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<DIV>Just returned from a weekend at Kiwi PyCon</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://nz.pycon.org/2011/jan/23/kiwi-pycon-2011-wellington-27-28-august-te-whaea/">http://nz.pycon.org/2011/jan/23/kiwi-pycon-2011-wellington-27-28-august-te-whaea/</A></DIV>
<DIV>where we had some great talks.</DIV>
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<DIV>This was my lightning talk about Wiki-to-Speech (16 slides, includes computer generated voice overs):</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110822/pycon2011.htm">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110822/pycon2011.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm working now to make as many other talks as possible available as Wiki-to-Speech presentations. </DIV>
<DIV>For example, here is a Wiki-to-Speech version of Saturday's </DIV>
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<DIV id=magicdomid19><SPAN class=author-g-i7gw1dvaytcefia9>keynote by Jeff Rush - The magic of metaprogramming</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110827/metaprogramming.htm">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110827/metaprogramming.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>How the Wiki-to-Speech version was made:</DIV>
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<DIV>The notes for Jeff's talk were captured on an Etherpad:</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://ietherpad.com/kiwipycon2011-jeff-rush">http://ietherpad.com/kiwipycon2011-jeff-rush</A></DIV>
<DIV>as were notes from half (one track) of the rest of the conference</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://ietherpad.com/kiwipycon2011">http://ietherpad.com/kiwipycon2011</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Jeff provided his slides as a directory of S5 files.</DIV>
<DIV>Here is the S5 tool:</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/">http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I took screen shots of those slides and pasted them into an Open Office Impress presentation</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110827/metaprogramming.odp">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20110827/metaprogramming.odp</A></DIV>
<DIV>putting the text from my Etherpad notes in the speaker notes for each slide.</DIV>
<DIV>The slide images and .odp file were then processed by the Wiki-to-Speech from ODP utility (odp2wts.py)</DIV>
<DIV>available from</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://wikitospeech.org">http://wikitospeech.org</A> (compiled for Mac and Windows)</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://openallureds.org">http://openallureds.org</A> (source)</DIV>
<DIV>which generated the slide voice overs using text-to-speech and wrapped the slide images and </DIV>
<DIV>resulting .mp3 and .ogg files in HTML with a bit of navigation.</DIV>
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<DIV>One great suggestion from Francois Marier </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.slideshare.net/fmarier">http://www.slideshare.net/fmarier</A></DIV>
<DIV>was to take the generated output one step further,</DIV>
<DIV>using the slide images and computer generated text-to-speech to produce a video</DIV>
<DIV>by using ffmpeg. This is now an enhancement request on the open source Wiki-to-Speech project</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://code.google.com/p/open-allure-ds/issues/detail?id=12">http://code.google.com/p/open-allure-ds/issues/detail?id=12</A></DIV>
<DIV>if anyone is interested in helping out.</DIV>
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<DIV>How would you like to be able to create slides, add what you want said to the speaker notes </DIV>
<DIV>and have the presentation output as a video with computer generated voice overs? </DIV>
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<DIV>John Graves</DIV>
<DIV>PhD Student</DIV>
<DIV>Auckland University of Technology</DIV>
<DIV>New Zealand<BR><A href="mailto:john.graves@aut.ac.nz">john.graves@aut.ac.nz</A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://bit.ly/JohnGravesLinkedIn">http://bit.ly/JohnGravesLinkedIn</A><BR>(+64) 021 213 8367 (mobile)</DIV></BODY></HTML>