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Text to speech and Insert Silence

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
August 12, 2010
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Hi

We have been working on make a demo with animated powerpoint and for audio we are using text to speech. We would like to add some pause or silence between the slides.

I went to edit audio and added insert silence for desired time, but once the audio file is saved it it not retaining the silence.

And other issue we have is when the demo is played on some machines, the last word gets truncated and goes to next slide.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

We are using the trial version and planning to buy if everything works out well and will be using this for all our demos.

Thanks

Sirni

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rgaeding

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I've used

<vtml_pause time="1000"/> for Neospeech,

but it still puts in empty/quiet time. This is inadvertantly deleted by Captivate, with ensuing speech cutoff.

It would be real nice if users did not have to do any of this fixing, if Adobe added a 1 sec pause at front and back of all audio.

This pause should have some noise so that it is not truncated by the program.

I hope they do. Its getting very tiresome.

Captiv8r

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Hello and welcome to our community

Captivate has always been "helpful" in automatically trimming away silence at the very beginning or the very end of an audio clip. And it doesn't matter if you specifically added it in or not.

The trick for coaxing Captivate not to undo your efforts is to position the insertion point (cursor or playhead) just a fuzz before the actual end of the clip or just after the start. Once you insert the silence there it should retain your added silence.

You may even wish to consider copying some of the "white noise" and repeatedly pasting it in to create the desired "Silence", because true dead silence can be a bit unnerving. Especially if you are listening via headphones.

Cheers... Rick

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You said ""helpful" in automatically trimming away silence" - I think it would be "helpful" if we had a simple control character, or other "silence" word we could simply type into to the "Text-to-Speech" management area.

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Anonymous

Hi there,

You can add "Silence tags ( or pause tags)" inside the Text used for conversion. Refer to the following blog posts for more details

1. If you are using Captivate 4 : http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/04/vtml_tags_in_text_to_speech_1.html

2. If you are using Captivate 5: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/08/editing-text-to-speech-text-for-loquendo-voices-in-captivate-5.html

Let us know if you used them and how they worked for you.

Thanks

Ashwin Bharghav B

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