SitePal - Add Speaking Characters to your Sales Site

One way to attract sales is to have an impressive web site. That said, there are lots of technologies that will allow you to attract visitors and to turn them into customers. At www.SitePal.com they provide a service that allows you to create animated speaking characters. The Avatars can be used in professional and personal applications.

Easy to use

The interface makes designing and publishing the characters easy to accomplish.

Programming knowledge is not necessary. Yet if you have programming skills you can interface with programming languages.

Design Elements

Here are some of the features that you have available:

Animated Characters – create and customize, control position, size, and animation including the behavior and interaction with other characters if available.

Audio Messages – tailor the characters to speak about the content of your site; you can add audio, professional voice-over speech, even computer generated audio.

Background Images – add them to characters.

Publish and Manage the Characters

Besides adding the characters to Web Pages here are some of the other things that you can do. With eBay, you can include your characters as part of eBay auctions. With Flash and PowerPoint, you can integrate your characters into movies or presentations.

Sales Elements

Some sales features include the ability to create a virtual sales staff that can promote your website content either the products or services. Also the online help element includes interactive assistants who can answer user questions or direct visitors to specific areas of your site.  Another area of online help can make your product support distinct. You can use an Artificial Intelligence online customer service agent. This can allow your customers to ask questions that have not specifically been address in a FAQ.  For example see: http://vhost.oddcast.com/support/examples/API/sayAIResponse/sayAIResponse.html.

You can also create an auctioneer for eBay auctions. See http://www.sitepal.com/demoMovies/ebay_demo/ebay_movie.swf

Compatibility

This product works with any Windows based web browser. It also works with Mac web browsers. Your internet connection is not limited to cable. It works with broadband and dial-up connections. Audio streaming technology is provided to guarantee optimal performance. No installation is required so it is compatible with any web site and web hosting service. And it works with PHP, ASP, JSP, Python and Perl and other programming languages.

Cost

There are three service packages at this time, Bronze, silver, and gold. Each has their own price structure, but you can get started for 15 days with a free version.The Bronze package includes: 1500 streams per month and you can choose 18 models to work with. You can create 5 scenes. The Silver package includes 4,000 streams per month and 18 models to work with.  You can create 10 scenes. In the Gold package you can create 15,000 streams per month, and you have 57 different models to use.

• Each package starts with four basic features: design speaking characters with voice recordings using a phone or a microphone. You have the capability to publish to any web page, and it can be joined to a PowerPoint presentation.
• The silver and gold package also includes the ability to take ordinary text amd move it to speech. You have collection forms for leads, FAQ, and you can publish your avatars to eBay.
• Finally the Gold package includes flash integration, artificially intelligence chat, and the SitePal brand logo does not appear.

Serious sellers would do well to consider if this speech facility would increase their online sales. The 15 day free trial may not be enough time to gauge its effects, but the slightly more bronze package might afford you that testing time period you require.

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