Adobe Captivate 12.5: Pioneering a new era of AI-driven eLearning!

[sharath ramaswamy]

We are thrilled to announce Adobe Captivate 12.5 with AI Voices, bringing our very first AI feature to the table!  

And that’s not all.  We have packed in some more fantastic updates to make creating courses easier, faster, and more fun. From AI Voices that bring your scripts to life, to Web Objects for adding live content, and features like exporting your design settings, adding headers and footers, and using Adobe Fonts  there’s so much to explore. Oh, and don’t miss the new Accordion Widget for layering information in style. Let’s jump in and see how you can kickstart 2025 using all these cool new features in Adobe Captivate 12.5.

AI Voices:

Say goodbye to monotonous, robotic narration. With Adobe Captivate’s AI Voices, you can now create, engaging audio content that resonates with your audience. It’s simple. Just type your script, choose from a variety of natural-sounding voices, and let AI do the magic. Whether you need a warm conversational tone, a crisp instructional delivery, or a voice full of enthusiasm – we’ve got you covered.

Web Objects:

Elevate your learner experience by connecting them to the vast resources of the web from within your course. Web objects are external web-based elements that you can embed into your Adobe Captivate projects. You can now offer your learners access to interactive and real-time resources of the web such as websites, web applications, videos, live feeds, or other web-hosted resources without leaving the course.

Header and Footer Branding Blocks:

Maintain a strong and consistent brand identity and give your courses a polished and cohesive look using branding blocks. The Header and Footer branding blocks allow you to display consistent branding elements, such as logos, taglines, navigation aids, or company contact information, at the top and bottom of your eLearning slides. You can also insert dynamic elements using variables to personalize the learning experience. These blocks are easy to customize, ensuring they align with your organization’s style guidelines and course objectives.

Import/export Custom Design Options:

Creating eLearning content that stands out often requires customization, from personalized color schemes to unique layouts and branded themes. The Import/export Custom Design Options feature allows you to export your custom design options from one Captivate project and import them into another. Whether you’re working on multiple projects within the same organization or collaborating with other designers, this functionality enables seamless sharing and reuse of design options, eliminating the need to recreate them from scratch.

Integrating Adobe Fonts:

Typography plays a pivotal role in creating engaging and visually appealing eLearning courses. You can now enhance your Captivate projects with Adobe Fonts, which is a comprehensive font library that provides access to thousands of high-quality fonts. Once installed, these fonts will be accessible under a dedicated Adobe Fonts section within the Visual Properties panel for any text block.

Accordion Widget: 

We’ve also added a brand-new Accordion Widget. It’s perfect for breaking down information into bite-sized, clickable sections. Think step-by-step guides or interactive FAQs – all in one tidy place. The new Accordion widget allows you to present content in a collapsible format, providing learners with the ability to explore information at their own pace while keeping the screen tidy and organized.

Rename Text Presets:

Text presets are time-saving templates for text formatting that can be reused throughout your course.  And we’ve made text presets more flexible. You can rename them to match your workflow, keeping things organized and stress-free. Consistent naming conventions make it easier for collaborators to understand and use text presets throughout the project.

Accessibility Enhancements:

You can now configure a global speech agent language for your projects. This feature streamlines the workflow by enabling authors to set the language once, while still allowing the option to override it for specific components. Global settings will not affect pre-configured elements, ensuring that any prior customizations remain unchanged.

Update to the new Adobe 12.5 version:

Click here to access the latest Adobe Captivate 12.5 versions of both Windows and macOS.

New to Captivate, try the free 30-day-trial:

You can also download a free 30-day trial of this update. Credit card information is NOT required.

We value your feedback!

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for future improvements, please don't hesitate to contact support at CaptivateHelp@adobe.com or submit your enhancement request at the Adobe Captivate UserVoice page.

We're excited for you to explore the new features and enhancements in Adobe Captivate 12.5, and we look forward to hearing about your experiences. Stay tuned for more updates and thank you for choosing Adobe Captivate.

Cheers!

Sharath Ramaswamy
Sr. Evangelist for Adobe Captivate

[clairei13374473]

When I click "Click here to access the latest Adobe Captivate 12.5 versions of both Windows and macOS." , it only shows 12.4. When will 12.5 be available?

[Saurav_Ghosh]

Hi @clairei13374473 it will be available shortly. Meanwhile, you can also download 12.5 from https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/help/captivate-downloads.html

Let us know if you need more details on any other feature.

[Erika32960507zpg5]

It's possible to import a .srt file for captions. You can use captions to generate the text-to-speech. I would like to:

- Import .srt file to a slide

- Use those captions to generate text-to-speech

However, when I try this - I get the message that the .srt is longer than the audio. If I try to add an audio placeholder, and then upload the .srt then there's no longer an option to generate-text-to-voice. Is there a way to achieve this currently?

[Tobias319480520bco]

Some very interesting new features. But seems like the export/import feature is not fully working for me. It tells me a folder is missing, so I can't export the design options. 

[Melodic_coder1587]

Is it possible to download the previous version? My projects aren't working correctly in the new one.

[jose_demetrio_2311]

The AI voices do not appear in my voices panel after installing 12.5 update version. Tried a few times, no success. Any solutions to this?

[jose_demetrio_2311]

I found the answer to this myself: our IT team had to write a script in the proxy settings to bypass the Adobe addresses and enable the domains that load the AI voices.

[diana_3262]

Hello! I looked for updates through the app, help. the intallation reached 100% but got an error. I have attached the screen shot.  

[Terry Freelander]

I can't believe that you are all so proudly advertising these changes, which are great to see but it is really frustrating when fundamental issues are being completely ignored. 

These changes are insignificant when compared with the need to fix how Captivate 12 handles video but it seems like it has not even been looked at in the feature request forum and my posts here are being ignored too.

Captivate 12 messes up how video is displayed on different devices to the point where I would describe it as a bug that needs immediate attention rather than a feature request or improvement. It is currently impossible to design a course that has video without it looking totally unprofessional and so terrible that it is impossible to use.

In Articualte Rise it has been possible to add responsive video that doesn't have an awful black wrapper around for years so why can't Adobe Captivate manage such a simple task?

You really need to focus on allowing video to be added so that it resizes to fit the dimensions of the screen with adding these ridiculously huge bars top and bottom or left and right (depending on the whether the screen is portrait or landscape).

[clairei13374473]

The footer option SEEMS to supposed to have buttons available- such as 2 buttons for backwards and forwards movement. I do not see these options. 

"The Header and Footer branding blocks allow you to display consistent branding elements, such as logos, taglines, navigation aids, or company contact information, at the top and bottom of your eLearning slides."

It would be nice to have these buttons available. I know I can just create the buttons myself, but that takes up space when making a "non scrolling" eLearning, if I also wanted the footer.