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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is the industry-leading solution for authoring E-learning content. With adobe Captivate one can capture the on-screen action, enhance e-Learning projects, insert SCORM and AICC-compliant quizzes and then, publish your work in various formats for easy deployment on virtually any desktop and mobile device. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 is a comprehensive guide to creating SCORM-compliant demonstrations, simulations and quizzes with Adobe Captivate. The sample projects demonstrate each and every feature of Adobe Captivate giving you the expertise you need to create and deploy your own professionalquality e-learning courses. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 will guide you through the creation of three e-learning projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a SCORM-compliant quiz. The first part of the book will drive you through the main three steps of the Captivate production process. In the first step, we will use the powerful capture engine of Captivate to generate the needed slides and screenshots. In the second step, we will enhance our slides and screenshots using the objects provided by Captivate. These objects include animations, interactions, videos and more. In the third step, we will make our project available to the outside world by publishing it in various formats including Adobe Flash PDF, video, and even HTML 5. The second part of the book will focus on the advanced tools of Captivate. These tools include the questions slides that make up a quiz, SCORM and AICC compliance, localization of your e-Learning content and widgets among others. In the last chapter, you we will unleash the true power of Captivate by using the variables and the advanced actions to create a unique e-Learning experience.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 6
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using Text-to-Speech to generate narration


Text-to-Speech was a new feature of Captivate 4. The idea is to type the voice-over narration in the Slide Notes panel and have Captivate convert it to a sound clip. To convert typed text to sound clips, Captivate uses some preinstalled voices called Speech Agents.

Installing the Captivate Speech Agents

Due to their very large size, Adobe decided to make the installation of the Text-to-Speech Agents optional. Captivate 6 ships with one voice package. This package installs five Speech Agents.

If you have access to the original Captivate installation DVD, the additional voices are located in the Add-ons folder of the DVD.

If you do not have an installation DVD available, you can download the Speech Agents from the Adobe website:

Windows 32 bits :http://www.adobe.com/go/captivate6_voices_installer

Windows 64 bits :http://www.adobe.com/go/captivate_voices_installer_win64

Mac :http://www.adobe.com/go/captivate_voices_installer_mac

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