Version 3.5.0.9 lets yous automatically manage all Speechi licences, including Speechi Light free licence.

After installing Speechi, open PowerPoint and select the licence manager in the speechi menu.

Click on the “Get your free licence” button.

Enter your email as a “New user”, then finish completing the registration form.

Your Speechi Light code is immediately emailed to you.

When you receive it, enter Licence Manager again, click on “Get your free licence” button, paste it at the bottom of the form and click on “Register licence”.

Congratulations to Pr Delmotte, from French Medical Sport Society, who developped 4 Speechis using new video/PowerPoint synchronisation features during summertime. Those Speechis are based from conferences that were recorded live. They use :

• smart one-click post-sync.
• new custom sizing of left colum video by the author

The 4 Speechis can be freely accessed from the Society’s site. (just click on the red square).

Conference in Rennes

Conference in Grenoble

Conference in Toulouse

Conference in Paris

Speechi 3 gives users the possibility to synchronize their PowerPoint with a Flash video in just one click (this is the smart mode). The person watching the Speechi on the Internet can then change the video size live by just pulling the small handle located at the bottom right.

But, until now, this modification could only be done at viewing time. Every Speechi would appear with same “default” proportions for the video.

Speechi authors can now modify the Speechi default proportions - video colum and slide size. They can do this very easily.

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The Smart Mode is the quickest way to synchronize a video with your PowerPoint, provided your video has been filmed while you were showing you Powerpoint (using Speechi) to your audience. In many cases, this is just not the case. For instance, you may have a video handy that was filmed some time earlier and now that you have heard of Speechi powerful video features, you want to show your video synchronized with your PowerPoint.

This tends to happen often in Universities where lots of classes have already been filmed - but of course the Powerpoint content as such has not been processed yet.

In this case, you should use Speechi Simple Import mode. Speechi Simple Import mode lets you quickly synchronize your video with each slide - and with each slide’s transition. It is not a "One Click" mode like the Smart Mode, however, it allows rapid and efficient video / PowerPoint post-synchronization.

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A podcast lets you create a list of audio files that users and students can subscribe to. When you update this list (what you can do automatically with Speechi 3.0), students automatically download or access the updates and can listen to them via iTunes or any RSS reader.

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The new Speechi 3.0 version introduces major new features related to video and video / PowerPoint synchronization.

The new "Smart Import" feature is a major breakthrough, because it allows you to instantaneously create synchronized PowerPoint presentations with video embedded into them. Tools that allow such constructions typically cost 10 to 100 times as much as Speechi - not to mention you need hours to obtain a result close to what you will automatically get with Speechi.

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In version 3.0, Speechi accepts videos with the FLV format. To summarize, the advantages of this format, usually used in Flash, are as follows:

+ better video quality
+ possibility of carrying out “streaming” with direct access (in other words, it is possible, if you have a video of 3 hours, of going directly to the 90th minute of the video without first having to view the initial 89 minutes).

We have received a lot of positive feedback on the latest v. 3 of Speechi from users and prospects. Most users are glad to see that the “skin” can be customized to fit the organization’s color schemes. More in-depth comments and feedback from users will be posted as soon as they are submitted to us.

Speechi 3.0 has lots of new features:

• New 100 % customizable front-end Flash interface
• New Web 2.0 front-end interface (for blogs)
• New and revolutionnary video features
• New podcast features
• New Flash features

I can’t describe it all in one post only, or I would make it for the longest post in the Guinness book. It will take at least 5 or 6 other posts to mention everything. Stay tuned.

Speechi Share and Speechi 3.0 are not really related developments, but we have been waiting for them for a long time. Just a few customers knew about the projects because we never tell the planet in advance to avoid “Microsoft” effects but they just happen to be ready for release at the same time !

• Speechi 3.0 is an improved version of Speechi with lots of new features related to video, posting Speechi presentations into blogs, podcasting Speechi presentations and customizable Flash front-ends
• Speechi Share lets you broadcast professor’s PC and voice.

So I guess I will have two write lots of new tickets in the next 2 weeks…