Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Voki: A free, animated avatar

According to the voki page: http://www.voki.com/

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Evaluation of the product:

I have made a simple animated avator. The system supports many different language, so I can type in Chinese. The system generates voice based on my input text. The graphics are attractive and I think this tool can be integrated to teaching materials for children or teenagers.

3 comments:

  1. This is an interesting and attractive tool for teaching and learning. Thanks for sharing it with us!

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  2. i have tried this tool and believe this tool could arous student's interest, however some modification might needed as the pronounciation is not very accurate.

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  3. Yes, but I think it is a technical limitation. According to my knowledge, text-to-speech technology is still not quite mature. The speech converted from text is still looks un-natural on some of the sentenses.

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