Oslo (NO), July 2009 - Edvantage group, an eLearning company and Managed Learning Service provider, has announced the launch of its unique voiceover function for CourseBuilder - a content authoring tool -, CBVoice. The capabilities of CBVoice revolutionise working with sound in eLearning development.
This is the first time an authoring tool has been fully integrated with voice synthesis to enable users to automatically generate and add high-quality synthetic voiceovers to eLearning courses without the need to manually record and implement sound files, cutting costs and speeding up course creation.
CBVoice allows working with complete and up-to-date voiceovers in any course, providing the full audiovisual experience for users from development and testing phases to the final version. Authors can easily maintain full control of hundreds of sound files in multiple languages with the latest version-handling capabilities, automatic file management, and naming functions.
"This is the first time an authoring tool has been available with integrated, advanced voice synthesis functionality. It shows the innovative and customer-oriented focus of our SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions", says Pal Brevik, Executive Vice President SaaS Technologies, Edvantage group.
"As well as providing additional quality to the entire development process, CBVoice enables you to speed up the process by reducing the amount of time spent working on audio files, both in review cycles and when implementing final sound", says Sven Ove Sjølyst, Vice President CourseBuilder. "What we are most proud of is that CBVoice is so easy to use: anyone can now add full synthetic voiceovers to their courses in a matter of minutes!"
CBVoice uses licensed, world-class speech-synthesis technology from the Acapela Group, and currently supports 24 languages with multiple voices available for most.
