Slide notes disappear at end of slide

Hi community,
thanks in advance for having a look at the following question:
I am using Captivate 5 on Mac. Mostly with text to speech. TTS works just fine. Problem is the slide note. With skin controls I can toggle between show and no show of slide note. But at the end of the slide the notes disappear. I need them to stay, so the learners can read the text as long as they wish. I tried to stop the slide with a button, but the note still goes. Alternatively I created individual buttons on a slide to show and another to hide a text caption. Works fine, but the slide advances, without the possibility to stop. Next alternative is to use advanced actions. That works fine to show and hide text, but is a lot of work for all the slides. Is there a better way? Ideally I would like to use the skin, toggle the show-no show button, and the text remains at end of slide.
Side note: The TTS neospeech and loquendo are great. I would hope, that Adobe offers more speech licenses soon.

Is it possible that you may be trying to add too much CC text to the screen at one time?
I set up my CC text to only show a maximum of one line at a time, and I have the CC font set to Arial 20 so that it is quite large and easy to read. I time all of the lines so that they sync up with the audio track. This way, if you do have to pause the screen for any reason, the most you lose is just one short line of text.
If you're using the default CC text settings in Captivate I think you'll find the text too small for easy reading by the people that need it most.

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