This is another prototype of CALI lessons as podcasts. In this one, I used a text-to-speech application and AT&T Natural Voices (one for the narrator and a different one for the instructor) instead of my own recorded voice. I think it sounds pretty good, but I plan to listen to it several more times to see if the "newness" of listening to a machine-generated voice – however good- goes away.
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This is the same audio file, but I added some page-change sound effects – just to see if it adds anything or if its too distracting. This is very subtle stuff – have to walk a thin line between giving the listener audio context and jarring them out of the zone of listening and learning.
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The podcast linked to this post is a manually created simple prototype of my idea of CALI lessons as podcasts. I simply read the portions into Audacity using my laptops on-board microphone – nothing fancy here.
It does demonstrate some of the ideas that I was thinknig about . There is some intro music and some audio-continuity text that is supposed to give the student context as they listen to the lesson. There are pauses after questions as wel.
I have some other ideas that I will work on, but this gives us something to chew on. I have ordered text to speech software, but with the AT&T NaturalVoices, it comes on 2 CDs and was not available for download.
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