Both tools eliminate repetitive PowerPoint narration work. The difference is where they fit into your production workflow. Before developing Voxsmith, I was a PPTools Narrator user. Combined with a collection of PowerPoint macros, it was part of my regular production workflow. As my projects grew, I started looking for ways to automate more of the […]
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 […]
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.