Hi everyone! I´m trying to figure out how to add sound to a state. Can someone please help me out? I have a slide where my caracter say that "You can get more information about this and that if you click on the pictures". Then I have created a different state for five pictures. I even have succeeded to add sound to the picture and i have done the triggers so I can see the state when I click on the picture. But I can´t here the sound. :( Please, please, help.... Anna

Michael Hinze said: Hi Anna, welcome to the community. You cannot attach (or insert) an audio file directly to an object's state. One option would be to add the object audio to a layer and call this layer when an object is clicked. See attached a quick example with audio on the baselayer, three clickable pictures and audio on layers. You could also have all audio files on the baselayer and use MediaPlay, MediaPause triggers to play an audio file when an object is clicked. Hope that gives you some ideas. Hi Michael! And many thanks for your answer. It helped me a lot! I figured out how to to it. Now I have a baselayer with a person that tells the listners to click on one of the pictures to find out more. Then I made a layer for each picture where I put the sound. Clicking on the picutre is the trigger to change layer. I also use states to change the caracters. Works out great! Thanks again

Hi Guys, this conversation should be updated. As of today, you CAN insert audio (.WAV) into a state of an image. I insert a cursor from the icons library, created a state (Click) and added a sound effect of a mouse click for that state. I did that because the default mouse size is huge and there is no way to fade out the mouse once it has appeared on the screen. So the size tends to obstruct important information on the screen. Also, there is no way to have ore that one mouse action per screen.

Hi Anna, welcome to the community. You cannot attach (or insert) an audio file directly to an object's state. One option would be to add the object audio to a layer and call this layer when an object is clicked. See attached a quick example with audio on the baselayer, three clickable pictures and audio on layers. You could also have all audio files on the baselayer and use MediaPlay, MediaPause triggers to play an audio file when an object is clicked. Hope that gives you some ideas.

Hi Anna, I just wanted to welcome you to E-Learning Heroes! If you need anything else please let us know.

Ashley Terwilliger said: Hi Anna, I just wanted to welcome you to E-Learning Heroes! If you need anything else please let us know. Thanks! I will But I guess it would be better to ask that question in anonther thread?

Adding sound to a state | Articulate

SallyDiab-ee7ac
Community Member
6 years ago
HI Alyssa,

I have audio in 3 different states but want to change this audio that is made of of text to speech. When I click on edit states, I cannot see the little audio icon to click on it and change the audio to French from English. Pls help.
- WendyFarmer
  Super Hero
  6 years ago
  Hi Sally
  
  can you share the slide - someone may be able to help you.
SallyDiab-ee7ac
Community Member
6 years ago
Hi Wendy,

Here is the slide that is giving me problems. The object states are in English but I want to change the text to whatever is written on each state in French. I cannot find the audio icon to change it,.
test_slide.story913 KB
- WendyFarmer
  Super Hero
  6 years ago
  Hi Sally
  
  see Peek video for the first couple of quadrants.
  
  The audio icon that I couldn't see originally for top right quadrant is actually sitting on the dial icon
SallyDiab-ee7ac
Community Member
6 years ago
thank you...for some reason I now see them all clearly, I had to close the file and reopen, I guess it was just buggy. Thank you for your help :)
- WendyFarmer
  Super Hero
  6 years ago
  Glad that helped - all the best with your project :-)
AnuradhaGopu
Community Member
5 years ago
Wow! Thanks for this detailed discussion guys! Literally saved my day.
YoonFalkJensen
Community Member
5 years ago
Hi Guys,

Has any of you every experienced a noticeable quality drop (when published) when adding audio to states?
KarenAlveston-c
Community Member
4 years ago
The object states I want to add audio to are on a layer. I can insert audio to the visited state of each object, no problem, but when I preview, no audio plays, even though I see the audio icon in the visited state view. Could the fact that it is in a layer be the issue? Thanks for any advice!
- BeccaLevan
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Happy to work with you on this, Karen!
  
  I've attached a working sample that will play an audio file when the state of an object is visited. Here's a 1-minute demo of that.
  
  I'd be happy to take a look at your file if you're stuck! Feel free to share it in this discussion, or you can share it privately with me here.
  
  Looking forward to your response so we can keep at this!
  AudioState.story5.9 MB
DorothyMiller
Community Member
2 years ago
This is a great thread, thank you. I've managed to add audio to a state, and for it to play the audio when close button selected! Is there a way I can set this to only be available to JAWS users? Below is an example of one of my trigger steps:

When user clicks Close:

Play Audio Procedural Visited

Jump to slide Long Term Memory

Thanks.

Dorothy
- JoseTansengco
  Staff
  2 years ago
  Hello Dorothy,
  
  There isn't a way for Storyline 360 to recognize if a screen reader is currently active, so making an action that will happen only when JAWS is running is currently not an available feature. I'll open the floor to other community members to see if they have any workarounds that they could share!