{"id":28,"date":"2014-01-24T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrmclaughlin.com\/web\/?p=28"},"modified":"2022-11-21T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:02:46","slug":"crazytalk-1-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/crazytalk-1-24-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"CrazyTalk 1\/24\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world today of video teaching I have often found it difficult to deal with my face out there on the computer screens of thousands of people. \u00a0I have made videos of just screen shares and my voice in the background, but sometimes there is a lot of static screen and just my voice in the background. \u00a0I wanted something that would allow me to put a face to the voice without it being my face. \u00a0I did some research and I found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211201132523\/http:\/\/www.reallusion.com\/crazytalk\/crazytalk.aspx\">CrazyTalk 7<\/a>. \u00a0This is software you download to your computer. \u00a0The cost is about $30 for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211201132523\/http:\/\/www.reallusion.com\/store\/purchase_ct.aspx\">standard version<\/a>. \u00a0It has the ability to take a picture and animate it. \u00a0To make the video you just attach the audio you wish to use to the character and the computer animates the character to match the audio that is being spoken. \u00a0I recorded some samples that will be attached at the bottom of this post. \u00a0If you don\u2019t want to use your face you can use one of the many built in characters instead. \u00a0I have tried my face and it is a bit creepy to have my virtual head talking. Kinda like Max Headroom for all those who remember the 80\u2019s. \u00a0I decided to use the build in cat for my videos. \u00a0I also thought it was strange to use my voice coming out of a cat. \u00a0So with a little trick in Audacity \u00a0(another great free software) I changed the pitch of my voice 4 half octaves, amplified and removed the background and I have a cat voice that is consistent for all my videos. \u00a0I embedded those videos into my power point and now I have a dynamic power point video that is not just voice in the background. \u00a0In my endeavors to become an online teacher I have found that having the correct tools to build video resources is very important. \u00a0In the next few Techformation blogs I will focus on tools one might need to make some videos on their computer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world today of video teaching I have often found it difficult to deal with my face out there on the computer screens of thousands of people. \u00a0I have made videos of just screen shares and my voice in the background, but sometimes there is a lot of static screen and just my voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmclaughlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}