![]() ![]() These voices are included with the software at no additional cost to you or your organization, and you can use them indefinitely, and for any quantity of eLearning you can produce. The other benefit of the NeoSpeech voices is the price. Your age, general health, and equipment used to record your voice can all affect the quality. If you recorded and compared your voice five years ago with a recording today, there would be differences that might prove distracting to your learners. Recordings made with one of the NeoSpeech voices five years ago will sound identical to a new recording made today. Consistency is the main benefit of all text-to-speech solutions. The main benefit of the NeoSpeech voices included with Captivate would be consistency. I've always been puzzled by these additional choices as I would have expected Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish due to the popularity of these languages. Included with Adobe Captivate are several English voices, a French voice, and a Korean voice. NeoSpeech has since become part of a company called ReadSpeaker. Included with Captivate is a text-to-speech add-in from a company called NeoSpeech. NeoSpeech/ReadSpeakerĬaptivate users might already know the text-to-speech included with the software from Adobe. Finally, I will discuss the solution we should all consider as a great alternative to all of these offerings. Also, I will share with you a completely separate text-to-speech solution from Amazon and a new startup in the text-to-speech technology that might amaze you. In this article, I'm going to look at the options for other voices from the same software provider that makes the Captivate text-to-speech voices some alternative voices from Microsoft. I've decided it was about time for me to revisit this topic and create an updated article about this topic. If you would like to see it, you can watch it here.īecause of that video, I get requests from Adobe Captivate users several times per month to make suggestions as to where users can get additional or alternative voices or languages for their eLearning courses. To date, this video has more views on YouTube than any single one of the 500 plus videos I've recorded since then. ![]() I recorded a simple video about Adobe Captivate 8's text-to-speech software. Over five years ago, I recorded a YouTube video that became a big part of my legacy when it comes to eLearning videos on YouTube. Will have the tutorial out to all of you very soon.Deciding On The Voice For Your eLearning Projects If you have already used Adobe Captivate 2017, you would have experienced the powerful Adobe Typekit Integration as well, the catalog of fonts which are tailored for web use will give your content that typographical edge on changing screen sizes. Once you start exploring this route for prototyping or storyboarding the possibilities become endless as there are new thoughts and ideas for web design and layouts coming through each day. Wireframes in elearning design is still being used very sparingly, I found this approach to be very visual when it came to creating content for mobile devices. ![]() Here are some screen shots of the preliminary design. I will be creating a short tutorial on how to create these frames and using the Fluid Boxes properties inspector to align and wrap objects to suit different device sizes. ![]() I used the concept of wireframes from web design to create web page like layouts which render well on various mobile devices. One of the recent webinars we did for the launch of Adobe Captivate 2017 was to create interesting layouts for mobile devices using Fluid boxes. As learners detach themselves from traditional learning methods, our attention turns to the use of mobile devices for consumption by learners.įluid boxes in Adobe Captivate 2017 give you the ability to place content in these intelligent containers and have Adobe Captivate resize and adapt the objects for any device size, the device specific preview menu (another new addition to this release) gives you complete control over previewing your content without having to hit the preview button. User experience has taken a front seat in design thinking and creation. ![]()
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