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

- Improves management of local and global parameters: it is now possible to define global parameters (they apply to all presentations) and local parameters (they apply to the active presentation only).

- Upgraded translations for Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

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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PowerPoint improvements

1. New “Manually close Flash window option” in grid settings (when importing Flash files). This option allowed to correctly process Flash animations that contain complex ActionScript (for instance, animations generated by Captivate).
2. In Conference Mode, stopping Speechi now switches PowerPoint back to “Edit” mode (this is the default mode).
3. Added a button in Configuration -> Themes to automatically reset default theme colors (Modern style).
4. Speechi author can now manage the size of the left column from Speechi back-end; therefore, the video default size can also be managed. This option is available from Configuration -> Themes (modern theme).

File management

1. “/Transitions” directory has been moved to a temporary directory, in /temp. This directory is voluminous, but is not needed to play Speechis online, from a server. Many users ignored this and uploaded this directory to their server without using the Speechi upload command, which resulted in hard disk space loss.

Engage and activate your students with Speechi Pro and eBeam – the smart interactive solution

Convert your existing board to an interactive whiteboard with eBeam. The new eBeam software allows you to use standard whiteboard marker pens with the eBeam sleeves at the same time that part of the whiteboard is used interactively together with a projector. The interactive part of the whiteboard is an activated “touch screen” that is controlled by the eBeam stylus and projected tool palette. Record your voice and annotations using Speechi Pro whenever you want and make them part of the lesson or presentation. Engage your students during the class and bring the world into the classroom. Super easy!

Two fantastic products with one eBeam receiver. With or without a projector, you’ll always enjoy the best interactive technology and software with eBeam Complete and Speechi Pro.

eBeam Projection
Turn your projected image into an interactive workspace.
eBeam Projection works with most projectors and turns any smooth area into an interactive whiteboard. eBeam’s revolutionary tool palettes customize themselves to whatever you are doing on your computer, whether navigating programs, annotating software applications, or presenting dynamic PowerPoint presentations. eBeam also has its own “Scrapbook” application where you can use the ClipArt library, use objects and link them directly to web pages. Speechi Pro records all the PowerPoint presentations including annotations and sound. Perfect for the educational and corporate environments.

eBeam Whiteboard
Record whiteboard notes to your computer.
Save everything on the whiteboard to your computer and share with others. Save notes and make comments, and then send via e-mail or re-use the notes at a later time. If you create a new page, or switch between pages, the eBeam software automatically saves all your work. You can print one or more pages, and you can save using many common file formats.

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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Bug fixes:

- Scorm integration problem in Claroline
- Flash video integration (hide Video resource based on timer when no “end movie” signal in Flash)
- Various fixes related to Epistudio integration and 3.0 release

Improvements:

- New FTP dialogs and threaded FTP
- New podcast dialogs
- Unlimited length for presentation title

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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