[Xerte] Text to sound

Tue Jan 22 09:51:07 GMT 2008

Text to speech is turned on by default. You don't need to set the
proeprties on an icon for it to work. If you use tab to move around your
piece in IE are you hearing any TTS?

Text to speech doesn't work in the authoring tool - only in the browser,
and then only in Internet Explorer, and then only when it is correctly
setup to do so, and finally, only on Windows.

Text to speech uses the SAPI activex control in IE. The web page you
produce when you publish a piece will try and initialise this activex
control. Your browser needs to be set up to allow 'allow activex
controls not marked as safe for scripting' in the security settings.

In internet explorer go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security ->
select the zone your pages will be in -> Select Custom level -> Scroll
down looking for the entry 'initialise and script activex controls not
marked as safe for scripting' and set it to either enable or prompt.

Then put your pulished xerte piece in that zone for it to work.

Julian

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	From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
	Sent: 22 January 2008 09:39
	To: Xerte discussion list
	Subject: [Xerte] Text to sound

	Dear Mr.Julian

	I have a problem regarding text-to- speech. The help file says
that we have to set the speech property (of the text icon) to 1 to
enable the text to speech. However in the drop down list of the text
icon I do not find the speech property.
	Also please let me know whether text-to-speech is available in
the prview.

	Regards
	Ashok Ranade

	Tenney Julian <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

		The controls should run along the full width at the
bottom of the movie. Is that not the case? One reason for that is if the
movie contains transparency - Xerte can't then work out how big it
should allow for the movie to play. One solution to that problem is to
edit the swf and provide a background for the movie area, even a
transparent one, in the first frame, so that when the movie loads, Xerte
can draw the controls the right length.

		If you want to control the movie independently, use an
interaction icon with some buttons on it for play, stop, pause. Inside
those buttons add some script to control the movie. You will need to
give the movie an ID. So if your movie has an id of myMovie,
myMovie.play(), myMovie.pause() and myMovie.reset() will provide
control. You can use custom buttons too if you want a particular look
and feel. The same goes for sound and flv.

		There's no practical limit on the size of Xerte files.
We have some in the region of 500Kb that load and run fine. Most files
are in the region of 25 - 100KB. Of course, bigger files are more
complex and harder to maintain. Even a 500KB file is likley to occupt
only a small proportion of the total project's size, when you've
factored in graphics, sounds, swfs and video. You need to bear in mind
the bandwidth available to your end-users, which will determine the
ammount and quality of the media you use - if you're expecting modem
users to view a 25MB swf file it may not be trouble free.

		Whatever your bandwidth, if you have swfs over about
1MB, it will pay you to convert them to flv if possible, as they will
stream much better,

		J
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		From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
		Sent: 11 December 2007 08:34
		To: Xerte discussion list
		Subject: RE: [Xerte] sound from .mov file

			Dear Mr.Julian
			Thanks for the quick reply. Well, I have now
obtained Flash MX program.So now I am simply importing the .mov files
and exporting them to get them in swf format. So that problem is solved.
Here is another.
			When I include controls in my swf file I am not
able to adjust their position independently of the movie. Also the
position of the controls is not  good  relative to the movie. Will you
please suggest the way.
			I must add that I am liking Xerte very much and
intend to use it do develop interactive content for Engineering college
students. Is there any limitation on the size of the Xerte files? Will
there be any problem if the content becomes very large?
			Thanks again for your time

			Regards

			Ashok Ranade

			Tenney Julian <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

				You need to convert the file to either
swf or flv. Have a search for converters,

				Julian

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				From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
				Sent: 04 December 2007 10:20
				To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
				Subject: [Xerte] sound from .mov file

				Is there any way of importing .mov file
along with sound?

				Ranade
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