Celebrities Chat to UK Video Website at Chelsea Flower Show

(PRWEB) May 29, 2011

An annual event that has always put Britain on the map and has evoked within it a great sense of Britishness is of course the Royal Horticultural Society?s Chelsea Flower Show. Once a year, flower lovers, horticulturists and many proud Britons come to this esteemed event held in the glamorous west London location of Chelsea to witness and experience the beauty and magnificence that the RHS Chelsea Flower Show offers. WinkBall.com, the UK?s no. 1 video site, were of course there to capture all the action and speak to the many who had travelled to see all the beauty of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including a string of celebrities.

WinkBall and its extensive video reporter network spoke to a number of celebrities about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including: British national treasure Barbara Windsor MBE, TV and Radio presenter George Lamb, comedian Rob Brydon, journalist Piers Morgan, television personality Sir Michael Parkinson, DJ Jo Whiley, presenter Gloria Hunniford, comedian Joan Rivers, newsreader Natasha Kaplinksy, medical broadcaster Dr Robert Winston, actress Samantha Bond, antiquities expert Tim Wonnacot, model Yasmin Le Bon, singer Beverley Knight, newsreader Bill Turnbull, designer Bruce Oldfield, actor Christopher Biggins, journalist Diana Moran, British ice dancer Jayne Torvill, Jo McDonald ? wife of newsreader Trevor, TV personality Johnny Ball, writer Julian Fellowes, actress Dame Maggie Smith, TV personality Nancy Dell'olio, DJ Dr Neil Fox, model Nell McAndrew, newsreader Peter Sissons, pop star Will Young, former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips, newsreader Sophie Raworth, footballer Sol Campbell, film and stage actress Sheila Hancock, television producer Phil Redmond, broadcaster and journalist Nigel Slater, newsreader Nicholas Owen and former children?s TV presenter and Lib Dem peer Baroness Floella Benjamin. Speaking to these high profile figures, WinkBall asked them what they love about this fantastic horticultural event and what makes the RHS Chelsea Flower Show such a unique and special event ? and they tell of their secret gardening tips!

Through their unique video coverage, WinkBall captured the splendour and beauty of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show perfectly and gave a fantastic insight into this event via the power of citizen video-vox pop. Commenting on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, celebrities lavished fantastic testimonials onto this distinguished social event. Barbara Windsor MBE spoke on the unique British feel that this event has and commented on the joy it brought out in so many people:

??Because it?s British - it?s English isn?t it? This is a great time: we have this, we have the tennis, and it?s glorious! Look at everybody, everybody has got a smile on their face.?

Sir Michael Parkinson added this about the RHS Chelsea Flower Show: ?It?s a brilliantly conceived show - it?s full of glorious things, full of ideas and it?s in a perfect setting.?

WinkBall?s trained video reporters got the best out of the celebrities invited to this special VIP day, and the subsequent video wall and edited video story presents all of what is so fantastic about this esteemed social event, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Through their insightful, revolutionary and unique video coverage, WinkBall captured the true essence of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and gave a real insight into the event via the emotional power of online video.

To see the many celebrities that WinkBall spoke to at the RHS Chelsea Flower, go to the following link:

http://www.winkball.com/walls/34mGqn6zjv28/chelsea-flower-show-celebrity-day

About WinkBall

WinkBall is the British video network that specialises in capturing the public?s passion at events - as they happen - and providing vox-pop and video services to clients worldwide.

Now the UK?s no. 1 video website, WinkBall?s interactive Video Walls, Blogs, Forums and Messaging technologies create the ultimate online presence by engaging with the people who truly matter. This provides a dynamic, mass media, social and participatory experience to connect with the public and targeted communities. Services include vox-pop creation, consumer interviewing, market research, event coverage, video reporter hire, and business and product videos.

Featured on the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Sky News and many more, WinkBall were also nominated finalists in the PR Week Awards 2010 and the CIPR Excellence Awards, 2010.

The technology was designed and built in London in 2005 as a quintessentially British collaboration between academic inventiveness (Goldsmiths, University of London) and commercial endeavour. Co-founded by Dr James Ohene-Djan and Duncan Barclay and launched 18 months ago, WinkBall.com has had nearly 35 million hits (about 1.25 million regular viewers per month) and has a growth rate of 25% per month.

