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LynnxKay
Inspiring
June 4, 2014
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Text to speech in slidelet

  • June 4, 2014
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Hello,

Here is my situation:

I have a grayscale image on a slide that is accompanied with text-to-speech audio. I want to be able to roll over 3 areas (top, middle, bottom) and the rollover will

  1. change that part of the image to color,
  2. put up a descriptive caption next to the portion of the image that is colored
  3. have the caption read using text-to-speech

I tried making a slidelet to show the colored version of the top portion, but when I put the colored  image in, it was behind the grayscale image. I made sure the slidelet was above the grayscale image in the timeline, but still the colored version didn't show up.

Also, how do I add TTS for the slidelet? When I'm in the slidelet and open slide notes, it shows me audio for the whole slide. Any changes I make seem to affect the entire slide, not just the slidelet.

I'm a novice to all of this, so feel free to speak slowly to me.

Thanks for any help!

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Correct answer RodWard

You can only play audio at runtime that has already been recorded and uploaded.  You cannot generate Text-to-Speech at runtime (though it would be really groovy).

You can only show or hide objects on the slide currently being viewed.  Your advanced actions will not affect any slides that are not currently on the timeline.

If you want an interactive object (e.g. your X) in the corner of a text caption, you would need to group those two objects (text caption and a Shape button with an X as its text), give the Group an ID, and then use the Shape button to trigger an advanced action that HIDES the grouped object.

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LynnxKayAuthor
Inspiring
June 4, 2014

I have another question, for anyone who may read this! In another slide, I want text boxes to show when buttons are clicked. I added click boxes wrote  simple Advanced Actions to show text captions and hide other text captions when the boxes are clicked. Is there a way to put TTS audio in the Advanced Action so the text is read when the box is clicked? The only option I see is to Play recorded audio.

Also I'd like to have a little X in the corner of the text captions so the user can click it to close the caption. This seems like it ought to be easy, but I'm coming up blank.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 5, 2014

You can only play audio at runtime that has already been recorded and uploaded.  You cannot generate Text-to-Speech at runtime (though it would be really groovy).

You can only show or hide objects on the slide currently being viewed.  Your advanced actions will not affect any slides that are not currently on the timeline.

If you want an interactive object (e.g. your X) in the corner of a text caption, you would need to group those two objects (text caption and a Shape button with an X as its text), give the Group an ID, and then use the Shape button to trigger an advanced action that HIDES the grouped object.

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