About SlideSpeech

Imagine a Wikipedia-scale resource of learning materials. The English language Wikipedia has 4 million articles, 25 times as much information as Encyclopaedia Britannica. New technology allows us to collaborate to build a new system of linked lessons which will enable anyone, anywhere to search and learn whatever they like, at any time.

At the core of this new learning system is text -- just as with Wikipedia. Using text allows the collaborative editing and searching which enables 150,000 contributors and 480 million visitors to learn from Wikipedia every month.

At the point of delivery, however, this new system uses voice -- the text is converted to speech. Text-to-speech technology is now mature enough, with very human-like computer voices, to apply it to learning.

Finally, the conduit to access this new system is the powerful combination of web and mobile communications technology. Lessons can be authored simply by adding a script to the speaker notes of the slides of a presentation (such as PowerPoint). The presentation is e-mailed or uploaded to SlideSpeech, where it is converted into formats suitable for playing on the web, on mobile phones/tablets or as a video.

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