I’m new to Captivate and evaluating it for the development of several multilingual software simulation requirements.
Unlike other entities (e.g. highlight boxes, captions, etc), it appears the audio file associated with a given screen can’t be a multi-state object.
Am I mistaken and/or is there any easier way to create a multilingual narrative, without need to replicate slides?
Any thought would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
Slide audio cannot be a multistate object. If you need CC the workflow in Captivate needs slide audio but you didn’t mention if you need CC.
Audio can be in a multistate object, you can attach audio to states and states can be made ‘invisible’ to the user. I often use that when creating bulleted lists, with a multistate object, where each ‘bullet’ appears as a next state and the companion audio in that state will play automatically. You can see such an example in this example movie (one of the examples I will explain in the Timeline (part 2) presentation in DC on 25th of April:
http://www.lilybiri.com/published/Lists/index.html
However I want to warn you: audio files do increase the filesize considerably. I created a lot of sims in different languages as a professor. I preferred separate files for file size reason. After all you also have to edit the texts.
Thank you very much for the helpful feedback. I don’t need CC for my application, which based on your input, I’ll likely tackle with separate files.
Best wishes,
Dave
Fine!. If you ever want to combine a quiz in several languages in one file, have a look at:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/branch-aware-quiz
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