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MomentCam: a photo app that you can use to create animated gifs from a selfie

Posted on February 11, 2014 by

These days, everything’s about this new smartphone app by a developer from China called MomentCam. Chinese photo app developer Hightalk Software Corp. has updated its MomentCam app to include a new feature: it now lets you take a selfie & create comic animated .gif images of yourself.

Perhaps it would be better to backtrack a bit to Oct 2013 when the company released a photo app in Chinese called Mo Man Xiang Ji. That meant “magic man camera”, & the app went viral all over the world, even though it was in not in English.

At that time, it was popular because the app allowed you to take a selfie & navigate to a page where your face was shown transposed on a cartoon character. The real you could then edit the cartoon you by tweaking the face shape, eyebrows & hair, & putting on glasses.

You also got to change the cartoon on which your face was placed & the background for the image. You could then autograph your self-cartoon portrait & share it on social media, use it as your avatar, & so on & so forth.

Hightalk Software recently released the app in English, & they have also added a powerful new animation tool, which, as we said before, helps you create animated emoticons (as in .gif image files).

The way the English version works is about the same as the Chinese one. You go to the emoticons tab & take a selfie, & it’ll automatically be transposed on to a random cartoon character. The only difference is that this one is an animated image that moves.

Again, you may edit the gif from a library of 144 gifs, chose hairstyle, change you face shape & so on, before you share it on social media & use the gif.

photo appThis new animated tool & the gif it creates is ideal for use in messaging apps such as WeChat, & MomentCam does allow you to directly save the gif within the WeChat app so that you don’t have to fire up MomentCam whenever you need to use the gif in a chat.

Oh, & you can even take group photos & have them converted into an animated gif. The app includes hundreds of group designs & fee gift cards. It makes for one heck of an animated greeting card or postcard on behalf of your entire group or family.

Click here to download MomentCam on your iOs device.

Click here to download MomentCam on your Android device.

Image Credit: Google Play/MomentCam

 

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A new smartphone app that turns text into speech

Posted on January 3, 2014 by

Voxdox is a Text To Speech (TTS) app that seems a good product for all the productivity junkies out there. Developed by Root Application LTD & launched in 2013, Voxdox is an application available on both Android & Ios, with a Windows Phone version coming really soon.

What does Voxdox really do? It is a new smartphone app that allows one to turn text into speech. It really is as simple as that. All sorts of file types can be converted into spoken words, in perfectly natural sounding voice, using Voxdox; among them, PDFs, DOCX & even EBook files. With support in 20 different languages & the ability to use your device’s camera to scan images & have them converted into speech makes it complete. The built-in ‘Optical Character Recognition’ eliminates problems with recognizing characters that are on images.

By using Voxdox you can listen to your eBooks or convert files (pdf, docx, txt), papers, articles, contracts and web pages to quality speech using the best TTS voices available in the market today.

The price for this app varies, depending on the platform you happen to be using. At first, both Android & iOS provide you with a free trial that is limited to the conversion of 50 pages. After the trial’s over, a monthly subscription can be bought for a total of US $2.99 on Android & US $1.99 on iOS, though both do offer unlimited text to speech converts via their respective monthly subscription plans. For those who don’t want to commit to monthly subscriptions, there are other packages that can be purchaed for a specific amount of page conversions.

Voxdox has it’s very own document database called VoxBox that allows users to upload your files to their database in order to ensure easy transfer of those files. VoxBox does not have integration with other big name services like Dropbox or Skydrive or any other conventional storage clouds that you tend to use. The app claims to deliver clear speech at different variations of pace that can be changed based on the preference of the user.

Click here for Android version.

Click here for iOS version.

 

Image Credit: Voxdox. Video Credit: YouTube/Voxdox

 

 

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