<div>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.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Recently I found this site <a href="http://www.paralink.com">www.paralink.com</a></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Worth a thought.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Johnathan</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2011 11:16, Julian Tenney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 May 2011 11:14</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>My bad. I wasn't very clear up front.<br>I was actually wanting to know what folks were using that integrated into Xerte desktop.<br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: <a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 11:08:29 +0100<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Heh? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 May 2011 10:52<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">What are you recording them with?<br><br>Hey, no circular arguments (or are you just gainsaying?) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: <a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:39:39 +0100<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">What are you recording them with?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Do you use ffmpeg? (you should)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 May 2011 10:37<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:108.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>Dating myself/force of habit.<br>The original RoboDemo I think you had to go back and add V/O which ended up as separate little files.<br>
What a piece of junk. And it re-emerged as.... Captivate!</span></p><div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center">
</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:108.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: <a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:28:53 +0100<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">As any other video then. A lot down to end users network capabilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:108.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 May 2011 10:28<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:144.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">voice over.</span></p><div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><div style="margin-left:36.0pt">
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: <a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:47:29 +0100<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">V/O?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">No mp4, no. Only flv. Mp4 in the new flash player stuff (as3.0), FP10.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:180.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 May 2011 13:48<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Latest screen cap recommendation?</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:180.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:180.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>No MP4 support right?<br>What's the latest best practices for screen cap with V/O for file size/resolution quality?<br><br>Dave</span></p>
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