Can you add audio by hovering over a word?

Feb 03, 2013

Hello,

I'm creating interactive grammar cards where the words in bold are pronounced with a text to speech program. Example:

In Spanish words are either masculine or feminine: 'el teléfono' is masculine whereas 'la maleta' is feminine.

I would like the students to be able to listen to the words "el teléfono" and "la maleta" by hovering the cursor over them. Is there a practical way to do that?

Thanks.

6 Replies

Charles Zoffuto

11 years ago02/03/13 at 5:17 am (UTC)

Hi Manuel,

Yes, it is very easy. You simply set up the trigger to play the audio when mouse is hovered over.

Manuel Aicart
Author

11 years ago02/03/13 at 5:47 am (UTC)

Thanks. What you suggest is to set the trigger to the whole text box. What I meant was setting a trigger on specific words so that the user can listen to the words by themselves. Let me give you an example: http://www.languageguide.org/french/grammar/conjugations

Steve Flowers

11 years ago02/03/13 at 6:41 am (UTC)

You'd need to use a hotspot or transparent object drawn atop the word or phrase. Adding Charles' script to a hotspot should get it for you.

Jon Xie

11 years ago02/03/13 at 7:13 am (UTC)

Hello, Manuel, you could insert a rectangle atop the target word or phrases , in the "Format" tab, set it NoFill and No Outline, right click the rectangle and choose "Format Shape" Menu, at the Transparency Option, set the value as 100%; set a trigger for the transparent rectangle to play media sound 1 when mouse hovered over the "laws-Rectangle"(my example). See the attached .story file.