There are many ways to add an accent mark to your text-to-speech audio for your Voki, but this a the coolest tip we found on our Teacher’s Corner Forum.

It looks like a great way to avoid copying and pasting from Word, you can just enter these ALT codes.  Here’s how it works:

“When Num Lock is turned on, students can hold down the ALT key while typing a 4-digit number on the right-hand number pad (NOT the regular numbers which run straight across the top of the keyboard) and it will make the desired character. Examples:

ALT 0231 = ç (c cedilla)

ALT 0232 = è (e grave)”

So, let’s say you want your Voki to recite an excerpt from Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Arbolé, Arbolé . . .”

Here’s what you’d like your Voki to read:

Arbolé, arbolé,
seco y verdí.

La niña del bello rostro
está cogiendo aceituna.
El viento, galán de torres,
la prende por la cintura.
Pasaron cuatro jinetes
sobre jacas andaluzas,
con trajes de azul y verde,
con largas capas oscuras.

Here’s how it would look if you were to type it out using ALT codes:

ArbolALT+130, arbolALT+130,
seco y verdALT+161.

La niALT+164a del bello rostro
estALT+160 cogiendo aceituna.
El viento, galALT+160n de torres,
la prende por la cintura.
Pasaron cuatro jinetes
sobre jacas andaluzas,
con trajes de azul y verde,
con largas capas oscuras.

And here’s an example, using on of the Voki Spanish voices.

You can find the full list of French accent ALT codes here and Spanish accent ALT codes here.

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