Voki

What is Voki?

Voki is a website that enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. 

For the visual part, you can customize your Voki in many aspects, for example you can choose your favorite character, the background picture, you can choose his/her clothes and even the color of the eyes.

And when it comes to voice, you can either directly record yourself speaking on Voki, or you can upload a recording, and you can also choose another voice and type your sentences so that he/she would read it for you.

After finishing your Voki, you can send a link to others' email or embed it into your own blog or your face book account.

How to use Voki?

Why language teachers should use Voki?

What are the limitations of Voki?

• The recording is limited to only one minute, which is too short for speaking practice. But if you pay and become a member, you can get more time to speak and record.
• There are so many options for customization that young learners may be easily distracted to the look of the characters rather than focus on speaking practice.
• It seems you can only embed one Voki in one post, you can't do more in one post.
• At least on my computer, the recording doesn't go well, therefore, I made a recording on Vocaroo and then upload it on Voki. Hopefully, it works well on others'.