Building Closed Captions in Storyline with FREE source file

Hi David

thanks for sharing...you might want to repost this with the heading FREE:  or DEMO: and post it in the Building Better Courses forum as well

Thx Wendy. Weird, I did select Building Better Courses for where to post.

I've attached the SL file here too.

The FREE and DEMO subject lines really help people find your freebies... Those keywords also make it super easy for me to find and recap:-)

Thanks for putting this together, David. I've considered doing a weekly challenge on this topic just to see how many crazy variations we could get for showing captions.

This is great.  Thank you for sharing this.

Thanks for adding this!  I would love to see a weekly challenge on this topic.  I build eLearning courses for staff working with students who are Deaf or hearing of hearing, and many of our staff members are DHH.  My courses are always accessible, but I am sure there are better ways of adding the captioning.

Hi David. I also have a project using this approach. I've placed the variable reference and triggers handling on and off caption states in the master (and feedback master) so the only triggers on the slide are the ones containing closed captioning text. This generally works well. A couple of things I've noticed:

• Timing gets a little wonky if users scrub in the play bar in HTML5 on a tablet (not all browsers). To ensure it always stays in sync, I've prevented scrubbing in the play bar.
• Using cue points is the most efficient approach, however, the timing of hitting the "c" button on the keyboard to insert a cue point against timing of what you hear (as well as a possible playback delay in Storyline timeline) can cause captioning to be slightly slower than you'd like. I've had to adjust almost all initial cue points ahead slightly when playing it back and watching the timing.
• The captioning font chosen is going to vary in display depending on device. To prevent multiple-line display and to keep captioning easy to read, I'd advise keeping each line of captioning to 40--60 characters. 

Thanks for the feedback Stephanie. I appreciate you taking the time to add your insights. I've long admired your Articulate wizardry. All good points, which I've run into as well. :) It seems that each CC solution has its quirks. 

are there any plans to have cc creation option as standard in the articulate software?

Hiya David! Thanks for sharing this cool project. I've added it to our downloads hub here so that others can easily put it to use!

Cool. Thanks Kelly!