January 2, 2020
Text to speech in Captivate 2019
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January 2, 2020
Text to speech in Captivate 2019
Henry James
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How do I create a female American voiceover for my video demonstration using text-to-speech?

Hello all,

How do I create narration using text-to-speech in Captivate 2019?

I’ve created a video demo and now want to add a narration to it that’s in a female American accent, rather than my British one.

Thank you.

Henry

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mitchell239
2021-02-08 11:19:42
2021-02-08 11:19:42

Hi Henry,

Best to upload audio from AI T2S online tool into captivate. There many such tool like play.ht, murf.ai, wellsaidlabs etc

Personally I would recommend murf.ai

 

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Lieve Weymeis
2020-01-07 09:42:24
2020-01-07 09:42:24

Maybe you didn’t install the voices.  I mostly use Slide notes to open the TTS dialog box but you can also use Project, Speech Management. I cannot show you the button which allows you to install the voices, because they are already installed, highlighted those coming with 11.5.

If you are on Windows the voices will be installed directly under Program Files (not in the Captivate installation folder), folder labeled ‘Adobe Captivate Voices 2019×64‘.

Can you check?

 

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2020-01-07 10:38:38
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I can’t see the voices folder in the folder labeled ‘Adobe Captivate Voices 2019×64‘. I’m using a Windows 10 PC and only installed Captivate a few weeks ago, so I would hope that I’ve got the latest version.

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2020-01-07 11:06:34
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Check the version number under Help, About Captivate. It should be 11.5.1.499.

You didn’t install the voices. Open Speech Management (under Audio menu) and you should see a warning that the voices are not yet installed, and a button to install them. That folder should have a subfolder VT with all the voices and is 1.72GB in size.

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2020-01-08 10:48:16
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Lieve,

Thank you for your help with this. I’ve now installed NeoSpeech Voices.

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2020-01-08 10:56:24
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Great! Did you like one or more of the voices?

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2020-01-08 10:57:32
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I’m still waiting for the 1.8GB file to download!

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Lieve Weymeis
2020-01-07 09:02:01
2020-01-07 09:02:01

Are you really talking about a Video Demo? Not about a software simulation in demo mode?

Did you check the available voices? Is one of them to your liking or not? I am not American, not British so it is difficult to judge.

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2020-01-07 09:09:29
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Lieve,

I couldn’t find the voices, even in software sim in demo mode.

And as it happened I sent the prototype of my project for internal review yesterday and they didn’t like the voice I got from a 3rd party programme.

How do I create text to speech in Captivate 2019?

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