Trigger audio to play

I am working on a language project. I will try to use iBooks author to do it. In author you cannot just insert an audio file and click to play it. I I import a video file with just audio I cannot resize it. Therefore I thought keynote would be my best bet. My question is: Can I trigger audio to play if a person clicks on some text. The only way I have found to do this is have it open a keynote file and have it play. It would play a looped recording of a phrase.

In my experiments so far, a Keynote inside iBooks Author works the same in that if you tap anywhere on the iPad, the presentation will advance. In other words, it's not smart enough to know which image/text is being touched, only that the user touched somewhere on the iPad screen. So, if your Keynote can play audio on a "click" it should work the same way in iBooks Author. But you can't have 2 images that play different sounds when the user touches them in varying order, AFAIK. Hope that helps!
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