As I have a full licence of Cp4 is there any reason I get a message about 'This version is for demo purposes only..." and then something about '...obtaining a commercial licence..."

Nice feature to know about...

Tim

This is great!

What I'd also like to do is change timing and inflection. It would be wonderful if we could add tags to the text that is to be converted to speech, so that extra pauses, add emphasis, or raised inflection for a question and other more natural effects could be added to the generated audio.

e.g.

Do you think that John's oldest son is a painter?

I figure that if I add new custome words to the dictionary, I could fake it, but it would be great if we could use html-style tagging.

Steve

Hi Tim,
I guess you are referring to the message heard when trying 'read'ing this in the dictionary. If so, that's something we overlooked and need to fix.
Regards,
Shameer Ayyappan
Adobe Captivate & eLearning Suite

I am having a similar problem in which our campus purchased the full Captivate 4 package, and I am getting messages from the voice UserDicEng.exe and the vt_eng.exe programs that "demonstration only" and "your license has expired." Since I use the phrase "learning content" a lot - I don't want it pronounced "content - as in peaceful and relaxed." (grin)

Any updates on the "read" feature? I keep getting the "your license has expired" message when I click on "read".

Hi James,
Although the message 'your license has expired' appears in the UserDicEng.exe, still you can create your pronunciations. Once the pronunciation is saved, you can use it inside Captivate without having the 'your license has expired' message. Thus the license message appears only in the UserDicEng.exe and you can still use your modified words inside Captivate. Please try it.

Regards,
Mukul

I echo this -- any word on an update? I understand that we can still use the functionality -- but, we use a lot of specialized vocab (so, this is an excellent feature!!!). As such, we have to sit through the "expired" message A LOT.

I'm sorry to see the Steve's message hasn't received an answer yet all of the licensing ones have.

There ought to be a way to have the voice emphasise words with a tag. I think making special words in the dictionary is not very user friendly, but at least it is a way.

Cheers,

Okay, now I get all the licencing questions...yeah, I've paid for this thing, I shouldn't get these nastygrams from the programme.

Not having luck. I've added a word to Paul's dictionary, tweaked the pronunciation to the way I like and saved the file. But, when I use the word in Captivate and "convert text to speech", it persists in not using my tweaked pronunciation.

Has anyone had any luck with modifying pronunciations?

Hi Joe,
Just make sure you do few things correctly -
1. Once new word is saved in the dictionary, please close Captivate 4 completely and launch again.
2. If the word is created in 'Paul' dictionary, please use the same Speech Agent inside Captivate. Word added for one speech agent cannot be used by another speech agent.

Regards,
Mukul

OK -- I got it to work. Previously, I had Captivate open, tweaked a word, restarted Captivate -- all to no avail.

What I just did was tweak the work WHILE CAPTIVATE WAS CLOSED. Then, I opened Captivate, put in the tweaked word, converted to speech and...Ta-Da! It worked!

Still, I HATE having to listed to Kate and Paul tell me (erroneously) that I don't have a valid version of the application!!!.

Not sure what I am doing wrong, but I still cannot get Captivate to do any text-to-speech conversion differently.

I have tried all sorts of combinations of editing the dictionary with captivate both open and closed with no luck.
Even if I modify an entry that already exists in the user dictionary, captivate will not pick up any changes.

Please help.

I found that I had to change the user dictionary for both Kate and Paul for it to work with Paul.

I am having the same issue as Russ. I've also tried all the combinations of Captivate open/closed when editing the dictionary, to no avail. Kate simply will not change the way she pronounces my word. Any ideas?

I am having a real issue with Adobe Captivate and the Text-to-Speech function. It randomly copies text from one slide and puts it on other slides. I've deleted the wrong text from the timeline, from the text-to-speech window. I even wiped out my entire library of audio clips just to get rid of the stinking text. I delete EVERYTHING. Then I save. Then I close down the program and start again. When I go into speech management, the text is still there. This is really driving me crazy. I can't get any work done and my boss is getting frustrated. Anybody know how to fix this persistent glitch? Help please!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool feature. I like it.

One issue that I can see cropping up is that if Subject Matter Experts, like me, do the initial Captivate captures, fill in the slide notes, and edit the pronunciations dictionary, but then pass our projects on to the Documentation team Captivate experts to do the finishing work, then the SMEs must remember to also pass along their edited dictionary in case the Text needed to be changed. If these Finishers already have their own edited dictionary, there should probably be a merge tool.

Also, it seems kind of a pain that I have to edit and send pronunciation dictionaries for each voice.

Still, I like it so far. Also, I too vote for a way to indicate pauses (less than a comma and more than a comma) and inflections.

Looks like you do have to change the pronunciation for both Paul and Kate. Thanks for the suggestion.

Anyone know when a patch will be out for the annoying license prompts?

Adobe just posted a fix for the errors with the licence. The post is at:
http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/07/licensing_error_fix_in_adobe_c.html

Hi! i'm new to captivate. i would like to use these feature but i need in spanish. Is there any dictionary or voice specially for spanish?
Thanks

I downloaded the updated user dictionary apps and ran one of them for Kate. There was no message regarding licensing, so all seemed to be going well. However, after attempting to add a single word and saving, I found that upon the next run of the dictionary editor, it stated that "such words are skipped" and my new word does not appear in the dictionary after all. By the way, the word is "keyframe" and I entered it as "key frame" in the target box for pronunciation.

I had the same problem as Lawrence Pierce, but after deleting the words I had added to the dictionary using the "case-insensitive" option, the dictionary now loads properly. It seems, in my iteration of the English User Dictionary Editor, that the case-insensitive option is not working properly.