How to swap between audio and on screen text delivery of content

A silent versus an audio based experience is going to be a really different experience and I'm not sure how you could do that in any elegant way in the same presentation using the same slides. You could place the dialogue in the slide notes and someone could simply read that in lieu of the narration. However, recorded narration is going to have different timing to it than a scripted version with text only. So if you were looking to do something like animated callouts it could definitely be possible but you would have to basically have two versions of the same presentation within your presentation or have separate presentations.

If the majority of the people who are going to be viewing the content will be doing so with narration, I would consider doing the slide notes and keeping it simple for the few who are going to be reading the text.

Hi Ian,

Without doubling it or creating two separate presentations, I might simply create a slide at the beginning that notes that the course is built to run with audio, but if they need it silent, they could simply use the notes tab and place the volume on mute.  There is a volume button on the player anyway.  The way I look at it, they would still have to click something to toggle between volume & silent mode, so moving the volume slider is not more work.

**shrugging shoulders**

That's just my .02.

Hi All,

Thanks for the replies: I was considereing using the slide notes but wondered if there was any other methods as some of the slides have a lot of dialog which would mean a lot of text squashed into the notes area. The other solution of course is to split this dialog over several slides.

In a previous course I displayed the text in the box at the bottom of the screen; dialog audio was also attached: I think my colleagues envisaged this sort of format but want a button to make the text appear or disapear as desired.