Use Animated Characters to Increase Conversion
I have been using Sitepal characters for a while on a couple of my sites. If you want to see them in action:
See The Characters in Action on Live Sites
- Property How To – Parmdeep appears on the home page and we have used his own voice
- The Chain Gang – click on a FAQ question and
Bernard
will speak the answer to you! In this case, the audio is all Text to Speech technology.
In both cases, I set up animated characters to actually look like the site owners just by using tools supplied with Sitepal to change hair, skin and eye-colour, hair style, beards and clothing.
It’s amazing how close to the real person you can get just by using these easy tools.
Roll Your Cursor Over the Image to Hear the Character Speak
The demo on this page uses a technology called “text to speech”. That means it is very simple to have talking animated character speak the text that you type. This can engage your visitors and give them a flavour of who you are.
You can also record your own voice and have the character lip-synch your words.
This is especially effective as it avoids some of the slight awkwardness that occurs when using text to speech as no doubt you have noticed in this demo. This is an amazing technology available to you from Sitepal for a very small subscription. They really have gone out of their way to make this product affordable.
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