[Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?

[Kemp Johnathan]

In some projects I have wanted to use voice over or to include audio
narration. One project I created had pages with images of freemind mind maps
in it, with hot spots over the entries in the mind map. When you clicked on
the hot spot a narration commenced related to that entry in the mind map.

The problem I hit was wanting consistent voicing that I could reproduce
again and again. I found my own voice rather unsuited to voice over (had I
been a silent movie star the introduction of the talkies would have probably
ended my career!). As a solution I turned to using text to speech software
to create the narrations. Originally I tried out State from xtranormal, but
that was a while ago and it requires installing software that did much more
than I needed.

Recently I found this site www.paralink.com
They offer a free text to speech service and the two voices are the best I
have come across to date which provide free access. I think there is a limit
of 1000 characters per translation. Whilst the site offers the ability to
provide a link to embed your text in a web page I think they retain the
audio file. However it is possible to set up your PCs audio mixer to feed
the web pages text to speech reading directly into a program like audacity.
This enables you to save the reading as an mp3 and then process it if
required e.g. to normalise it or slow it down slightly.

I remember doing a project a while back with voice recordings from several
young people. A great idea until the time came when the project needed
updating and the young people where no longer available.

Worth a thought.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 3 May 2011 11:16, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I’ve been using Jing – quick and simple, but no editing. Shoot and you’re
> done. Others using Camtasia, which offer much more fiddling after the
> recording. Often, it’s better to jump out to a page with the screen capture
> in it than try and include it in the project, because of real estate issues.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 03 May 2011 11:14
>
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
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>
> My bad. I wasn't very clear up front.
> I was actually wanting to know what folks were using that integrated into
> Xerte desktop.
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> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 11:08:29 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
>
> Heh?
>
>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 03 May 2011 10:52
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
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>
>
> >What are you recording them with?
>
> Hey, no circular arguments (or are you just gainsaying?)
>
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> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:39:39 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
>
> What are you recording them with?
>
>
>
> Do you use ffmpeg? (you should)
>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 03 May 2011 10:37
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
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>
>
>
> Dating myself/force of habit.
> The original RoboDemo I think you had to go back and add V/O which ended up
> as separate little files.
> What a piece of junk. And it re-emerged as.... Captivate!
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> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:28:53 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
>
> As any other video then. A lot down to end users network capabilities.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 03 May 2011 10:28
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
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>
>
> voice over.
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>
> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:47:29 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?
>
> V/O?
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>
>
> No mp4, no. Only flv. Mp4 in the new flash player stuff (as3.0), FP10.
>
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>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave Burnett
> *Sent:* 02 May 2011 13:48
> *To:* Xerte list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Latest screen cap recommendation?
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>
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>
> No MP4 support right?
> What's the latest best practices for screen cap with V/O for file
> size/resolution quality?
>
> Dave
>
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