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I have a course (114 slides) that was developed in Captivate 6. On the last slide of the course, I have placed a "main menu" button that allows the learner to return to the main menu and repeat lessons in the course if desired. The first time the learner views the course, everything works perfectly. If the learner repeats the course, the text-to-speech audio is missing from 2 slides. The audio does not cut out at all when previewing, only in the published file. I am publishing to SCORM 1.2.
Here is what I have done to try and resolve the problem:
- Confirmed that the audio on the timeline was on.
- Cleared unused items from library.
- Deleted original audio from slides and replaced, then republished.
- Resaved under a new file name, to a new location and republished.
- Checked Force Republish all slides and republished.
- Removed compression / compression of SWF and republished.
- Added more silence at the beginning and end of the slide.
- Tried publishing in Flash 10 and Flash 11.
Can anyone offer any additional suggestions for solutions? Many thanks for your time.

I have some questions:
Is this voiceover audio or Text to Speech audio?
When you say you added more silence at the beginning and end of the slide do you mean silence added via the Slide Audio dialog in Captivate or silence copied and pasted in from pauses between words in the recorded audio?
Did you make sure that you moved the audio clips away from the beginning and end of the slide by at least one or two tenths of a second to ensure Captivate does not 'stitch' the clips together with those on previous or next slides?

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