Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The field of online learning continually throws us the most interesting conundrums. Take, for example, text-to-speech, that is, spoken words generated by computer from printed text. It has been around for a while, and we're all used to the stilted computer voices reading us the weather or announcing the time. But is is good enough for online learning? Tony Karrer offers an extended discussion that includes this comment from a practitioner: "We have produced courses for 6000 people in the company and we are getting good feedback: 80% are satisfied, 10% love it and 10% feel offended. My conclusion is that the voices are 'good enough' for training applications."

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