YAKiToMe for Text-to-Speech

I haven’t had much time to test this out yet… but, there is one feature of YAKiToMe that might make this an interesting addition to your eLearning tool set: easy podcasting of your converted files.

Check out this audio file that was converted from text of my previous post on Webconferencing Benefits.

As I explore this tool more, I’ll add an update.

Text to Voice with Read the Words

I stumbled across this nifty little tool today. It’s called Read the Words and it’s a web application that reads text you give it and outputs an mp3 file that you can download or embed on your site. I used it input the RSS feed of this blog and got back separate mp3 files for each of last 5 posts and it only took about 1 minute.

Here’s the recording of my post on xTimeline. Unfortunately, it not only read the xTimeline post, it also read all my other RSS feeds on the page on either side of that post (in other words, it didn’t distinguish between the columns. However, I also just copied and pasted the text from this post to be read and got back this recording which turned out fine.

You can also type in text, upload word documents or PDF files or even put in the URL of a web site you want to be read. This tool would be useful for anyone who needs to create audio files for their visually impaired students or who simply want to provide content in audio for those learners who prefer to listen to learn.

On first look, it seems like this tool has some potential, strange RSS reading notwithstanding. LOL.