Voki

Voki: Give a face to your voice

With animations and 3D effects taking over the world, here is a tool which allows you to create an avatar for your voice. With the help of Voki, a teacher can create an avatar of self and give voice to it. It can be used to give instructions or homework to the students. 

The teachers can make use of Voki with the students for the practice of speaking skills. It motivates the students to practice the piece they are to record and then enjoy creating and assigning an avatar for it. Once the avatar is created and the voice is recorded, it can then be shared with the teacher or the entire class. The voki can either be published on a social media website such as Facebook, Blogs, Edmodo, etc or emailed to the receiver.

Using Voki is very simple and easy, and yes, it is for FREE! However, very long recordings cannot be made. The free version allows you to record for 60 seconds and an upgrade by purchase gives 90 seconds in total. Therefore, a teacher has to be very careful in assigning speaking tasks bearing in mind the limitation of time per recording.

Click on 'Create' to create your avatar and record your voice. Although there is also an option to write a text which will then be spoken by the inbuilt Voki voice as per the text.

Once the avatar has been created and the recording is made, it can be published.

A sign-up helps to create an account and store all the recording made using Voki.

I made use of Voki by assigning a homework task to the students.

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

Voki also offers two additional features, that is, Voki Classroom and Voki Presenter. A user can have an access to these features only once the feature has been purchased.

I really enjoyed creating the task using Voki, as the character or avatar designing was quite fun.

Here is a video to show how Voki can be used:

I hope you and your students enjoy this tool, as much as I do. I look forward to your thoughts!