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SoundSlides

Check out Robin Good's review of SoundSlides, an OSX/XP application for creating online slideshows with sound. $39.95 -- Short version -- he likes it but says that the process of uploading the file to the web is a little too difficult for most people.

He also points to Speechi, a service which seems to provide some of the same features, and does have a free version which will convert PowerPoint to Flash for web use although I don't think it has the audio feature. Update: Thierry from Speechi (who must have been the first reader of this weblog) emailed to say that they do have audio and video features in the paid version. I should have been more specific about that. It looks like a good option, particularly for e-learning, which is one of the things they emphasize on their site.

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Anonymous said…
About Speechi, we do have audio (and video) features, but not free.
Thierry
6:49 AM, October 13, 2006
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