{"id":134,"date":"2015-11-04T23:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2023-06-13T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:37:33","slug":"speechcrafter-editor-released-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/speechcrafter-editor-released-to-public\/","title":{"rendered":"SpeechCrafter Editor Released to Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been\u00a0writing using a word processor, or\u00a0creating presentations in presentation software, you&#8217;ve been doing it the hard way.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmOCZ0mETD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Traditional office software does <em><strong>nothing<\/strong> <\/em>to help you make a good impression.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve written lots of sales letter, speeches, and lesson\u00a0outlines. I always tried to include little notes and visual cues to make sure I was properly applying the <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/the-8-essential-principles-to-great-communication\/\">8 SpeechDeck principles<\/a> properly.<\/p>\n<p>Using traditional office software I could only do it by improvising with all kinds of little-known, cumbersome features, so I decided to create my own.<\/p>\n<p>I used the first version of my new SpeechDeck editor exclusively for myself and to help my private clients. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be honest. I was actually shocked, that the few people who used it actually preferred it to a word processor.<\/p>\n<p>It became such an integral part of my personal classroom and speech preparations, that I decided\u00a0to release it to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, we&#8217;ve taken everything we learned, and redesigned it from scratch. It has become incredibly powerful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrated content card outlines<\/li>\n<li>Integrated SpeechDeck technique cards<\/li>\n<li>Color coding<\/li>\n<li>Drag &amp; drop editing<\/li>\n<li>Auto-backup and auto-save<\/li>\n<li>Accessible on any device in the cloud<\/li>\n<li>Illustration database and\u00a0tagging<\/li>\n<li>Reusable illustrations<\/li>\n<li>Templating<\/li>\n<li>Presentation mode<\/li>\n<li>Custom print styles<\/li>\n<li>Export &amp; import<\/li>\n<li>Collapsable outline trees<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard shortcuts<\/li>\n<li>Offline editing<\/li>\n<li>SpeechDeck Assistant step-by-step\u00a0coaching<\/li>\n<li>Scratch tab for brainstorming<\/li>\n<li>and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, I would like to announce that version 2.0 is ready for the public.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see video demonstrations of any of the above features, watch the tutorials on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqmv3l3DX7uNQXl8C39BhVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who purchases, or has already purchased the SpeechDeck essentials\u00a0deck (digital or physical) will have immediate access to a limited-feature version of the editor after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speechdeck.com\/login.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">logging in to your dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Auto-saving to cloud storage, the scratch tab, and some other advanced features are available with a SpeechCrafter monthly subscription. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speechdeck.com\/app.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for membership details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you learn the power of the SpeechCrafter editor, you&#8217;ll never go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been\u00a0writing using a word processor, or\u00a0creating presentations in presentation software, you&#8217;ve been doing it the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelspeaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}