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Contact WinkBall?s PR, Max Clifford Associates:

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NextUp.com Launches YouTube Channel Featuring TextAloud Video Tutorials

Clemmons, NC (PRWEB) July 07, 2011

PC users who turn to the Text to Speech software TextAloud for listening to text can now get dynamic how-to video tips, as well! Text to Speech leader NextUp.com has announced the launch of its own YouTube Channel, which features a growing assortment of helpful video tutorials on using TextAloud, NextUp.com's most popular software title.

"The launch of our YouTube Channel is an exciting opportunity for NextUp.com in serving the global community of TextAloud users," comments NextUp.com President Rick Ellis. "It enables us to share helpful video tutorials on an ongoing basis, while maintaining the opportunity for feedback and communication with those who use our software firsthand."

Priced from $ 29.95, TextAloud enables users to listen to their reading via PC, or by exporting their reading to spoken audio files for listening on most popular portable devices, from MP3 players to iPods (R), iPhones (R), and beyond. As the first instructional YouTube videos demonstrate, TextAloud is easy and flexible, and seamlessly works to help PC users listen to their reading from most text and document formats, from Microsoft Word (R), to ASCII, web or e-mail text, PDF documents and more. With TextAloud, users can accomplish a wide variety of tasks, from listening to reading for entertainment, to proofing or studying by ear, and more.

NextUp.com's YouTube Video Channel is located at http://www.youtube.com/user/NextUpcom. The first videos to appear on the channel demonstrate how to easily accomplish some of TextAloud's most popular tasks, from "Listening to PDF Documents with TextAloud," to "Listening to Word Documents with TextAloud," or tips on "Using TextAloud's Pronunciation Editor." The Channel also offers an overview of TextAloud's uses for users with visual or learning and reading disabilities, as well.

"The launch of our YouTube channel helps us to continue our mission at NextUp.com to help users 'listen and learn anywhere," adds Ellis, "as well as helping us to bring new, affordable and highly useful Text to Speech technologies and applications to users worldwide."

NextUp.com has several additional videos in the works now, and plans to launch additional videos to the channel on a regular basis in the months to come.

About TextAloud:

With a completely new interface including more personalization options than ever before, TextAloud is the highly useful PC program for students, scientists, writers, business users, students and people from all walks of life. TextAloud enables anyone to experience their reading by listening, and has been featured in The New York Times, PC Magazine, Writer's Digest, on CNN, and more.

Hailed by critics and users alike, TextAloud is priced from $ 29.95. System requirements include almost any version of Windows (R) (from 98 to Me, NT, 2000, XP or Vista), as well as a minimum of 64 MB of RAM, 10 MB of disk space, and a sound card. TextAloud even works seamlessly with iTunes (R), for easy synchronizing with iPod (R), iPhone (R), or other iTunes (R)-compatible portable audio players, and unlike often prohibitively priced gadgets or eReaders, TextAloud doesn't require special hardware of any kind. Follow the latest news from TextAloud at http://www.Facebook.com/TextAloud, or try the program today, via a fast, safe and secure preview and purchase at http://www.NextUp.com.

NextUp.com also offers TextAloud with optional Premium Voices from Nuance RealSpeak (TM), AT&T Natural Voices (TM), Acapela (R) and Cepstral (R) for the most natural-sounding computer speech anywhere. Available languages include U.S. English, U.K. English, Indian-Accent English, Scottish-Accent English, Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Belgian Dutch, Faroese, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Castilian (European) Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, and Turkish.

About NextUp.com:

NextUp.com, a division of NextUp Technologies, LLC, provides award-winning Text to Speech software for consumers, professionals, businesses, educators, and those with visual or vocal impairment, or learning disabilities.

In addition to TextAloud, NextUp.com markets other innovative Windows (R) software designed to save time and deliver vital information. NextUp Talker is an easy and affordable program that enables people who have lost their voices to use the latest in high-quality computer voices to communicate aloud with others.

Evaluation copies of TextAloud are available for the media upon request. For more information on NextUp.com or TextAloud, or for a rich assortment of case studies involving users ranging from firefighters and lawyers, to writers, editors, teachers, actors, students, entrepreneurs, doctors, truck drivers, musicians, and more, please contact publicist Angela Mitchell at (904) 982-8043.

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