Multiple language support

[Vikram_Kamath]

I want to create video tutorials in multiple languages.

For example: I have generated text-to-speech in English language. However, I am not able to do the same in other languages like German and French.

Is it possible in Captivate or is there any other tool to do this?

Thank you!

[Vikram_Kamath]

I could install English speech agents and do text-to-speech conversion in Adobe Captivate 2017.

Do we get such speech agents for other language scripts as well?

[Lilybiri]

You could buy more voices from NeoSpeech.

[Vikram_Kamath]

Thank you Lilybiri.

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

Neospeech no longer exists as a company. They have been absorbed by ReadSpeaker. It's uncertain if purchasing a voice from ReadSpeaker would work with Captivate's inbuilt text to speech functionality. The next major version of Captivate might provide an alternative but that doesn't help you today.

While text to speech is very affordable it is proven to be ineffective at contributing to really good eLearning. I would recommend working with an agency that does localization professionally. Sure you will pay more but you will get a better product in return. An example of such a company would be https://www.ingenuiti.com.  

[Vikram_Kamath]

Thank you Sir, I have watched many of your Captivate videos in Youtube.

Hope this is addressed in next Captivate versions.

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

How many languages do you want to support?

[Vikram_Kamath]

German and French to start with.

Later for Spanish(Modern), Italian, Chinese(Traditional and Simplified), Korean, and Portuguese for Brazil.

[Paul Wilson CTDP · Accepted solution]

Captivate does come with a French voice (Chloe) and a Korean voice (Yumi) so that would leave you with having to purchase about half a dozen additional voices (if they are available). Check this link: VoiceText. This is the product that used to be under Neospeech and the same source for the Adobe Captivate text-to-speech. When I looked into this about five years ago, Neospeech informed me that additional speech agents are about USD 1,000 per voice. You'd be looking at $6,000 for the voices. You would still need to hire a localization service to translate all the text into those languages. It's been my experience that this can be many hundreds of dollars per project per language. You might be better off hiring a full localization company to do all the work for you.

[Vikram_Kamath]

Thanks a lot for your valuable inputs. I would explore this and decide. Thanks again.

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

You're welcome.

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

I also wouldn't hold your breath for Adobe to work on improving this feature in future versions. Text-to-speech is considered to be very low in quality and most quality eLearning courses use proper voice talent to record their narration for them.