In a recent episode of Two EdTech guys answer questions Rushton and I took up a question about creating videos. Specifically, how to create videos that are generated from text.
He had some suggestions for tools to generate videos from text. Those are shown below. First, let’s talk about why you might use one of these tools.
Why create videos from text
The person who sent me the original question wanted to avoid having their face and voice on video. Actually, that’s a pretty common concern, and it’s one of the reasons why you might choose to use a text-to-video tool.
You may not have a good environment to record video or audio. For example, a classroom with concrete walls and floors often creates echo in recordings unless you have a quality microphone to filter it out.
Some schools have a general policy that does not allow students to appear in audiovisual projects. In that case, a text-to-video tool provides a way for those students to make videos.
Finally, some of these text to video tools simply save you time when you need to produce a video quickly.
simple show
Simpleshow is a free tool to create common craft-Explanatory videos to the style.
The first step in use simple show is to write a script for your video. The script is written in chapters in a template that becomes the outline of your video. After you’ve written your script, Simpleshow will take it and give you suggested images and animations to use. The suggestions are based on the keywords in your script. Adding narration to your video is the last step in the simple show editor. There is automatic text-to-speech narration that will read your script as the narration for your video. Full videos can be downloaded or uploaded directly to YouTube from Simpleshow.
Narakeet
Narakeet is a tool that will turn your slides (with speaker notes) into a video that is automatically narrated for you. You can choose from about twenty voiceover options, adjust the speed of the voiceover, and choose to have subtitles automatically added to your video. In this short video I demonstrate how to use Canva and Narakeet to create a self-narrated video lesson.
lumens5
lumens5 is a tool that will produce a video for you based on your written work. To create a video with lumens5 you can enter the URL of your published work or submit the text of an article you have written. Lumen5 will then select highlights from your writing to include in a video. The video will always start with the title of your article. From there, you’ll use any subheadings or section titles you have in your article to create sections of your video. If you don’t have subheadings or section headings in your article, Lumen5 will attempt to extract the keywords or phrases from each paragraph. Here is a demo video how to use Lumen5.
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