[Xerte] Text to sound

Tue Jan 22 15:48:47 GMT 2008

Can you get the TTS to work in the accessibility demo on the Xerte site?

Get that working first - there are some instructions in it. I know that
works. If it doesn't work for you, it will be an issue with your
browser.

Then put your pieces online - they should now work.

If they don't, you need to play with the security settings for the
zones, as I described earlier,

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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 15:15
	To: Xerte discussion list
	Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text to sound

	Dear Mr.Julian

	I am constantly amazed by the promptness of your replies which
are so thorough. If only  there were  more like you in this world !!

	I still have some problems with text to speech. But let me try
my hand at solving them.

	Thanks again.

	Ashok Ranade

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

		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

________________________________

				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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