Captivate 2017 crashes when copying text into the Speech Management pane. Any ideas?

I've copied plain text and formatted text and if its more than a paragraph or so I get the same error. Running as admin doesn't help. There is a workaround however, if you just need the audio clips to be read. Sometimes, after the crash, you can load the backup file generated by the crash and it will have saved the mp3/wav audio. Depends if you managed to generate audio before the crash or not.

I'm not sure why there's a per slide text-tospeech limit, but it should be implemented in a text field limiter, rather than the crash logs. featurerequest​

This also becomes a problem when converting a Captivate file from Captivate 9 (or older probably) > Captivate 2017.

If one of the slides has more than the (unknown) word limit in slide notes, when converted to CP2017, that slide will crash every time you try to select it from the filmstrip. To resolve this, you need to split the original slide note into smaller chunks, prior to converting it to CP2017.

If you are running Windows, it is recommended that you run Adobe Captivate with administrator rights enabled for the application. In my experience, this eliminates many application crashes that occur with certain activities within Captivate.