Text-to-speech—learning with all your senses

Not everyone learns the same way. While visual learners get on well with images and text, auditory learners benefit particularly strongly from spoken content. With the integrated text-to-speech feature from KI-KAI in Knowledgeworker Create, you can make your eLearning courses accessible to all types of learners quickly, with high-quality audio, and at no additional cost.

Your smart co-author KI-KAI handles it all, so there’s no need for external tools or risky data transfers to opaque third-party providers. KI-KAI is GDPR-compliant and lives completely within your familiar Knowledgeworker Create working environment. The audio content it generates sounds surprisingly natural, almost like professional speakers.

Audio content is more than just an addition to enhance accessibility. It opens up new didactic possibilities: Simulate conversations, recreate dialog, train listening comprehension—e.g., during sales training or onboarding—so learners can practice identifying and interpreting key information quickly. Use text-to-speech to create real learning experiences, activate additional sensory channels, and help your users retain their new knowledge—all without any additional effort.  

The text-to-speech feature is ideal for a wide range of texts. Use KI-KAI to create high-quality sound recordings in no time at all. Cost-effective and efficient. The text-to-speech feature can be used for:

• generating spoken summaries of your chapters to reinforce the learning content
• generating content that can be consumed similarly to podcasts, e.g., while walking or driving
• supplementing written content to specifically engage auditory learners
• generating content for target groups who are unable or struggle to read (e.g., children, people with visual impairments)
• dubbing in languages for which it is difficult to find suitable speakers
• prototyping sound recordings for review processes, i.e., before hiring expensive speakers
• generating dialog simulations for training and soft skill scenarios, e.g., sales, service, onboarding
• listening comprehension training in which users recognize and assess central statements from audio sequences

Use text-to-speech to do things like train your support team. Supplement traditional text-based training with realistic audio simulations and turn passive reading into active understanding.

Example: Complaints training for customer service staff

Our learners are working on a training unit on customer communication. The aim is to deal with complaints in an empathetic and solution-oriented manner. In the following audio sample, a customer describes their concerns. Learners’ task: Filter out the most important information and choose the appropriate next step in the conversation.

After listening to the audio sample, ask specific questions about the content. Check the users’ understanding of the customer’s request with questions like: “What specific problems does the customer describe?” Or check whether the learners know the correct process to follow in the event of a complaint, e.g., by asking: “What would be an empathetic next step in the conversation?” By actively engaging with the situation, learners gain a deeper understanding and remember what they’ve learned.