Closed captioning displays a text transcription of the audio portion of a video or audio file while the audio is playing, making it easy for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to fol...
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Sure, Diana! Here's a link to my test file: http://articulate.fyi/2mxIhA2
Hope that helps - please let me know if you have further questions.
Hope that helps - please let me know if you have further questions.
Thanks again, Mat! You. Are. Awesome. After reviewing your set of triggers, I was able to create a multi-caption project with buttons to play/pause the video and toggle the captions on/off. I used public domain audio and video, and you can see it here: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/2c33be93-3673-4039-ac54-e7da0cb3e9ad/review
Unfortunately, after all of these efforts I'm not any closer to finding a solution or workaround for my ultimate issue: producing Storyline projects that have videos that support closed captions in multiple languages.
Our projects include video with narration, and I associate the English version of the .srt file for the first set of captions. But we'd like to give viewers the ability to switch to closed captions in another language. Sadly, when I add copies of the audio track with different .srt files (French, Spanish, etc.), I can't find a way to pause/seek/scrub the audio and related captions file when the viewer moves the seekbar on the slide.
Any suggestions are welcome! In the meantime, I'll submit a feature request :-)
Thanks again for all your help - take care!
Unfortunately, after all of these efforts I'm not any closer to finding a solution or workaround for my ultimate issue: producing Storyline projects that have videos that support closed captions in multiple languages.
Our projects include video with narration, and I associate the English version of the .srt file for the first set of captions. But we'd like to give viewers the ability to switch to closed captions in another language. Sadly, when I add copies of the audio track with different .srt files (French, Spanish, etc.), I can't find a way to pause/seek/scrub the audio and related captions file when the viewer moves the seekbar on the slide.
Any suggestions are welcome! In the meantime, I'll submit a feature request :-)
Thanks again for all your help - take care!
- This is a great example, Diana. Thank you for sharing it.
To achieve this, can you clarify if you needed to import the media into your project multiple times in order to have the different .srt associations or did you import the media just once?
Thanks!- Hi Kevin. To save space, I published the video by itself (no audio) and inserted it on the slide. Then I published the same standalone audio 3 times – once for each version of the captions (English, French, Spanish). Lastly, I created 3 .srt files and named them exactly the same name as the 3 audio files. Hope this helps!
- Hey Diana! Love your Amelia Earhart project - thanks for sharing that! What you have produced is exactly what our CC feature supports, with respect to multiple languages.
It sounds like your ultimate goal is what Kevin was asking about earlier in this thread, "Does the functionality support multiple language tracks?". Having a single video or audio object associated with multiple caption files is not currently supported. Please do submit a feature request! https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request
In the meantime, perhaps one of our expert Heroes might be able to offer suggestions to guide you toward achieving your goal. (Have you tried using the embedded video controls, as opposed to the player seekbar? If not, that might be worth exploring.)
