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Once you've signed up for your Voki account, you can go ahead and log in. And then you'll
be taken directly to where you can create your Voki. I already have a few on here, but
if you are just starting out, just click on Create and then you can customize your avatar.
So here's the one that has come up, I can click on the dice, and get random generated
characters. If I don't like any of the ones that come up I can click customize your character
and then I can choose whether I want a male character or female character. And from the
choices, in this case I'm going to choose a female character, and there's several different
options of female characters you can choose from. You have animals, you have cartoons,
so you can find something that works for you. So I think in this case, I am going to choose.
. .there so many to choose from. I think I am going to go with classic, and I'm just
going to choose one of these ladies here, let's go back to all female.I am going to
choose this lady here. So once I've picked my character, I can click the next button
which will let me pick hair, so if I have any hair options for that particular avatar
it will allow me to put the different hair on. I can choose what kind of hair I want
her to have, then the next is her mouth. And so I can choose what lip she's going to have,
and again lots of choices, you want her smiling, they've got the smiling, but you can choose
which which one to use. Then we have clothing. And then you can choose what she is going
to wear. Now if you just click and drag on her, you can move her around so you can see
what she's wearing. You have casual clothes, you've got sports clothes, you've got dressy
clothes, you've got uniforms, so depending on what kind class you're teaching, you might
go for different outfits. But let's just go dressy, we have lots of suits that we can
choose from. We are just going to pick a little business suit, and so now she's dressed, we've designed her,
next we can do the Bling. And this lets us choose if we want to put glasses on her and
also if she's wearing any jewelry you can try on different things decide what you like
or don't like. Okay. Then underneath of the avatar you can choose the mouth, you can make
it bigger or smaller. I caution you to change the mouth because if you change the size of
the mouth when he goes to talk later it won't work as well. You can change the nose bigger
nose smaller nose, you can make her body bigger or smaller, you can make are taller or thinner
with her head. When you can decide how wide her head is some options that you have, you
can also choose colors. What color her mouth is. You can choose what color her makeup is,
what color her eyes are, so you've got a lot of different choices depending on how detailed
you want to get with the actual creation of your Voki. And once you've set up this information
for her, go ahead and click done. And then you can give it a voice, you have a few different
choices again, you can record by phone, you can use text-to-speech, you can record using
a microphone or if you already have a file of recorded audio you can use that. In this
case, we are just going to do the text. So we are just going to type in what we want.
Now, remember longer your text is, you are probably going to a word processor to put
your text in. You can only type in I think about 150 characters, but you can actually
use 600. So if you are planning on putting a lot of text in, you want to go into a word
processor type it there and then paste it in here. For our purposes were just can say
Hello. Welcome to class. Once we have our words in, we can choose who's talking and
what language they're talking in. So our accent language is going to be English, although
if we wanted to do Arabic, Chinese etc. This is really good in language classes. You can
do French, Spanish, and the character will speak ín the accent you choose, then you
can choose the voice you want to use. And in the English we have Australian accents,
United States accents, UK accents, you've also got some Scottish accents, you can choose
whatever accent you want. You can click on one of the people, or one of the voices, then
just hit play. "Hello welcome to class", and that will give you a preview of what it to
sound like you don't like the voice you just go in and choose somebody else play. "Hello.
Welcome to class." And so you just keep playing with it until you find the voice that you
like. We'll go with Susan here at the bottom, one more time, "Hello. Welcome to class."
And so if you decide you like that voice; and like I said if you wanted to, you could
use the microphone and record your own voice. A lot of times for personalization that's
a good thing, but if you like to hear your voice, this might be another way to go. If
you wanted to, you can click on effects and then you can change the way it sounds, "Hello.
Welcome to class." And so these are just different versions of that same voice "Hello. Welcome
to class." Depending on you what you're doing. We're going to go back to none. "Hello. Welcome
to class." Then we are going to say we are done with that. Then we can choose what the
background is going to be. We just click on backgrounds and then you can choose indoor,
sports, nightlife, city views, and you have a lot of different backgrounds you can choose.
We are going to do the cruise ship, and then if you wanted to see more or less of her,
you can just move her around, choose the background you like, click done. And then once you're
happy with it - happy with the text, happy with the way she looks, happy the way she
sounds - just click publish. We are going to give this a name and call this tutorial
and save. It tells us our Voki has been saved. We have an embed code here that we can use
to embed it into any HTML code to a webpage, anywhere you can use the HTML coding, you
can also use the link, just come here and click on standard Voki link and then copy
and paste that. If you wanted to use any of these you could use these to also share so
that is about all there is making a Voki.