C2 can't do this - what can?

Question

Hi,
I'm using C2 to create reading texts for adult learners with
reading difficulties. I can easily have a slide on the page with a
sentence and audio integrated. I can even highlight sentences when
necessary. However, I've been asked to highlight every word in sync
to the audio!!!!!
I know C2 can do this if I highlight every word one at a
time, but this will take forever!!!
Anyone know of a program that will highlight words for me on
the screen and then be converted to a format that C2 will import?
Your help is appreciated.
Mark

Answer 1

Flash would probably be your best bet, especially with your
need to
integrate it into Captivate, but I don't know how much time
it would
really save.
We've delivered products where a conference is video taped.
The Speaker
is shown in a video window, the accompanying powerpoints are
shown in a
side-by-side window - changing as the speaker changed them in
his
presentation, and below both is a transcript which shows the
current
line being spoken.
Creating all that is a very intensive manual process. There's
no
software I know of that can 'read' an audio track and know
which typed
words to highlight in time. I'd love to hear about such
software!
With Flash, it would have to be manual, but you could move a
bit quicker
with Tweens; create a small highlight at the beginning of a
sentence,
expand that highlight to cover the entire sentence, and tween
it in time
with the related audio...so the highlight expands to cover
each word as
it's read...
Interesting challenge ;-)
Erik
Wodehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using C2 to create reading texts for adult learners
with reading
> difficulties. I can easily have a slide on the page with
a sentence and audio
> integrated. I can even highlight sentences when
necessary. However, I've
> been asked to highlight every word in sync to the
audio!!!!!
>
> I know C2 can do this if I highlight every word one at a
time, but this will
> take forever!!!
>
> Anyone know of a program that will highlight words for
me on the screen and
> then be converted to a format that C2 will import?
>
> Your help is appreciated.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
Erik Lord
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