Article Video Robot
Article Video Robot (AVR) is a flex based online software that helps users to turn ezine articles into live talking videos that can be published on websites as widgets or on video sharing sites like Youtube as videos.
Installation
Article Video Robot is a fully online flex based app which means that no download or setup is required to run it. Also being a browser based RIA it is cross platform compatible, i.e. it can run on Mac, Windows, Linux, etc seamlessly.
Making articles into video
To make videos of articles in AVR, one does not require a video camera. Also no knowledge of video editing, etc is required. It is instead a straightforward process, allowing anyone to create videos with ease.
The program's interface provides two ways for the user to turn an article into a video, namely, the fully-automatic conversion mode and the semi-automatic conversion mode.
Fully automatic conversion mode
In the fully automatic mode all the users is required to do is paste his/her article's URL into the converter. The program then automatically fetches the contents of the articles and heuristically scans for it for the most relevant pieces of information. It then transforms this filtered text into video elements like pictures, videos and animations to create the final video. The whole procedure takes AbOUT 1-2 to minutes.
Semi-Automatic conversion mode
In the semi-automatic conversion mode the user has to copy/paste the article's content by hand and ProgresS through the wizard manually. This while May Be more time consuming, it provides the user with a much better control on how the article is transformed into a video by asking for user input at every and every step.
Automatic Voice-overs
To convert the article into a talking video a voice over is required. Article video robot does that by synthesizing the audio by convert the article's text into speech. There are over 50 different male and female voice provided inside the interface to read the text.
Publishing
The video created from Article Video Robot can be published on websites, blogs and social networks as widgets. Additionally, the video can be exported as an AVI files for upload to video sharing websites like YouTube, Metacafe, etc. Some advanced publishing options are also available to the users like output as SWF or flash format (required to burn flash movies on DVDs).
Features
- Article Video Robot is web-based software, and does not require any software installation.
- The output video consists of Text, Images, Videos, and Sounds.
- AVR provides fifty nearly-human text-to-speech voices to read the article text.
- In fully automatic mode the software can convert an article to a video in just one click.
- The software can also automatically distribute the generated video to blogs, social sites and video sharing sites automatically.
Restrictions
- There is only a 14 day trial to evaluate the program.
- The videos made with Article Video Robot cannot be downloaded to a computer until account upgrade.
- Article Video Robot has had reported problems with Opera 10.
Versions
1.00 |
Article Video Robot v1.0 |