If you’re an instructional designer or eLearning developer, you’ve probably bumped into the same three names while researching AI narration for PowerPoint: Murf, Speechify, and Voxsmith. They get lumped together a lot, but once you look past the marketing pages, they’re solving pretty different problems. I built Voxsmith because I was narrating decks by hand […]
I have recently updated Voxtext. When you launch, it’ now open wider instead of tall to better accomodate the VTT for LMS feature. You can now set a default folder for Voxtext to start in. Download the updated versions below.
After months of development, testing, and refinement, Voxprep is officially available. Voxprep is a collection of PowerPoint productivity tools designed to eliminate the repetitive work Microsoft never quite got around to solving. Whether you’re preparing presentations for AI workflows, cleaning up speaker notes, or working with large slide decks, Voxprep helps you get back to […]
Voxsmith started as a PowerPoint tool. Speaker notes in, narrated audio out, attached right back onto the slides. That’s still the core of it. But a lot of what instructional designers and eLearning developers write isn’t a deck. It’s a script. A facilitator guide. A policy document that needs to become an audio walkthrough. If […]
Voxsmith started as a Windows-only tool, built around PowerPoint’s COM API to attach ElevenLabs narration directly onto your slides — animations and all. COM is a Windows technology, so a literal port to Mac was never on the table. But a lot of you asked for Mac support, and “no” isn’t a great answer to […]
I’ve spent 30+ years in instructional design, and the live demo is still my favorite way to teach software. You read the room, you adjust on the fly, you answer the question nobody scripted for. Nothing beats it. It also doesn’t scale, doesn’t survive a time zone, and falls apart the second you’re not there […]
I’ve been doing professional eLearning voiceover work for years. I was the voice of an entire product line’s customer-facing training content. Hundreds of slides, dozens of courses, all recorded in my home studio using Hindenburg Pro. When I was challenged by a VO professional this weekend about using ElevenLabs AI voices, I got it. I’m […]
I’ve been creating narrated PowerPoint presentations for years. If you’ve ever built training content, you know the drill. Write your speaker notes, record audio, attach it to slides, test animations, make edits, re-record audio, re-attach audio, test again. It’s not difficult work. It’s repetitive work. When AI voices started getting good, I thought the process […]
Discover why ElevenLabs is the go-to text-to-speech tool for adding professional narration to PowerPoint presentations — and how it compares to the alternatives.
As an L&D professional working for a multinational company, I needed a reliable way to generate transcripts for our eLearning videos and translate them into other languages. There are plenty of tools that claim to do this, but most were either too expensive, too complicated, or just didn’t work the way I needed them to. […]