Different Language Support

Have you tried creating a layer for each language audio file in each slide? That way, you could get away with 1 scene.

A couple ways you could do this using language variables. As Andrew suggests you could have different layers for each language. That works pretty well if your onscreen content is fairly simple and you can keep it to that single layer. Another way is to use states along with your layers and variables.

It could work like this:

Create a slide with buttons to set a language variable (e.g. "Please choose your language."). Then for all of your onscreen text items create custom states, one state for each language. Then set triggers for all of the text objects that change their states depending on the language variable set on the first slide when the timeline begins on each slide.

For your audio you can do a similar thing but instead of using states just use a trigger to Play Media depnding on a condition for the variable. (e.g. Play media, [French audio file] when variable language equals French. Play media [Japanese audio file] when the variable language equals Japanese, etc.) This way you can keep all of your audio files on the base layer.

This works really well for quizzing, too. That way you can have a single quiz in multiple languages that can be scored and recorded in your LMS.

This can get pretty tedious and the translation import/export function won't be of any help but it can be done and is a pretty slick way to get a multi-language course running.

I'm sure there are other ways to do this but this one comes to mind right now.

This is the second topic on this general question. Brett raises the idea of using variables. For those of us less familiar with advanced navigation is there a place to go to learn more about the suggestion Brett has raised? I would love to see an example of this.

In fact i would love to see Articulate get behind a recommended solution or two and do a youtube tutorial on it to help get juices flowing.

Hi Deborah,

This thread is a bit older as you mentioned, so I'm not sure that Brett is still subscribed to chime in here, but you may want to review the information here in regards to using variables as a way to get started. You may also want to use the "contact me" feature on Brett's profile to see if he can share an example with you. 

Ashley what a great resource page, for Storyline (!) Am needing to do something in Presenter. Do you guys have a similar page for presenter?

Hi Deborah, 

Sorry for any confusion, this thread was specific to Storyline so I didn't know what you had access to. Presenter does not have an option to allow for variables.