Voki - Speaking Avatars

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Hello everyone. For this post I will be talking about a rather cool and interesting tool teachers can use in their classrooms. Voki is a very easy to create and use website that allows you to make an avatar which can speak everything you type, or you can add pre-recorded sound files, or you can record your own audio on the website itself to add into the Voki.In Voki, you can choose from a variety of pre-rendered characters, choose a background and simply add something that can make your Voki talk. The majority of features, characters, backgrounds and so on are locked behind a paywall, but you are able to create Voki's with limited variety of assets to choose from.
I created an alien that felt fitting for the space theme of my blog, which has a mission to learn English in order to visit Earth. Teachers can create rather fun and interesting, short attention grabbing Voki's such as what I created to spice up things in their classrooms.

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