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Voiceover or not?
Hi,
I'm looking to hear your thoughts on when it's absolutely necessary to add voiceover. In my last role, we didn't have the budget or the resources to hire voiceover actors, and we didn't have t...
Hi Bianca!
Thank you so much for your feedback on this question. What you and Judy actually shared is what I learned in my studies and by reading Ruth Clark's book on evidence-based training. I follow her guidelines about visuals, text, and audio, and when to combine or exclude these elements.
I shared that I do have a course that did have a pretty complex visual AND explanation, and the audience is new physicians. I did add TTS and a Vyond animation to explain it to the learner. The SMEs loved it and it tested well. The rest of the course had no audio.
I also love your point about how complicated it is to update a course that has audio. When I was a product manager, the eLearning team would often have to rerecord the whole course!
Thank you for your help!
KK
Yeah. That course example you shared is a great example of when the voiceover makes a big contribution to the learning experience and is worth the effort to create. That content is so much more approachable as a narrated video than it would have been as stand-alone text.
