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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Converting text to speech

Converting the text typed into the Slide Notes panel to speech is not difficult. All you need to do is choose the note(s) to be converted, assign a speech agent to each note, and generate the audio file:

  1. Make sure you are on slide 3 in the Chapter03/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. At the top of the Slide Notes panel, click the TTS checkbox to select all three notes, as shown in the following screenshot:

Most of the time, you'll want to convert all the notes to speech. But, if needed, you can deselect the notes that don't need to be converted to speech.

  1. Click the Text-To-Speech button at the top of the Slide Notes panel (see the arrow in the preceding screenshot). The Speech Management window opens.

The Speech Management window is where you assign a speech agent to each of the note(s) you selected for Text-To-Speech conversion. The number of available speech agents depends on the voice packs installed on the system (see the Installing the Captivate speech...