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Jonas Uddman
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February 19, 2014
Question

Is Captivate not compatible with IVONAs SAPI5 voices?

  • February 19, 2014
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Hi!

I am using Captivate 6 and TTS to create training material. I've tried 5 voices from Neospeech but they all sound too much like a computer. I read that Captivate works with SAPI5-compatible voices so I bought a SAPI5-voice from IVONA (Amy).

I read about the issue that IVONA voices needs to be selected as default in Windows, but that was easily done. The voice sounds very well. My problem is that I can not control the pronounciation?

The pronounciation of Neospeech voices could be controlled using VTML-tags. Unfortunatelly there was no tag for emphasis so the control was quite limited.

I tried to use both VTML-tags and SAPI5-tags to control the pronounciation of IVONA-voice in Captivate but whatever I do, the voice reads all tags out loud, not following them. I even tried to add extra "." and "," to create a pause between sentences but nothing works.

To make sure the problem was not with the voice I tried SAPI-tags in the TTS-editor from IVONA and it worked well.

Any idea how to control pronounciation of IVONA voices in Captivate?

Best regards

/Jonas

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Jonas UddmanAuthor
Participant
February 25, 2014

Hi again!
Just an update. I contacted Adobe support and their answer was that third party voices can be used in Captivate but there is no way to control the pronounciation or adding pauses in Captivate. This is only possible for Neospeech voices where you may use VTML-tags. According to me that means that Captivate is NOT really compatible with 3rd party voices, SAPI5-complient or not.

The 5-6 included voices from Neospeech all sound too robotic and my client was amused rather than impressed when hearing them. I really wanted to use a quality voice and bought Amy from IVONA. I am very disappointed that it can't be used easily in Captivate. The work around is to record a sound-file for each page and import, which will take twice as long for each page and be harder to keep updated.

Best regards

Jonas

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GoodnWise
Participating Frequently
April 11, 2014

Jonas, were you ever able to get Captivate to recognize the 3rd party voices? The only SAPI 5 voices I can get Captivate to recognize is Microsoft Anna and Microsoft Lili. I spent 15 min on the phone with Captivate Tech support, but we couldn't get it to recognize any other of my SAPI 5 voices (other than the NeoSpeech voices that come with Captivate). Has anyone else on the forum had success with Captivate's Speech Management recognizing other SAPI 5 voices? How did you do it?

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Sreekanth_S
Legend
April 11, 2014

Have you tried Cereproc voices?

Check out this thread for more info.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5179479#5179479

Sreekanth

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