Narakeet review by Paolo Amoroso

Paolo Amoroso - Astronomy & Space Populariser

Narakeet is an impressive web tool for making narrated videos. What sets it apart is the ability to automate most or all of the production steps. From generating visuals, adding background music, and synchronizing media to synthesizing voice over narration.

I think the tool could be great for quickly putting together instructional or marketing videos, tutorials, demos, and more. The narration features leverage some of the best machine-generated voice synthesis systems in the industry like Amazon Polly and IBM Watson Text to Speech. Although Narakeet’s over a hundred voice models in more than 20 languages are very natural-sounding and lifelike, it’s possible to provide recordings of your own voice narration.

To create a video, upload a PowerPoint presentation with the slides containing the visuals and the voice over text in the speaker notes. Or write script files using a Markdown dialect with additional formatting directives for controlling presentation and narration.

Once a project is ready, rendering a video takes from a few to several minutes. Narakeet simplifies the publishing process, too. Through suitable presets and PowerPoint templates, it lets you select the best video size for sharing on the major video hosting and social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and others.

👍👍👍 /5