Voki

Voki is an online resource that has quite the credential list. It has made the “Top Tool List” for several consecutive years. Voki allows students to create an avatar (an online character) and have that certain avatar speak certain sentences that is inputted by the user. Once they have picked their avatar, the user can change options on the avatar such as voice dialect, wardrobe, hair, and background.

There are many affordances that this site has to offer to the user. First of all, there is a bit of comedy that can be thrown into making your avatar. This stems from the options that are listed for each avatar. If you wanted a male character with a female voice, you can do it. If you want your character on Mars, you can do it. In all, the variety of options makes this website engaging and entertaining.

The site also allows you to input voice to the character in a few different manners. The options that are given to inputting audio are to call in, to type out text, using a microphone and also by uploading a file on your computer. If one option does not work, another one will work for you. I believe one of the funniest voice option is the UK option. Again, the variety of options makes it a great tool to use.

Finally, Voki allows the user different ways of getting the material to wherever they want. The options of embedding and sharing are easily accessible. As I can see, there are about 15 different websites on which you can share your avatar.

There are only a few constraints that I noticed when using the website. First of all, if you have to type your text, then the voice is read in a very computerized fashion. Also, sometimes it doesn’t pronounce the words are you would like.

Here is a sample of my voki:

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=6347743&height=267&width=200