a synchronized PowerPoint narration by building it from individual clips linked to screen objects.

Ø Easy to Change Narration -  This simple modular approach makes it much easier 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 Eliminate Professional Voice-Overs -  Eliminate dependence on professional voice-overs with text-to-speech. Script authors produce and update narration themselves any time, any place - eliminating production delays.

Ø Interactive Narration -  A PowerPoint screen object talks whenever it is clicked on with Speech-Over’s interactive narration. Both sequential and interactive narration can play on a slide.

Ø Multiple Audio Sources - 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 - View the narrated presentation as a PowerPoint slide show or convert it into Flash for Web applications and e-learning  with popular PPT to Flash tools such as Camtasia™, Articulate® and ViewletCam™ .
Tip: It’s much easier to add and maintain narration with Speech-Over in PowerPoint and then convert to Flash than to add the narration afterwards with the PPT to Flash tools.

Ø Requirements: 

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

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

Important: Due to license restrictions, only the basic Microsoft TTS voices Mike and Mary are provided free with Speech-Over. Premium voices can be purchased separately at the link Add TTS Voices. The Speech-Over Premium Voice Package, includes premium voices packaged with Speech-Over.

Activity

Voice-Over

Speech-Over

Cost of sound track  in $ / minute

 

$85/min

 

$40/min

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 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 Training: Create PowerPoint-based narrated training courses fast and put them on-line - and update them easily. Managers prefer using Speech-Over’s more manageable, reliable and cost-effective narration system over professional voice-overs.

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.