Eleven Labs' nature of AI voice cloning offers diverse uses, especially for eLearning in higher education. eLearning and Eleven Labs go together when providing a personable educational experience for individuals in higher education. With eLearning, professors are not available in person and classes are not held on campus; all the learning happens online and at the individual’s time. Because of this, professors and instructors can use Eleven Labs to mimic the feeling of an in-class experience by creating text-to-speech mp3 files and utilizing speech-to-speech tools. The learner will be able to log into their class to watch videos with their professor/instructor’s voice, and follow along PowerPoints, texts, and instructions with the click of a play button. This simple step of adding an AI voice to eLearning aids in a comfortable and personable learning environment.
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Integrating Text-to-Speech/Speech-to-Speech in Higher Education:
Professor/instructor will select Text-to-Speech or Speech-to-Speech.
a. Choose their cloned voice; adjust voice setting;
select version to use.
b. Add in their desired text(s) – maximum of 2500
characters.
c. Generate mp3 file.
Professor/instructor will use this audio to upload along with a PowerPoint OR can add the audio to the bottom on their Canvas page to read aloud instruction or text.
Students will use the self-guided eLearning experience to navigate their instruction all while mimicking the feeling of an in-person educational experience by simply hearing their professor/instructor’s voice.
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References
Eleven Labs Team. (2024). Speech Synthesis. Eleven Labs. https://elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis