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PowerPoint
Add-in
Vox Proxy works through an add-in program for Microsoft PowerPoint®
(2000 or newer) that allows you to use Microsoft Agent Technology
to provide talking, animated characters within your slide shows.
Vox Proxy appears right on PowerPoint’s main menu. |
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Agent
Characters Included
Vox Proxy comes with 29 Microsoft Agent Characters and
will work with other Agent-compatible characters. Click
here to see a gallery of characters. All but four of these
characters are included with Vox Proxy. Those four (Susan, Tom,
Simon, and Doc) are available at extra cost. |
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Debra
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Chromedome
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Paul
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Scientist
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Brooke
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Simple
Agent Scripts
Vox Proxy uses a highly simplified, yet very powerful script
to control agent characters and other features on each slide.
Scripts are created using Vox Proxy's click-simple wizards,
where everything is available in drop-down lists. Scripts
are simplified by defaulting nearly everything necessary for
Agent control. You can change slides or call up PowerPoint
animations within the script. Here’s a sample:
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Paul at Left Center |
The
character Paul appears left-center on the slide |
| Explain |
Paul
gestures to explain |
| Say
Welcome to Vox Proxy! |
He
speaks… |
| Point45 |
He
aims his pointer toward the upper-right (45 degree angle) |
| Click |
Signal
PowerPoint to bring up its next text bullet |
| Say
Our first topic will be blah blah… |
More
speech… |
| PointLeft |
Point
toward the right side of the slide (Paul’s left) |
| Click |
Tell
PowerPoint to bring up it's next text bullet |
| Say
Next, we’ll talk about blah blah… |
More
speech… |
| NextSlide |
Go
to the next slide |
Multiple characters can be controlled just as easily.
Vox Proxy’s smart defaults automatically take care of
timing issues like characters waiting for each other or making
sure PowerPoint’s animations wait for the character,
yet it provides you with simple options to allow simultaneous
activities.
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Convenient
Development Environment
Think of a script as simply a hidden text-box on each slide.
The text in this text-box is the script. You edit this text
using Vox Proxy’s Script Writer. The script and
slide appear side-by-side on the screen. The Script Writer appears
over the left-hand frame of PowerPoint’s Normal View, with
the slide appearing in the right-hand frame. This provides a
very convenient environment for creating and editing slide shows.
Characters can be positioned on the slide by simply dragging
them into place. Like any other text box, scripts are saved
within the slides themselves. So if you move or copy slides,
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Scripts
Run with Slide Shows
Vox Proxy allows you to turn its "Run Mode" on or
off as desired. When turned on, your VP scripts will run automatically
when you run the slide show. When off, you can run the slide
show on its own, without Vox Proxy. |
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me get one thing clearly across. Vox Proxy is addictive.
Until you have seen it perform, you'll never know what
you are missing." |
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Powerful
Wizard
Vox Proxy’s Script Editor has a powerful Wizard that allows
you to develop your entire script from drop-down lists and click-simple
selections. The only thing you need to type is the speech text
itself. |
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Power
Scripting Menu
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Smart
Characters Help Write Your Script
The characters themselves have a unique development menu which
also helps to simplify writing your scripts. By right-clicking
on a character, you can select a drop-down list of animations
which the character will demonstrate for you as you scroll though
it. When you find the animation you want, a single click will
place the selected animation command into your script. After
dragging the character on the screen, another selection on the
right-click menu will insert a MoveTo command into the script
which will move the character to that location on the slide.
Similarly, a Show command can be inserted to show a new character
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Versatile
Script Macros
Vox Proxy lets you write script macros that are not associated
with any PowerPoint presentation, but can be called within any
slide. You can execute Macros from a shortcut or by double-clicking
on the macro file. Macros can also run a PowerPoint slide show,
even specifying the starting and ending slides. |
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Proxy is such an easy program to use. You'll be creating
knock-your-socks-off presentations in no time!" |
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Speech
Pronunciation Dictionary
Vox Proxy contains has an amazingly simple facility which gives
you the power of the Agent Control’s "speech mapping",
but without any of the complexity: a pronunciation dictionary.
It allows you to set up a dictionary of special words or phrases
whose pronunciation by the TTS Engine may not be what you want.
These words and phrases will appear normally in your script
(and in the characters’ speech balloons), but will be "mapped"
to a different pronunciation when spoken by a character. And
it’s all automatic. The pronunciation dictionary contains
a "global" list, which applies to all presentations
as well as a "local" list, which applies just to the
presentation or macro you’re working on. |
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Other
Advanced Features
There are many other advanced features in Vox Proxy at your
fingertips if you need them, such as:
- Pre-defined
and user-defined variables
- Built-in
variables include &date, &time, &day, &month,
&year, &tod (time of day - morning, afternoon, etc.)
plus speech tags and many others
- Features
to help you use voice commands, message boxes, and selection
lists for presentations that are fully interactive with
the user.
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Proxy is a great innovation in providing quality, self-paced,
effective training." |
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Great
MultiMedia features
- Play
audio, video, and flash movies
- Characters
can narrate the media
- Fade
the audio in or out - for example, when characters will
be talking
- Synchronize
character speech and actions with media using built-in or
user-defined timers
- Display
Excel worksheets or Word documents in windows within the
slide show
- Read
and write data from worksheets or text files
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no learning curve with Vox Proxy. It took me all of 30
minutes with the Wizard before I was writing scripts of
my own!" |
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Now
available with AT&T
Natural Voices
Vox Proxy characters speak using built-in TruVoice Text-To-Speech
engines, or they can speak using your own recorded voices.
Included with the standard TTS engine are voices in French,
German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and British English. Now,
you can also order state-of-the-art Natural Voices from AT&T
Labs. The AT&T Natural Voices TTS Engine is the most realistic,
human-sounding synthetic speech system available today. Natural
Voices are available in US English, British English, French,
Spanish, and German.
CLICK
HERE to visit our Natural Voices page, where you can listen
to sample voices. Click on a button below to listen to sample
voices.
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Mike
Crystal Arnaud Alberto
Click
on a button above to listen to sample voices.
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