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Mastering Adobe Captivate 7

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 7

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 7
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Text-to-Speech to generate narration


The idea of the Text-to-Speech feature 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 pre-installed voice packages 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 7 ships with one voice-package that installs several speech agents for various languages.

The speech agents of Captivate can be downloaded from the following locations:

Note

It is required to install the Text-to-Speech agents to do the exercise that follows.

Working with the Slide Notes panel

The basic idea of Text-to-Speech is to transform a piece...