Switching languages in Captivate

Forum|Forum|18 years ago
October 19, 2007
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Hey Captivaters

I've just started working with Captivate on an eLearning project. I need to make our presentations bilingual (English & French).

What I would like to do is have a user select which language they prefer at the beginning of the presentation, then have the captions change to match their language selection. It would also be neat if I could pass their language selection in through parameters in the HTML page, but that's a bit beyond this project.

There is no audio at this point, and if there were I would simply create a second presentation for the other language.

Is what I'm asking possible?

Thanks!

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Mike_DubAuthor

Participant

Thanks Rick!

I had a feeling that would be the answer. It just seems like overkill to have to create a whole new project simply to change the text inside of the captions.

Oh well.. maybe this could be a "feature request." Listen up, Adobe! :P

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi Mike Dub and welcome to our community

I would think this would require at least two different Captivate files. Each file would be in its own language. At the beginning, you would have a link that would point to the other in the event the user wanted the other language.

Unfortunately there is simply no way to dynamically switch the caption languages within the same movie.

One possibility might be to emulate something like SAP is used with TVs. Insert closed captioning that would present in the secondary language for each slide.

Cheers... Rick

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