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What do you think of adding text-to-speech to slidecast for generating speech automaticly?

The idea is to integrate TTS software with SlideShare. I would like to create a slidecast with speech. With this feature I have to upload powerpoint presentation with notes in every slide. Then this new tool could *automatycly* create speech to every slide. Two clicks and we could have slidecast :)

What TTS could be used? It has to be very good quality. That is why I recommend IVONA text-to-speech engine - try it by your self at www.ivona.com

It would be great if using SlideShare API it was possible to retrieve statistics (view, embed, download) of a given presentation

I would like to be able to post a message to my own wall.

Hi. I think it'd be really cool if Slideshare shared ad revenue with it's users, like Revver.com does.

I do love what you guys have created. My only question is that when I embed a slideshare player into a blog or website, the embedded player does not have a full screen button. Many of the slideshows require larger views for some of them contain small texts. But when a person who sees the slideshare show on a blog wants to see it full screen, he/she has to jump over to the slideshare website and click the full screen button on the specific show. This takes too much of the viewer's time in my opinion.

If possible, could the embedded players have the full screen button as well?? or am I missing something here? like there IS a full screen button?? (which i can't seem to fund..)

I'm sure many of us are wondering about this?

Thank you!!

Hi SlideShare-team,

currently, the only way I get retrieve the embed-url for a slideshow, is via hitting http://www.slideshare.net/api/1/get_s... with an api_key.

What would be really neat, was to just use stuff from the url of the slideshow instead of the api_key for the retrieval argument. By nature, the url (e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/HaVai/amazi...) must be unique.

E.g.: gimmeEmbedCodePlx.php?postingUser=HaVai&videoUrlString=amazing-photos-140897

Can you do this? Thank you in advance for your great tool :)

it would be great if slide share allowed you to organize slide shows into groups or collections a bit like the way you can sort photos in flickr, a lot on my presentations are based on themes and it would be great to be able to organise them.

It would be really helpful if there was some data on where viewers of my slides came from or a graphic of number of hits per day over the past month etc - a bit like the info you get from your blogs on cluster maps. this would make tracking and promoting your slides far easier as you would have an idea of where you viewers came from.

I want to be able to RUN my presentation for someone over slideshare... i.e. right now all I can do is load it up. I want to have a private, shared session with someone else (i.e. webex. gotomeeting) to review the powerpoint...

It would be nice to have a page archiving the past "Slideshow of the Day"s.
It would be another helpful method for finding quality content (or at least content deemed "of the day", for whatever reason...)

What about a diaporama feature with a simple transition every x seconds ?

;)

Great application!

I want a portable file format of the merged powerpoint file and mp3 audio. I want to download this file to an IPOD (podcast) or computer or DVD (say a series of slidecasts to be published on a iso) and view it sound and all (automatic slides). I want to be able to serve my own streaming file/flash (sharecast) w/mp3 on my own server or buy Highly Available speedy service for said file. I don't want competing interests just my content and my mp3 and my website advertised. I don't mind a little link back to slideshare to let others know if the service is free. I just don't want to confuse my subscribers with competing ideas or ads.

thanks.

Hello,

upgrade a slide is normal also after few years. You make a new presentation in a new place, change the first with the new data and the old pages with news.
The problem is that when you upgrade a slide in slideshare you loose everything.
Why?
A possible feature is the possibility to have a slide history e.g. version 1.0, 1.1, ..., 2.0 ...

I hope this is for you a good a idea.
For me it will be a great feature ;)

Fabrizio

I associated a set of slideshows to my event and each slideshow got its own post. That's cool. But to edit the text of each post I had to disassociate the slideshow from the event and then re-associate each one, this time with the new text. It would be great to be able to edit just the text of each post on the event page.

For example when I go to set a slideshow as a favorite I keep clicking on the cancel button on accident. It would be great if cancel was a simple text link, and the more important save button was the prominent thing to act on.

Adding a contact, and removing contacts is very easy, and can't cause any permanent change or damage. So having a stop-gap confirmation step is not necessary, it's actually a bit of a pain. Can you remove it?