Friday, 27 November 2009

Xtranormal online text to speech movies

This looks like an application along the lines of Voki but more flexible to produce longer pieces and specifically work on dialogues. Learners write dialogues and the application uses text to speech technology to convert to the movie clips.
This URL takes you to a sample and a Spanish as a FL teacher's thoughts on its use along with some useful perspectives of others who have commented.
Box of Tricks: Xtranormal

There is also a link to further examples on the school website (examples in Spanish as a FL) Nottingham High School. Notice it has blogging features so learners can react to each others' work.

Xtranormal is herehttp://www.xtranormal.com/
Diane

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