Powertalk and Foreign Languages

[gmat2000]

I have been looking into text to Speech applications and ran across Powertalk. This looks exactly like what I am looking for but may be missing one component. I am a foreign language teacher

attempting to make powerpoints where the text is read back in Spanish. From what I have read it seems like powertalk will only do English, am I corrrect in that assumption? Right now power point just lets me 

do a narration which is not what I am looking for, I need a slide by slide sound component. Thanks for any imput.  George m 

[Steve Lee]

Hi George

On 23 December 2015 at 13:53, gmat2000 <forz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been looking into text to Speech applications and ran across
> Powertalk. This looks exactly like what I am looking for but may be missing
> one component. I am a foreign language teacher
> attempting to make powerpoints where the text is read back in Spanish. From
> what I have read it seems like powertalk will only do English, am I corrrect
> in that assumption?

PowerTalk pretty much just works in any language as long as you have
set up you PC to have an appropriate Text To Speech voice, Spanish in
your case. You'll have to write Spanish text on your slides of course
so will also want to ensure you can enter the accented characters
which you can do with a Spanish keyboard (real or virtual) or using
the "Alt Gr" key on the English keyboard

Depending on your version of Windows you should be able to install a
free "Language" pack providing all you need. You can also get 3rd
party voices.

Make sure you select the Spanish voice in the Windows Settings (in win
10 you'll want Helena or Sabina).
Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

> Right now power point just lets me
> do a narration which is not what I am looking for, I need a slide by slide
> sound component. Thanks for any imput. George m

I don't really understand. You can always record sound in PowerPoint
and add it to your slides to play. You could use animations to
synchronise the speech.

This approach will let you have Spanish speech for English text etc.
and does not involve PowerTalk at all.

I hope that helps

Steve

[Daniel]

The voices from IVONA work well.

https://www.ivona.com/

I am using Miguel for Spanish (American).

Kind regards,

Daniel

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[Steve Lee]

If you are trying to get PowerTalk to read in Spanish where the text
is English then you can do it with a little trick.

1) Enter a space in the Alt text for your English then they will not be spoken
2) Hide the Spansih text so it is not seen. Note it can be hard to
select hidden text to alter it :) Try dragging off the edge of the
slide.

Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com

[Steve Lee]

Thanks Daniel.

I used Ivona voices on Android a while back and found them to be very good.

Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com