Tip of the Week: Speech

Web 2.0 Tools Fotobabble and iSpeech

Using speech as a special sound effect can enhance presentations, blogs, and photographs. Several Web 2.0 tools are available to add speech to photographs and to covert text to speech.

What are the differences?
• Fotobabble allows speech to be added to any photograph. Upload a photograph to the website and use a standard microphone to add audio to the photograph. This can be shared on social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, among others, or emailed. Also, a URL is automatically generated for each photograph and can be used on a website or blog.
• iSpeech gives the option to cut and paste text or upload pdf, ppt, htm, xls, doc, blog, rss, txt, or rtf files and have the information converted to speech. Other options include to download it, podcast it or even embed it as an object on any webpage that supports html including: MySpace, Blogger, EBay, etc.