Editing Voice Principle (section)

=='''Overview'''==
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'''“People learn better when narration is spoken in a human voice rather than in a machine voice.(Mayer, 2014)”'''

Similar to the [https://ectwiki.online/index.php?title=Personalization_Principle Personalization Principle] that a speaker with a conversational style will have more impact on learning than a formal style presentation, the Voice Principle states that learners learn more deeply when being spoken to in a friendly natural human voice than a synthetic computer-generated voices voice. A machine(synthetic computer-generated) voice also means not speaking as if you are a machine, just like how the teacher does in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” which made the lesson boring and tedious and lead to a negative effect on the learning. ‘A friendly human voice’ is emotional, it conveys that someone is speaking directly to you and give you a sense of belonging and social presence.

'''*The Voice Principle''' is one of the [https://ectwiki.online/index.php?title=Mayer%27s_Principles_in_Multimedia_Learning multimedia principles] that assist designers in the planning of instructional multimedia materials to actively engage learners in learning. It is suggested to foster [https://ectwiki.online/index.php?title=Generative_Processing generative processing] in the [https://ectwiki.online/index.php?title=Cognitive_Theory_of_Multimedia_Learning cognitive theory of multimedia learning(CTML)].