Audio duration and animation timings when localizing
I’m coming across 2 separate but related challenges when localizing. The first challenge is slide duration. As you can see in the attached screenshot, the English-language audio has >10 seconds of silence at the end, because the Romanian version of that audio (for example) is longer. The 2 audios are “connected” and the longer audio is driving slide duration. The second challenge is that because the Romanian version is longer, the animations that are timed to the English version (e.g. ovals 1/2/3 in screenshot) are not timed well for Romanian. I think that one solution is creating separate layers for each language: basically duplicating the base layer of every slide for each language, and displaying them using the language trigger condition. But I think this solution will end up having some limitations. Another path I’m considering is that maybe I have to export each language as a separate course, and then manage each course separately. (really don’t want to manage 9 different courses). Thoughts on these ideas, or any other ideas are greatly appreciated.Be a Voice in Shaping the Future of Localization
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Hi Everyone. I am still pretty new to Articulate and brand new to the world of translating an e-learning. I apologise in advance if I am on the wrong forum as I am not subscribed to Articulate Localisation so my question is not about that service but translation in general. I have spent the whole day researching the best way to translate my small eLearning from English to Farsi, using copilot and ChatGPT as advisors. Various tools like Smartcat, Crowdin, Localise were recommended but the pricing plan felt high for me given I am just starting out and the NGO i am developing my first e-learning for also doesn't have a lot of money to pay out each month. In short, given I already had the content translated into Farsi in a word document, I decided to manually upload the Farsi version into Rise and then align/format the text. For those elements that I was unable to align within Rise (a handful of headings and MCQs), I decided to export a XLIFF copy and using Poedit make the necessary edits/format changes. I then successfully managed to import the updated version of the XLIFF file which I was happy about as I read it can be problematic. However for the headings I was struggling to align/format - instead of correcting them to a RTL alignment it changed the headings to the original heading with the tags as text instead of interpreting them. Regarding the RTL formatting of MCQs ChatGPT said this was not possible as the formatting was baked in within Rise. When I reported back to ChatGPT about my issue with the headings and asked if I used more powerful translation tools like Localazy would I have the same issue, ChatGPT implied yes. I appreciate ChatGPT doesn't know everything. My conclusion at the end of todays research is the best thing is to continue to manually enter my translated material and make the alignment changes I can do within Rise and just accept some things wont be aligned perfectly and thats ok. However before I make this compromise (as I know I might get frustrated with this compromise as the 'test' lesson happened to be relatively simply formatted whereas other lessons have bullets, timelines, image and text blocks, etc.. which might throw up more challenges) I thought I'd seek any advice from this forum of experts. If anyone has any advice, similar experience and solutions (hopefully) or just confirmation that I need to accept this compromise I'd much appreciate it. Many thanks in advance for time and expertise. Kind regards KatheirneSurvey question language based on variable
Hi All, I have a project that am working on that is in 5 different languages. The course navigation is set so that the user will select the desired language in the beginning, and the various languages are handled by separate scenes. At the end, there is a survey, which is a single scene, in English. I would like to be able to continue the localization through the survey, however the survey results will be analyzed by English speakers. I thought that it may be possible to change the "states" of the question based on the language selection, but I don't know if it's possible. Does someone have any suggestions?Spaces (extra or missing!) in translations
We did a pilot run of a localization into Japanese and German. Our German reviewer noted that there were many places where spaces were either missing between words or added extraneously. In Japanese, there were many odd spaces between words and punctuation marks. Is this a known issue? We were able to fix them, of course, but the majority of our German reviewer's work was fixing spaces, and it would be much faster if he didn't have to do all that.Localization - Videos, Assets, Audio+
To set the stage, I created a Storyline course in English and localized it into Spanish. In this course, I have 4 external video files and an external podcast audio. The first video file I remade in Vyond in Spanish and when I uploaded it the Spanish version of the SL course, it replaced it in the original source (EN) file. How can I prevent this from happening? I imagine I will have the same issues with the other 3 video files as well. Additionally, I added an icon and a text box to the Spanish only version of the course and it carried back to the original source (EN) file. How can I prevent this from happening? I have a podcast audio file (external .wav) with 2 voices as part of this same course. Are there any tools you can recommend to have this localized into Spanish? Last, and a little bit of a different topic... The options for Mexican and Spain (formal/informal) Spanish are not appropriate for most US cities across the country. Can we add a request for Latin American Spanish to be added to the roadmap, as a priority?Videos in several languages and animated elements
We create courses in 7 languages. In the courses we have integrated videos and text-to-speech audio files and some of the elements are also animated on the speaker text. When the videos are spoken, I get these videos in all languages (no subtitles). I can assign the audio files to the language with the help of triggers, but how do I do this with the videos? And the animated elements on the slides are also only aligned to one language and animated. Do you have any tips and tricks? Thank youUpcoming Localization Webinar on April 22nd
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