Breaking Up One Long Audio File Into Segments

The problem is that if that audio is associated with the slide, the entire audio file must first play out before you can pause the playback. As far as I know, there is no simple way to stop audio playback in the middle of the slide without user interaction (clicking on a button or clickbox, which would invoke an Advanced Action that pauses playback).

I would try to make six copies of the same slide. I'd remove audio from all but second slide. I would then set the audio markers so that each slide after that second one begins at the specific point in time from that audio (go 'Audio', then 'Edit...', then 'Project'. Arrow right to the first slide of this group; listen to the audio, then move slide markers to the beginning points of the audio for each slide (Ctrl+5)). This way, I have the single audio file spread across five slides.

All that's left to do is to create click boxes over those speaker icons and point them to each respective slide. For each click box, I'd change "On Success" action to "Jump to Slide". For each slide, I'd change the "On Exit" action to jump to the slide following all these. That way, if a user clicks on any of the speaker icons, he will be taken to the slide corresponding to that banner, and the audio will play back from that particular part, will only play the relevant segment and will stop at the end of that segment. If they click on the 'Next' or 'Continue' (or whatever you label your navigation buttons), he'll to the next slide in the module.

Obviously, if you can break up that audio into individual segments, you can associate each segment with its own slide. The rest of the process still applies.

There may be a simpler solution, but this is what I could come up with, considering my limited experience with Captivate.