Wiki-to-Speech Workshop Public Class

Virginia -
Happy to help. Getting text-to-speech to work in Italian (and other unicode-based texts/languages) is part of the development plan. Here was an early effort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEuk5StTsJI
Regards,
John Graves

Thanks everyone. I'll make some how to videos ...

Hello John,
Sorry to say that I can't launch the class page. When I press the button I keep on being sent back to this workshop page.
However, I have looked at the video and presentation and read the Wiki-Speech page and look forward to enjoying working with Wiki to Speech as much as I enjoyed working in the past (and still do) with Powerpoint, MSAgent and commercial TTS programs.

Hi,
Sorry it is too late for me.

Halina

I'll try to watch the workshop, but I have a meeting right before it that I don't know if it will finish on time. :(

PREREQUISITES for the Workshop:
Your priorities should be
1/ download the Wiki-to-Speech .zip file appropriate for your platform
2/ watch the YouTube video (at least the start of it)
3/ try the slide show version (again, at least the first few slides)
4/ sort out your group assignment and open and get ready to edit your group's Etherpad
5/ join the workshop!

Finally, along with the links below (for completeness), here are the actual presentation slides with the voice over script in the Speaker Notes for each slide:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110909/wiziq_workshop.odp

Here is the first 30 slides of the workshop presentation in a .zip file.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110909/wiziq_workshop.zip

Download and unzip this file and open wiziq_workshop.htm in your browser to see and hear the slides.

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can open wiziq_workshop.htm directly from
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110909/wiziq_workshop.htm
but you may experience delays as each slide loads.

Finally, if you want to watch the slide show as a video, it is available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EdPc-bScg

New, updated versions of the Wiki-to-Speech software for Mac and Windows capable of generating videos have been posted for this workshop at
http://code.google.com/p/wiki-to-speech/downloads/list

The Mac version is marked "OSX" and the Windows version is marked "win". The latest versions are at the top of the list.

Please download the appropriate version if you run Mac or Windows. If you run Linux, please download the Python source code.

Workshop Group assignments are also available on this wiki page:
http://code.google.com/p/wiki-to-speech/wiki/WorkshopGroups20110910

Please take a moment to fill out this form with basic information about yourself and the computer system you are using for this workshop:
http://bit.ly/ogmxXD

Thanks!

In this workshop, we are going to make Wiki-to-Speech scripts collaboratively. The scripts will be played in class (whatever you type into your script the computer will speak). As an exercise, we will teach about The Elements http://periodictable.com/ with each student preparing one question with answers/responses for a different element.

We will work in groups of ten. Please find your group (A/B/C/D/E) from this Etherpad:
http://ietherpad.com/wikitospeech-workshop-20110910-groups

I will try to attend.

Want to help create the content for this workshop? Wiki-to-Speech is designed for collaborative content creation, just like Wikipedia. But we can use something even easier than a wiki: Etherpad. Here are the first 10 slides of the workshop in Etherpad-to-Speech format: http://ietherpad.com/wikitospeech-workshop-20110910

That script produces a slide show
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110905/wiziq_workshop.htm

and a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfMFqVGgYKs

Please modify the script freely.

Here is a YouTube link for the one minute Wiki-to-Speech video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmjRUCwnfc0

For a one minute intro to the new presentation direct to video capability of Wiki-to-Speech, watch this video:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110901/wts/output.mp4

The workshop will show how to make similar videos from your own presentations. The free, open source software for Mac and Wndows is available at:
http://wikitospeech.org

John Graves

I received an invitation to this class to my e-mail account, with a link that took me to some other place. I have to look up for the class by the name: Wiki-to-Speech Workshop. since I imagined it was on WizIq, but who knows if everyone will do it.