RE: Voice-over in online tutorials - opinions?

[bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]

Some of SmartForce's CBT courses are now offered in "audio" versions (my
employer has the Office 2000 series available to employees in this format).
The only difference between them and the regular versions is that somebody
reads most (not all) of the text to you.  They exclude the tests and the
pre-quiz questions from the audio, BTW.  I tried one and hated it because
the audio track was much slower than my normal reading pace.


-----Original Message-----
From: SHIELDS,SUSAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1) [mailto:susan_shields2 -at- hp -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:31 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Voice-over in online tutorials - opinions?

describe. My personal opinion of that tutorial is that the voice-over is
distracting, doesn't add value or enhance the user experience (for this
particular application), makes the files even bigger, and is tedious and
expensive to generate and maintain. 


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