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The introduction of eLearning has helped educators facilitate a virtual classroom experience designed to accommodate distant learners. Moreover, this has opened the doors and opportunities for flexible and distributed learning environments for students and facilitators across the globe. Â The continuous developments in the eLearning environment have enabled educational institutions to enhance the richness of […]
Text-to-speech (TTS) applications aid to render digital content into speech. In an instance, when the reader highlights a sentence, it is translated into spoken word. Try it! Select something on this article and listen to it. Whatever TTS features the website has enabled or your device has installed, the basic fundamental remains the same. This […]
The idea of speech synthesizers was first explored around 200 years ago. In 1779 Russian Professor Christian Kratzenstein invented an apparatus that artificially produced vowel sounds. Another invention followed in 1791 when Wolfgang Von Kempelen introduced his “Acoustic-Mechanical Speech Machine”. This machine produced single sounds, but also a number of sound combinations. Different machines were […]
Journalist Nas Campanella has been reading the news for ABC, and Triple J News to an audience of approximately 1.9 million people. What most don’t know though, is that Campanella has been blind since infancy. According to a Broadsheet Sydneyâs report issued in 2014 about Campanella, âthe 26-year-old Sydneysider has been blind since she was […]
I must confess to generally hating sections entitled âhow to read this bookâ and so I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please! Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful. â Paul Taylor, Text-To-Speech Synthesis Websites need to be able to produce […]
An open source collaboration aims to add Text-to-speech functionality to Wikipedia. Essentially, the whole Wikipedia website is designed to make collaboration easy (aka Wiki). It is now the biggest open source knowledge base collaboratively written by the people who use it. The collaborationâs goal is to allow the site to read out the text to […]
Before, developers had to build their own text-to-speech functionality in their own app. Now, this feature is available worldwide on most devices. This saves hours of needlessly creating and editing audio files. The most recent update to the Google text-to-speech feature is the addition of high-quality male and female voices in US and UK English. […]
Try this; using Chrome on a PC, Mac or Linux, search Google for âResponsive Voice’ and listen to your speakers. Â https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+responsive+voice Like it? Take a search term that you rank #1 for in Google and your message can be spoken while the search results are displayed on the Google page. Imagine the possibilities […]
Alternatives Prior to this breakthrough there were two alternatives. Â The first was professionally recorded narration, which of course is much better and more realistic, however it costs much more money, involves difficult editing, needs a âone offâ recording and is more time consuming. Â The second alternative is using a text to speech engine to […]
This page include the latest version of the ResponsiveVoice WordPress plugin changelog. 1.7.4 Fix API Key include logic when the plugin is first installed Update “Tested up to” for upcoming WordPress 6.0 release 1.7.3 Upgrade to ResponsiveVoice 1.8.2 1.7.2 Update “Tested up to” for upcoming WordPress release 1.7.1 Upgrade to ResponsiveVoice 1.8.1 1.7.0 The plugin […]