[Xerte] Text to sound

Tue Jan 22 22:52:52 GMT 2008

Is there any way we can get round the security issues as I have used Xerte
on our website and had to change my settings and now IE insists on warning
me each time I load the LexDis pages!  I am wondering whether it is possible
to make this setting a default without having to compromise security as I
fear the instructions will have to go on the top of all our pages for
students - I am thinking long term with our LexDis project which will
hopefully have lots of Xerte files. 

Julian thanks for all the support as well - Will you be running another
training day?  I really am not having much luck trying to reduce the size of
the Xerte area and also changing button placement plus many other things but
really need to take a day out with the expert again!! 

Best wishes E.A. 

Mrs E.A. Draffan

Learning Societies Lab,

ECS, University of Southampton,

Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246

http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk

http://www.emptech.info

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tenney Julian
Sent: 22 January 2008 15:49
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text to sound

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

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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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