Slide Notes vs Speech Management and Audio Management?

[clwork]

I'm writing up a Text to Speech tutorial for my coworkers for Adobe Captivate 8. I'm trying to come up with a proper outline. I'm running into questions because I see that the Slide Notes option and the Speech Management option almost brings me to the same place. But after a closer look I see that the Slide Notes option will only bring up the Text to Speech for that specific slide that I am in, whereas, the Speech Management option will bring up all of the Text to Speech that has been applied to every slide. Am I correct?   As a result I should always start with the Slide Notes option? Speech Management is a way for me to edit all of the Text to Speech from one location for the entire Adobe Captivate 8 project instead of going from slide to slide. Does this sound right?

Okay, my next question is, what should I do the Advanced Audio Management for?

Thanks.

[RodWard]

I generally only use the Speech Management dialog to regenerate TTS across the entire project.  I don't edit the text there because there's no way to see what's going on with the slide.  So I prefer to do all my editing of the text on the actual slides.

[Lilybiri]

Another advantage of using the Slide Notes is that they can also be used for CC. Sometimes I use CC for translation subtitles, doing this slide by slide in the Slide Notes makes for an easy work flow.

Advanced Audio Management gives you a great overview, especially useful when you have not only slide audio but also object audio. It shows all details of each audio clip, allows you to edit it immediately. I just wished it was linked dynamically to the slides as is the Advanced Interaction panel, one of my favorites.

[clwork]

By "object audio" do you mean the audio embedded inside of an object within Captivate's library that is being used on a slide?

[Lilybiri]

Object audio is audio attached to an object (when that object has no fill nor stroke, I refer to it as an audio object). Contrary to slide audio which has a separate timeline and an icon in the filmstrip, the only indicator for object audio is a tiny audio icon on the object timeline, easy to miss; that is why the Audio Management is so useful.

Audio Objects: Control them! - Captivate blog

Object audio is the only way to have two or more audio clips playing at the same time (with restriction for those mobile devices which do not allow more than one audio clip). You can control them very easily (by hiding/showing the object) but the built-in CC feature is not available for object audio.

[clwork]

So in other words, an audio object is an invisible object that is placed in the slide as a means of holding audio?

I will read your link.

Thanks.

[Lilybiri]

That is just my personal way to differentiate: any visible object can have audio attached, even feedback messages (which do not have a separate timeline, no indicator whether they have audio or not). When I need only audio, with more control than is possible for slide audio, I will use an 'audio object', which means an object that is not 'visible' to the user but can nevertheless be hidden/shown to have the audio play or not.

[BDuckWorks]

You're on the right track: Slide Notes are slide specific, and Speech Management is project wide.

If you enter text into slide notes, visit each slide and mark the text as TTS, you can then use Speech Management to batch create all the audio via TTS.

You should still visit each slide again and add a gap of .5 seconds minimum before and after the generated audio, else captivate will publish a single audio file for the whole project which will likley surface as timing problems when published and reviewed.