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Talking Notes for Powerpoint

For those with speech problems who need to talk to a Powerpoint presentation.

Latest release: Talking Notes for Powerpoint 0.9_PPTM_for_Office_2007

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Download Talking Notes for Powerpoint for all platforms (54.2 kB): PPTM version a SpeakNotes for Powerpoint 2007

This has a master slide which places the 'speak'button on each slide - Read more

A macro in the presentation can be activated to speak the notes. The macro can be activated by an on-screen button placed on the master slide. Currently this is for Powerpoint 2003 but it will work in 2007 if you put a button on each page. It uses a VBA command from Excel 2003 to do the speech command.

The voice used is the default voice set in the Speech Control Panel which does limit you somewhat.

Improvements would be to be able to speak paragraphs in the notes by command rather than all at once. The addition of event control should enable the use of text to speech alongside cusom animations. It is possible to get events activated in Powerpoint but they don't seem to work in a way that is useful - any ideas welcome.

Programmers

Interested in helping to develop this project? Go to the forge page for more information.

system

Posted by will wade at 2009-07-07 18:10

currently this is only working on windows.. I will try and get a branch of this working on mac using the mac's built in TTS(it nicely crashes PPT 2004).. and perhaps even Open Office?

Mac

Posted by David Colven at 2009-07-07 18:15

Yes, sorry it's using Windows Excel calls and MS Visual Basic. If you can get it running on a mac great. Not sure if we can do the same with Open Office yet.

Talking Notes for Powerpoint