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Annotate a Web Page With Your Voice Using Voxci.com

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As soon as the glitches are out of this service, it's a five star +. I use it to do voice descriptions over the web pages of local hotels, restaurants, night spots, etc. If I pass a place and have an urge, I can use my headset and cell phone to call in a voice over. When I get back to the computer, I just connect the waiting voice file to a web page.
Pros
  • Talk about your listings while they're looking at them online.
  • Do voice over web pages for your area's sights and points of interest.
  • Great for single property web sites and blogs.
  • Easy and fast to create your files from office phone or cell.
Cons
  • At this time, service is new with a few glitches.
Description
  • Connects a voice file to any accessible web page.
  • You use phone or cell phone to record your vocal description.
  • Their page renders the site's page under your photo and a play button for your voice file.
  • A link is at the top to take them to the subject site if they want more information.
  • HTML embed code is provided so that you can embed their page in your site or blog.
Guide Review - Annotate a Web Page With Your Voice Using Voxci.com
Voxci.com is a relatively new venture at the time I'm writing this. There are some bugs that pop up now and then in their system, but I just take another run at a goofed recording and keep on moving.

When you open your free account, you can immediately begin to create pages for your online presence. You give the system a web page and then call in to do the voice over for it. The system puts the two together and you're ready to publish it on your site, in your blog or elsewhere.

What I found to be a great help was the ability to talk about my favorite places, restaurants, shops and more. It adds a personal note, and you can get more across with your voice than with text. I create a page on my site for a restaurant, write a bit about it, then link to the Voxci page on my account that displays the restaurant's home page or menu page with my recorded descriptive ready to play.

I'm creating more content than I probably would have, because it's more fun. I also believe that site visitors will find it very helpful to read my text, hear what I think about the site or place, and be able to view their web site at the same time.

Use this link to view this page with my demo voice comments.

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