{"id":648181,"date":"2013-03-21T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=73547"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T19:48:40","slug":"the-updated-voice-of-ted-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648181","title":{"rendered":"The updated voice of TED-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncqVw1sx-04?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the one-year anniversary of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/\">TED-Ed website<\/a> nears, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/\">TED-Ed team<\/a>\u00a0created a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/dear-subscribers\">new video<\/a>\u00a0to walk users through the features on the site, like the ability to add questions, upload &#8220;dig deeper&#8221; materials and start discussion chains relating to any video. (This newest feature makes the website even more interactive for any type of learner.)\u00a0But rather than get a traditional narrator for this video, the group had a crazy idea: what if the voice of TED-Ed were computer-generated?<\/p>\n<p>TED-Ed director Logan Smalley explains, \u201cPractically speaking, it is way easier to re-record and\u00a0edit. But more than that, we wanted to establish a character. This voice is naturally egoless, and future proofed &#8212; in future videos, the voice could become female or speak in another language. And our animators could potentially develop the character down the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/03\/14\/the-10-most-popular-ted-ed-lessons-so-far\/\">See the 10 most-watched TED-Ed videos so far \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.ted.com\/2013\/03\/17\/how-you-can-help-build-ted-ed\/\">Find out five ways you can help build TED-ED, from nominating an educator to volunteering to be a BETA tester \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ed.ted.com\/2013\/03\/16\/how-to-track-learning-progress-using-ted-ed\/\">And find out how to track learning progress through the TED-Ed site \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/73547\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/73547\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=73547&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/0wJV3ySmGZM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the one-year anniversary of the\u00a0TED-Ed website nears, the\u00a0TED-Ed team\u00a0created a\u00a0new video\u00a0to walk users through the features on the site, like the ability to add questions, upload &#8220;dig deeper&#8221; materials and start discussion chains relating to any video. (This newest feature makes the website even more interactive for any type of learner.)\u00a0But rather than get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}