Speech-Over 2.3 Makes it Easy to Add Perfectly-Timed Voices in Animated PowerPoint® Presentations for Multi-Media Education and Training
Tuval Software Industries has announced the release of Version 2.3 of Speech-Over™, an innovative software application for quickly and easily adding perfectly-timed voices in animated PowerPoint® presentations. The new version can use any audio source - microphone recording, prerecorded files and realistic text-to-speech (TTS) voices. Voice-empowered presentations convert to Flash for e-learning. The software has a wide variety of applications in education and training.
Petach Tikva, Israel (PRWEB) July 24, 2007 -- Tuval Software Industries has announced the release of Version 2.3 of Speech-Over™, an innovative software application for quickly and easily adding perfectly-timed voices in animated PowerPoint® presentations. The new version can use any audio source - microphone recording, prerecorded files and realistic text-to-speech (TTS) voices. Voice-empowered presentations convert to Flash for e-learning. The software has a wide variety of applications in education and training.
PowerPoint's animations are so cool. If only there were a quick and easy way to synchronize a voice track with them, teachers and trainers could use their PowerPoint to create talking animated presentations that would be great for learning, training and other interesting things.
Good news: Now there is a way.
Speech-Over, first-of-a-kind software that works in PowerPoint design mode and integrates with PPT functions, lets you quickly and easily add voice clips directly to animated objects for a perfectly timed voice track. Just select an object, and a simple dialog turns any audio source - microphone recording, prerecorded file or text-to-speech voice - into a media effect that speaks when the object is animated. Preview the results immediately in slide show mode.
Making changes is also easy. Speech-Over's voice editing commands change the voice track without re-recording: they move modular voice clips from one object to another and reorder the voice clips on a slide. Re-record only those voice clips that require it.
For applications like in-house training and on-line courses, use Speech-Over with realistic text-to-speech voices to achieve extra savings, speed and flexibility. Add and change text-to-speech voices as fast as you can write and change text. These voices eliminate the bottlenecks of recording and human voice-overs and are ideal for products or services that are updated frequently.
Speech-Over can also add interactive voices that speak when you click on an object -- very useful for quizzes.
Experience voice-empowered presentations by PowerPoint slide show, or convert them to Flash for e-learning with standard PPT to Flash converters like Camtasia™, Articulate® and ViewletCam™.
Applications
The software has many applications, especially in education and training for rapidly and easily developing and maintaining multi-media lessons, courses and training units.
A few real-world examples:
| | - University Courses - Charles Nippert, an engineering professor at Widener University in Pennsylvania, uses Speech-Over to provide on-line demonstrations for his students quickly and economically. Professor Nippert was enthusiastic: "Your software is terrific! I am revising an on-line course and this is just what I need."
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| | - High School Special Education - Bjarne Lund Henneberg, a high school educator at the Emmerske Efterskole in Tonder, Denmark, pioneered using Speech-Over to add voices (in Danish) to his driving theory course for young people with reading difficulties. Bjarne remarked that "It's easy to work with, and my students all tell me it helped them get their licenses."
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| | - Industrial Training - Daniel Moreno, complex maintenance trainer at Tyson Fresh Meats in Holcomb, Kansas uses the software in training employees, saying that "This very useful, convenient and efficient software makes my job easier."
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Availability
Speech-Over includes the basic Microsoft TTS voices free, and it is also available in the Speech-Over Premium Voice Package, which includes the NeoSpeech premium voices Paul and Kate. It requires Microsoft® Windows XP, Office XP or newer, Microsoft .NET Framework® 2.0, and SAPI 5-compatible voices. The Office 2007 Beta version is now available.
It can be purchased on-line at the Tuval Software Industries website www.speechover.com or by sending your order by E-mail.
To learn more about this truly remarkable product, visit the company website to view an on-line demo and download a free trial. Tuval Software Industries -- www.speechover.com
Tuval Software Industries, Ltd, based in Petach Tikvah, Israel and privately held, was founded in 1990 and specializes in software tool development and technical communications. The company developed and marketed SEELA, a tool for reverse engineering and documentation of large-scale software systems, and has recently focused on applications of speech technology.
Media Contact:
Joel Harband
Phone: 972 3 9220186
Site: www.speechover.com
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