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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
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
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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
