Read the complete announcement here!
Thursday, December 11, 2014
SlideTalk unveils Credits and a new set of tools for marketing your video productions
Today we published a new version of SlideTalk with many functions to provide you more flexibility in your productions and more tools to help you manage and market your productions.
Read the complete announcement here!
Read the complete announcement here!
Friday, November 21, 2014
Manon, SlideTalk's new French voice, brings narration to a new level

At SlideTalk we are proud to add the new French voice Manon to our multilingual portfolio, already counting 79 voices in 26 languages.
Manon is a special voice as it has been developed in a different way and with a very clear gol in mind: bring narration with synthetic voices to a whole new level.
Here is as Acapela Group puts it:
It always begins the same way. A speaker records over several days a large corpus of very different texts, under the close scrutiny of our linguists. These recordings become the raw material necessary to create a synthetic voice and must cover all the possible sounds of a language. The recordings will then be sliced, tagged and organized into a voice database which, once integrated into the text-to-speech engine, will be able to transform text into speech, in real time.
But Manon’s voice is on a grander scale. We have made additional recordings, based on an enriched corpus of text. The voice database is therefore more comprehensive, allowing the text’s sense and meaning to be even better conveyed.
You can try the voice Manon right away on SlideTalk and hear for yourself what difference a voice can make.
Or you can listen to a sample of Manon here:
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Promoting an app via SlideTalk
Here is an example of a SlideTalk video promoting an app. Click on the image below to go to the video page.
Promote your own app using SlideTalk!
Promote your own app using SlideTalk!
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Slideshare to video with automatic voiceover
Monday, May 26, 2014
Talking videos for your micro-lectures: the 90-seconds tutorial
You have powerpoint presentations and you have slides, but how to publish them rapidly and efficiently as a engaging talking videos?
Spare 90 seconds of time from you busy day to watch this tutorial, that's all you need to know:
You can start creating your SlideTalk videos today at www.slidetalk.net. Each user gets possibility to publish 6 videos for free. Get started now!
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Spare 90 seconds of time from you busy day to watch this tutorial, that's all you need to know:
You can start creating your SlideTalk videos today at www.slidetalk.net. Each user gets possibility to publish 6 videos for free. Get started now!
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Genuine bilingual voice American English / Spanish English
Today we add two new voices to our portfolio:
Rod, American English male voice
Rodrigo, American Spanish male voice
What is special about these voices is that they were recorded by the same speaker, a truly bilingual American English / American Spanish voice talent, providing you therefore the possibility to switch between English and Spanish in the same presentation seamlessly, using the same voice.
Here is an example of a little demonstration video introducing the two voices. Click on the image to go to the video page:
Rod, American English male voice
Rodrigo, American Spanish male voice
What is special about these voices is that they were recorded by the same speaker, a truly bilingual American English / American Spanish voice talent, providing you therefore the possibility to switch between English and Spanish in the same presentation seamlessly, using the same voice.
Here is an example of a little demonstration video introducing the two voices. Click on the image to go to the video page:
Sunday, May 18, 2014
4 new background music tracks available on SlideTalk
We just added 4 new background music tracks to SlideTalk.
These tracks are available to all users to be selected as background music for the videos that you create with SlideTalk, to add more variations and moods. These new tracks can be chosen from the Create SlideTalk page, as with the other tracks. The complete list of all music tracks currebtly available at SlideTalk is available here.
The new tracks are:
These tracks come from the Incompetech website, check here for Creative Common attribution.
These tracks are available to all users to be selected as background music for the videos that you create with SlideTalk, to add more variations and moods. These new tracks can be chosen from the Create SlideTalk page, as with the other tracks. The complete list of all music tracks currebtly available at SlideTalk is available here.
The new tracks are:
These tracks come from the Incompetech website, check here for Creative Common attribution.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Sharing micro-lectures as talking videos, the rapid way
Micro lectures are a way of packaging knowledge on a specific and well-defined subject into small manageable pieces of information. When shared on the internet, micro lectures are typically shared as video.
Micro-lectures and micro-learning are getting more and more popular as we are becoming more and more aware of the limits of the attention span, particularly when speaking about lectures consumed as videos on a computer or portable device. Micro-lectures, by being short in nature and by focusing only on one well-defined topic or aspect of a topic, provide a way for learners to get exactly what they need, no more no less.
Micro-lectures, beside fitting the attention span, offer another advantage by focusing on one particular piece of information, allowing learners to choose what they need to learn and when to learn it. In other words, they offer what is often called just-in-time learning.
From a lecturer point of view, it is important that producing micro-lectures to be shared on the internet do not evolve into macro-project. Otherwise the equation becomes unsustainable. The work of compressing and structuring information on a subject so that it fits into few minutes is hard enough, there is no need to add additional complication in the technical realization of the project.
SlideTalk is a helpful resource in this sense, as it allows to build a talking video by just using slides or images and a script. The slides are converted into a video and the script into an automatic voiceover, and the resulting video is made available on YouTube, ready to be embedded and shared, or made available for download.
Here is how a typical authoring session with SlideTalk looks like, where you can see the slides and the script for the automatic voiceover being typed next to each picture:
And here are few examples of micro-lectures on different topics, created with SlideTalk:
Now it's your turn to start creating Micro-lectures, the rapid way!
Micro-lectures and micro-learning are getting more and more popular as we are becoming more and more aware of the limits of the attention span, particularly when speaking about lectures consumed as videos on a computer or portable device. Micro-lectures, by being short in nature and by focusing only on one well-defined topic or aspect of a topic, provide a way for learners to get exactly what they need, no more no less.
Micro-lectures, beside fitting the attention span, offer another advantage by focusing on one particular piece of information, allowing learners to choose what they need to learn and when to learn it. In other words, they offer what is often called just-in-time learning.
