Sunday Sit, Sip, and “Sync” ~ 6-3-2012

…provides a quick and easy way to add voice to presentations.

HelloSlide.com is free and easy.

This site supports both Keynote and PowerPoint presentations, as long as they are uploaded in Pdf format.

The voice is added to your slide, and while it is “robotic”, the nice feature is that it can be quickly edited through typing, while recorded voice editing must be done with “retakes”. The other advantage to the “text-to-speech” option is the ability to collaborate. With student presentations, they can still work in groups and each member can provide ‘input”.

A paid membership will provide additional features that include translations into twenty other languages. An “educational account” reduces the cost by 50% and would be worth considering for a school with a large ESL population.

Below is a “quick presentation” I made, and found that the site is very easy and intuitive to manipulate.

The best part is that, even though the voice is “robotic”, it does seem to pause and add inflections in just the right places. Plus, the “English” English added a “bit o’ class” to our personal invitation. I bet you didn’t even know that we had an English “Roadie”.

And yes, you can “share” your presentations with a link or “embed” code, or on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.