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Speech-Over Studio is a software application that can create a professional-sounding narration for a PowerPoint® presentation based on text input only. The choice of the name “Speech-Over” was inspired by “voice-over”, the off-screen recorded narrations in the movies. Microphone recording and audio file import can be used as well. |
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What is Speech-Over Studio? |
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Speech-Over Studio runs in PowerPoint XP, 2003 or 2007. Speech-Over Studio runs as an add-in to PowerPoint (in Office XP) running under Windows XP and appears in the PowerPoint menu bar. |
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What versions of PowerPoint does Speech-Over Studio support? |
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The Speech-Over Studio help file contains a Hello World tutorial which lets you create a presentation that says ‘Hello World” in just a few minutes. You can also view a talking tutorial presentation in which Paul explains the basics. The commands are simple and intuitive and the learning curve is short. |
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How do I get started with Speech-Over Studio? |
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Speech-Over does that for you. The narration is automatically synchronized with the PowerPoint screen object for which you entered the text. When the screen object is animated you hear the narration for that object. |
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Can I synchronize the narration with objects on the PowerPoint screen? |
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No, products that use Microsoft Agent Technology, for example Vox Proxy™, also use text-based speech but there the speech is associated with cartoon characters that appear independently on the PowerPoint screen. Speech-Over Studio associates text-based speech directly with the PowerPoint screen objects. |
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Does Speech-Over Studio use Microsoft Agent Technology? |
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You just select the screen object, hit the Add or Edit button and the Add Narration Clip dialog opens. Enter text by either typing it in, or you can dictate the text into a microphone and Speech-Over Studio’s voice recognition will enter the text on the dialog where you can edit it if you wish. |
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How do I enter the text for each screen object? |
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Installing Speech-Over Studio is easy: simply double-click the downloaded .exe file. When you purchase the product you enter the registration code during installation, making sure your Internet connection is open. |
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How do I install Speech-Over Studio? |
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Can other people hear the narrations without buying Speech-Over Studio? |
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Support is by E-mail at support@speechover.com. Response time to support calls is one business day. |
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How do I get support? |
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You can convert the narrated presentation into Flash or WMV File that streams on the web with popular PPT-to-Flash tools like TechSmith® Camtasia (see the web demo). In that case you only need your browser to view the presentation. You can also convert the voice-empowered presentation to a SCORM-compliant course that can be uploaded to Blackboard and other LMS systems using Camtasia and other popular tools. |
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Yes, the narrations use standard PowerPoint features and can be heard by anyone who has PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer. |
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You install computer voices like any other software product. Speech-Over Studio works with the SAPI-standard high-quality voices available from vendors. Speech-Over comes with the free basic Microsoft voices Mike and Mary. Premium voices can be purchased on this site - see Premium Voices. The Speech-Over Voice Package includes the premium voices NeoSpeech Paul and Kate or AT&T Mike and Crystal. |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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- Microsoft® Windows XP - TTS voices must be SAPI 5 compatible |
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What are the system requirements? |
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Where do I get computer voices? |
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Can I run the presentation on the web and hear the narration? |
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Narrations are generated from text input by text-to-speech synthesis using a SAPI speech engine. Read more about text-to-speech. |
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How does Speech-Over Studio create narrations without recording them? |
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To contact us: |
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Phone: +972 3 9220186 E-mail: info@speechover.com |
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Yes. If your presentations already have animation effects, Speech-Over will add narration media effects and subtitles to the existing animation effects. For new presentations, or ones not animated, Speech-Over adds the animations as well. |
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Can I use Speech-Over with my existing PowerPoint presentations? |
