For this week’s blog assignment, you will be creating your own Avatar(s). Before creating your Avatar, you need to decide what your Avatar will say – a greeting, famous quote, rooting on your beloved team, etc. Your recorded voice should be no less than 20 seconds long.
To record your voice, you will need a microphone and a script (e.g. what you want to say). Keep in mind the quality of your voice when recording. Your voice should sound natural, like you would really talk, not like you are reading from a script. Make it animated by using voice inflection! Once you finalized your script, practice it out loud 2 or 3 times before you record. When you have practiced and ready to begin, follow the following steps:
1. Plug microphone in
2. With your mouse, select start / accessories / entertainment / sound recording
3. Select red button to record
4. Play back, if you like it, save it to your P drive under project folder
5. If you don't like it, select file new, don't save, and record again.
6. Once your recording is completed and you have saved it to your P drive, you are ready to make your Voki Avatar
Go to http://www.voki.com/. Sign up and have fun creating your Avatar.
To record your voice, you will need a microphone and a script (e.g. what you want to say). Keep in mind the quality of your voice when recording. Your voice should sound natural, like you would really talk, not like you are reading from a script. Make it animated by using voice inflection! Once you finalized your script, practice it out loud 2 or 3 times before you record. When you have practiced and ready to begin, follow the following steps:
1. Plug microphone in
2. With your mouse, select start / accessories / entertainment / sound recording
3. Select red button to record
4. Play back, if you like it, save it to your P drive under project folder
5. If you don't like it, select file new, don't save, and record again.
6. Once your recording is completed and you have saved it to your P drive, you are ready to make your Voki Avatar
Go to http://www.voki.com/. Sign up and have fun creating your Avatar.
After you’ve created your Avatar, come back to the blog and comment on your experience in creating your Avatar. Was it fun? What did you have trouble with? How could this Avatar be used?
The experience creating my voki was very much fun! I didn't really have trouble with anything, but uploading the recorded voice. To be honost, I don't think that my voki sock puppet dino avatar has much of a purpose, but to greet someone in an odd way.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great experience! It was very fun. I had a little trouble thinking of what to record. This could be used to great someone.
ReplyDeleteThis has been a whole new experience, espically making your avatar talk, and say what you want to say. It was very fun, and exciting to do something different!
ReplyDeleteIt was something that I have never done before and it was very interesting. I hope that we do more stuff like this!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed creating my voki! I have never done anything like this before and it was fun hearing what I acctually sound like on a recording. The only thing I had trouble with was trying to figure out what I wanted my voki to say. My Avatar could be used for anything Christmas related because my voki is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
ReplyDeleteMaking the Voki was alot of fun! It really wasnt hard at all, the only part i kept messing up on was reading what i was saying and i had to keep re-doing it but other than that it was easy, i dont really think that the voki would be used for anything except entertainment listeing to other peoples.
ReplyDeleteI really liked created the avatars. It waas something that I had never done before, especially the audio. It was really fun personalizing them and hearing each others audios. I like doing things in class that we can use each other and bounce off ideas. I had alot of trouble with the audio though, which got very frustrating. You could use your voki's on blogs or IM's.
ReplyDeleteI had alot of fun creating the voki. i love how it gave you diffrent options to make your avatar as not just a person. i has alot of trouble with getting the sound recording on the voki website, that was very fustrating. this avater voki thing could be used for your profile pictures if you dont wanna give out a real picture of yourself.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was very fun!! I had a little trouble figuring out what to say. You could use it to show people and have fun!
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