Audio & text - do you have both on your screen?

I am personally not a fan of having a narrator recite the exact text on a slide. I think you would have better luck using the slide and the narration to convey your communication and leave the script in the slide notes. Another cool thing you can do with the slide notes is publish them for Word:

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/publishing-a-presentation-to-word.aspx

Then you can add the Word doc as an attachment:

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adding-attachments-to-your-player.aspx

I'm the same way. Though I believe there are users that would prefer to have the text and the audio. By moving your text into the notes section you provide the opportunity for choice. Best of both worlds in my opinion. My preference is to add audio as a strategic element. If I want someone to read a block of text, I'd like to do that in a natural way - like an external article - if possible. But there are exceptions to every rule. Even my own

I change the notes tab to say Narration, and place all the audio text there.  I would shorten the text on the screen to support and "emphasize" the audio.  When I have had to go back and add audio to a slide that I thought was going to be silent, I had to double-check that what the audio said matched what was visible on the slide.  Custom animations help with text coming in and out of the slide during audio so that way there is not too much text on the screen.

I tend to have both text on screen and narration. However, the text is typically bullet points, and the audio expands on that. I use the notes to act as closed captioning.

I absolutely agree that it's "Not Good"TM to have your narrator reading what is on screen. It drives me crazy in a classroom setting for sure, and I'd be clicking through if I came across that in e-learning. =)

Agree on all of the above! I really like the way e-Mersion used onscreen text to reflect & support the narration in their Diabesity course. Click the view mode toggle in the lower-right so that you can see the sidebar. You'll notice that the Notes tab in the sidebar reflects the narration verbatim, but the on-screen text really only pulls out the key words or phrases, and complements that with some simple but compelling visuals which are synchronized with the narration.

Thank you for sharing the e-mersion Diabesity course - that is stunning!

e-Mersion's demos are really amazing! Could we find the resources or a screencast of the steps,how did they do this demo?

Hello Sümeyye ... here's a blog post that describes a little more about e-Mersion's Diabesity course - it shows a little more about how they built some of the effects in the course. You might also like to see the tutorials here regarding how to apply animations and how to sync them with audio narration. Or, if there are other details about the course that you're interested in learning about how to replicate, just let us know and we can point you in the right direction.

Hi Jeannette! Thanks for your reply! I consider your suggestions.

when I want to learn more, than I will ask

thanks a lot!

That's got to be one of the biggest challenges when designing with multimedia. Here's a post and screencasts might help demonstrate some options you have for presenting text, images and audio in your courses.

http://community.articulate.com/blogs/david/archive/2010/09/06/reducing-bullet-points-and-on-screen-text.aspx

Thank you to everyone for the input!   The feedback definitely gives me the backing to my original plan of keeping the text off the screen and including it as slide notes, which I'll label as "narration" (thank you Laura for the tip).

The verbiage in the case studies is important as a whole so I'll be keeping it intact in the notes vs. bullets on the screen due to the nature of the content (the details of the sentences matters).