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Text To Speech w/Video controls
I've added several videos to an E-Learning and aligned them with Text To Speech. However, I just had a request to add video controls to allow pausing. When the video pauses, the text to speech continues. Does anyone have any idea how I can align the text to speech so it pauses when the video is paused?
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Hi, I tried adding buttons with triggers and it works fine, but it doesn't look as nice as the video controls. Progress information and information about how long the video is not visible. Is it possible to insert information about the length of the video with a variable?
Hello MariHijer,
Thanks for following up with us in this thread! I want to confirm that accessing the built-in video controls and assigning them to triggers is not possible.
I'll open this discussion up to our fabulous community for any possible custom workarounds or suggestions they'd be willing to share!
Hello MariHijer,
Happy to help!
A restriction with video controls prevents the bar from controlling other objects in the slide, such as text-to-speech audio files. There's currently no way to assign triggers to the video control buttons, so pausing other media files in the slide when a video is paused via the video controls bar is impossible. One workaround is to do away with the video controls and use triggers exclusively with the actual video to control when a text-to-speech file will play.
I'll let other community members chime in in case someone has an out-of-the-box solution that they'd be willing to share!I have the same issue. Did you solve it?
If you have a trigger to pause the video, I would think you could use the same trigger to pause the audio.
I imported a video from a Canva design, and then just added Text-To-Speech directly through Storyline. Then I added the Video Controls option at the bottom of the screen with a layer over the video to remove the "click to pause" functionality. When they pause the video using the Video Controls, the Text To Speech keeps going.