From a lecturer point of view, it is important that producing micro-lectures to be shared on the internet do not evolve into macro-project. Otherwise the equation becomes unsustainable. The work of compressing and structuring information on a subject so that it fits into few minutes is hard enough, there is no need to add additional complication in the technical realization of the project.
SlideTalk is a helpful resource in this sense, as it allows to build a talking video by just using slides or images and a script. The slides are converted into a video and the script into an automatic voiceover, and the resulting video is made available on YouTube, ready to be embedded and shared, or made available for download.
Here is how a typical authoring session with SlideTalk looks like, where you can see the slides and the script for the automatic voiceover being typed next to each picture:
And here are few examples of micro-lectures on different topics, created with SlideTalk:
Now it's your turn to start creating Micro-lectures, the rapid way!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Building talking videos as a way to learn
The way to the brain is through the heart and senses
From the learner’s perspective, to get involved in learning means to abandon the passive role of the learner and to adopt an active role instead, by engaging with creativity, senses and emotions into the topic. The passion and the creativity put into the learning activity will help making this activity becoming a part of the learner's own experience, helping the learner in remembering and understanding the topic.
From the teacher or mentor perspective, a successful involvement of learners could be expressed as reaching the brain by activating the heart and the senses.

Using Talking Video as a learning experience
The presentation is an interesting format as it stimulates learners to focus on several aspects, and developing related skills:
- Structure of the presentation, which helps the learner to structure her own knowledge on the topic
- Conciseness of the material presented, which helps the learner to sort and prioritize her knowledge on the topic
- Graphical aspects, which helps the learner to focus on analogical and associative thinking connecting the new knowledge with preexisting knowledge
- Provide a script for the presentation, which helps the learner to get a higher view over her own knowledge by making other skills (structure, choice of material and graphical aspects) cooperate as a single functional unit
SlideTalk is designed to hide all technical difficulties from the learner, helping to keep focus on creating, structuring and presenting content and removing distracting technical details.
More on SlideTalk as authoring tool for talking videos
- An introduction to SlideTalk and its different application areas.
- A tutorial on how to turn PowerPoint presentations into talking videos.
- An educational video about the theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner and its applications and implications to education:
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
2nd April 2014: World Autism Awareness Day
Tomorrow, 2nd April 2014 is the World Autism Awareness Day. We celebrate it by sharing an article we published one year ago on elearningindustry.com about Talking Social Stories, a device used to prapare children with autism about what is planned ahead to reduce discomfort, distress and conflicts.
The following SlideTalk video exemplifies Talking Social Stories by explaining what happens during a car drive and why is it important to wear seat belts. Click on the picture to open the video page.
You can create your own Talking Social Story video at slidetalk.net. Try today!
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Market your App with a talking video - free template included
You have built the world greatest app and you have published it on the Store. Now it is time to start market your application, time to show to the whole world how great is your app.
Talking videos are a very rapid and effective way to provide an overview or a tutorial for your app.
With SlideTalk you do not need to set up a big project or use a microphone to create a talking video, you only need to capture pictures (for instance screenshots or scenarios) and provide a text script. SlideTalk will convert the script into an automatic voice-over, and it will add the music that you choose and publish the video on YouTube for you, ready to be shared online.
This is a straightforward and efficient way to promote your app.
Here you can watch an example of a promotional talking video for a Windows Phone app created using SlideTalk.
To create a similar talking video to promote your app do as follow:
Talking videos are a very rapid and effective way to provide an overview or a tutorial for your app.
With SlideTalk you do not need to set up a big project or use a microphone to create a talking video, you only need to capture pictures (for instance screenshots or scenarios) and provide a text script. SlideTalk will convert the script into an automatic voice-over, and it will add the music that you choose and publish the video on YouTube for you, ready to be shared online.
This is a straightforward and efficient way to promote your app.
Here you can watch an example of a promotional talking video for a Windows Phone app created using SlideTalk.
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To create a similar talking video to promote your app do as follow:
- Download and edit this PowerPoint template file. Then edit it by replacing the framed images with your own screenshots and modifying the text and comments for each slide.
- Login to SlideTalk or create a new account using the "Log In" link here above. Each user gets the possibility to publish 6 SlideTalk videos for free.
- Create a new SlideTalk video and choose upload of your edited PowerPoint file.
- Edit, preview and produce your SlideTalk video. The SlideTalk video is automatically published and ready to be shared.
Click here for a short but comprehensive tutorial on how to create talking videos with SlideTalk.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Updated tutorial on how to turn a presentation into a talking video
Here is our refreshed and updated tutorial on how to turn PowerPoint presentations or collection of pictures into a talking video:
Enjoy it!
Enjoy it!
Friday, March 7, 2014
For the younger ones, learning to count! ...in several languages
Have a look at this playlist created with SlideTalk, and learn to count in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Swedish!
Are you curious about how to get the text-to-speech to whistle and laugh? Stay tuned, we'll publish some information soon...
Are you curious about how to get the text-to-speech to whistle and laugh? Stay tuned, we'll publish some information soon...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Music moods now available at slidetalk.net
Make your talking videos even more engaging and entertaining by adding music moods.
See an example of usage for each of the music moods in this playlist:
To add a music mood to your SlideTalk, just select a music mood in the Create or Edit pages:
See an example of usage for each of the music moods in this playlist:
To add a music mood to your SlideTalk, just select a music mood in the Create or Edit pages:
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Longing for music? Here is a teaser for you
We are experimenting with the option of adding background music to SlideTalk videos. Here is a playlist of videos showcasing different music moods:
What do you think? Let us know!
What do you think? Let us know!
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