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In today's world, multimedia can provide a more engaging experience for learners. You can embed your own audio, link to pages off-site, or pull a YouTube video into your course. You can use feature-rich quizzes that allow you to assess your students, or provide them with tools and feedback to test their own knowledge. All these require standard procedures and cutting-edge tools. Selecting tools to make multimedia integration in Moodle faster, simpler, and more precise is not child's play. This book provides you with everything you need to include sound, video, animation, and more in your Moodle courses. You'll develop Moodle courses that you are proud of, and that your students enjoy. This book covers integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. It will take you through these elements in detail where you will learn how to create, edit, and integrate these elements into Moodle. The book is written around the design of an online course called "Music for Everyday Life" using Moodle, where teachers and students create, share, and discuss multimedia elements. You will also learn how to use Web 2.0 tools to create images, audio, and video and then we will take a look at the web applications that allow easy creation, collaboration, and sharing of multimedia elements. Finally, you will learn how to interact with students in real-time using a particular online phone service and a desktop sharing application.
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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
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Preface

Converting text to speech using Voki


Converting text to speech is a way that screen readers use to help visually impaired people to use the Web. It can also be used to add audio to forums, for example, if we don't have a microphone available, or we can even create avatars with different looks and different voices. We will use it in a roleplay game in a forum by using Voki in one of our course modules—What's good music—where students will have to create a character with its own voice that gives arguments to defend a music genre.

Voki (http://www.voki.com) allows us to create avatars that can talk either with our own voice or by converting text to speech.

The voices that are available in Voki are not perfect if we want to have something very formal, but it can be really fun for students (for example, matching a silly voice to a serious character).

To start using Voki, we have to create a new account and then, on the Voki For My Site tab, click on the Create A New Voki button:

We can customize...

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