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July 11, 2019
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Small font in Slide Notes is killing me.

  • July 11, 2019
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I do a lot of work on technical content, acronyms, and sentences that must be painstakingly edited in Slide Notes (Text-to-Speech) to ensure that when redndered to audio they sound right.   The small font is a constant source of annoyance when editing, especially if I need to select a lower case L or similar character.

Can I increase the size of this font?

Thanks

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cpbrandon
Inspiring
July 12, 2019

Hi! Those are great suggestions from Lilybiri, and a definite solution for the small text.

I simply wanted to suggest something we've used on our team for ensuring words are pronounced correctly in Text-to-Speech. For each voice, there is a user dictionary stored in the Adobe Captivate Voices folder. There are some forum discussion on the topic, but in general below are instructions for accessing and using it. I think this could help you if you are reusing those words you are editing manually in the Slide Notes panel. If they're always new/different, then this may just be a side note.

This is the location/path to the dictionary. Note: I'm running Cp2019 and using Julie TTS voice.

C:\Program Files\Adobe Captivate Voices 2019 x64\VT\Julie\M16\bin

  1. Double-click UserDicEng.exe.
  2. Click File Open(O).
  3. Double-click userdict_eng.
  4. The English User Dictionary Editor will populate with words that are already entered. If the word you are updating is not already listed, click Add Word(D).
  5. In the Source(S) box, enter the word you are updating the pronunciation on and select whether it should be case-sensitive or not.
  6. In the Target(T) box, enter the pronunciation. **You can use letters from the alphabet, or you can use pronunciation symbols. Understanding of phonetic symbols or at least having a resource is beneficial, if you choose that option. Takes a little trial and error, but eventually you can usually find something that works.

 

Lilybiri
Legend
July 12, 2019

Understand your frustration, but do not know about a way to increase the font size<  Using an editor like Notepad and copy/paste could be a workaround. Do you have a two monitor setup (I don't, so couldn't check)? Maybe dragging the slide notes to the second monitor and have that one set up with a lower resolution or a higher display percentage?

David Burnham HBA
Inspiring
July 12, 2019

Brilliant!