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Anonymous
June 14, 2009
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Sound files the user can play freely (in quiz slides)

  • June 14, 2009
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Hi,

I need a solution to embed sound files in slides sothat user can play them over and over if needed.

I'm making language teaching material and I need multiple audio files that can be played freely before answering the question. That is, a number of buttons or players the user can click to listen to a series of sounds, as many times as he wishes, before answering a question.

I found two ways to do something like that

1. Add a button, embed the sound in the succes caption, and for "on success" choose "enable" for that same button. Plus, adding a series of click areas, with option "pause project until user clicks", separated by 0,1 sec. So the user can click as many times as I have different click areas. It works but with severe limitations :
    - it's only limited to the number of click boxes, so it's not properly illimited
    - it makes things complicated and has to be repeated on each slide
    - it does'nt work in quizz slides

2. The second way I found was embedding my sound in a flv or swf. But swf sound continues playing when user jumps to next slide, and flv are not very elegant. In any case, creating swf or flv out of sound files is curbersome and time consuming.

The problem is : for this project, I'm dealing with hundreds of sound files. So not being able to use these sounds directly, the way I need, pretty much makes the creation process a pure nightmare.

If someone has been in the same situation and could help me, that would really make a huge difference.

Thanks

Sebastien

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    Anonymous
    June 14, 2009

    Excellent response. Thanks again!

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    Anonymous
    June 14, 2009

    I guess you should use rollover slidelets and associate your audio files to each slidelet.

    These slidelets could be become active(though they can be made invisible) when user clicks on the rollover area. SO when these slidelets become active they would play the audio associated with them.

    Manish

    http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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    Anonymous
    June 14, 2009

    Manish, you absolutely saved my ... project. That is exactly what I needed to solve my problem.

    In fact (for some Captivating reason) rollover slidelets cannot be embedded in question slides, but rollover images can, and they work just the same and do the trick.

    Thanks a million for this one!

    Sebastien

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