You didn’t receive an email with a PDF of the webinar slides before the webinar began (please check your junk email first). You haven’t received a link to a recording of the webinar within five business days after the final webinar session (please check your junk email first). For general webinar concerns or questions, contact [email protected]. • Making computers talk by simply writing is as revolutionary as recording speech as written words; it simply goes the other way. • The alternative to text-to-speech is an audio recording which will have some combination of the following issues: • Poor recording quality (too loud, too soft) • Background noise (breath noises) • Poor voice quality (accents, 'um') • Inconsistent (multiple speakers) • Difficult to edit • Difficult to maintain or modify later • Text-to-speech voices are now so good, you may struggle to tell what is real and what is not. For example, listen to. SlideSpeech offers three voices from, or you can use or, such as this. • Text is searchable. Video is not. Every word of every slide of public SlideSpeech presentations can be found using. • Text can be easily translated. Here is (up arrow to toggle). • Text can be edited by multiple people over time, so it supports and continual improvement. What does SlideSpeech require for use on the web? • SlideSpeech requires an up-to-date web browser, such as. • If using Google Chrome, you may want to install the to add SlideSpeech Convert to your Google Drive presentation menu. • Safari and Internet Explorer may work. If presentations do not play properly in your browser, try installing the. What does SlideSpeech require for use on mobile devices? • SlideSpeech has native apps for, Android ( and ). • Keynote on the iPad can be used to create presentations to send to SlideSpeech. What does SlideSpeech require for use on a desktop/laptop offline? • Presentations can be prepared for upload to SlideSpeech using a variety of software. The system can convert presentation files, PDF files and image files (.png and.jpg format). • Presentations with speaker notes: • • Impress from or or • If using Impress, you may want to install the to allow use of voices on your PC. • Keynote with presenter notes (via Share and Print > Email Presentation > PowerPoint to [email protected]). For more details. What is the best way to make a talking presentation? • Talking presentations should use images or large text and very short scripts (one or two sentences per slide). It is much better to think of your presentation as a movie rather than as a document. • A quick way to obtain an image is to take a screenshot (particularly just the important part of the screen you want) using the utilities available for your operating system (,, ). When you paste the image into your presentation and add speaker notes, you effectively talk about what you saw on the screen. • For Chromebook users, is Ctrl+page flipper. For partial screenshots use Ctrl+Shift+page flipper. What languages are available? • The SlideSpeech online editor allows mixing the three voices available from: US English female, UK English male and German male. You can use different voices on a slide by highlighting the text to be spoken with the selected voice and then selecting the voice from the Voices tab of the editor.
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