Free talking character for your personal sites….
May 27th, 2007 by Vikram Rajan
SitePal from Oddcast is a cool feature to have on your website. It allows you to talk to your website visitors through an animated character… you can use text-to-speech or your voice (record by phone, or upload a file).
Now, to help proliferate their service, Oddcast has created VOKI… a free version you can embed into your (personal) website, blog, or anywhere else. You can use animated characters (aka, ‘avatars’) to
- welcome website visitors,
- describe your product, service,
- narrate real estate listings or detailed specs
- read answers to FAQ,
- and anything else you can imagine.
Characters are full customizable to look sort of like you. SitePal offers more customization and even Your-Own-Photo-realistic service (for a fee of course). Voki mentions:
“Can anyone use Voki? Voki is solely and exclusively for personal, non-commercial use only. If you run a business website where you sell things or you run a site about your business – a real estate agency, for example – then Voki is not for you. We have a product called SitePal that costs a small monthly fee for business class users.”
I created this in less than 5 minutes (click to view). Does it look me? I used text-to-speech… Voki: Can’t beat free!
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There is lots of software that is out there free for consumers and that requires a license for commercial use. Voki is not “free Sitepal”. Voki is a product for consumers that will be ad-supported in the future. I could be careful glossing over the licensing requirements when you recommend software to businesses.
There is not a lot of websites that give a talking character for free. Thanks too you, I was trying to find one, and I found one. I would recommend this to personal sites. Thanks.
i need something that talks when ppl join my site i need it free are they one out there
There is a free site that offers free talking characters. The site is www.flipz.tv I have tried the software and it appears to be fine.