customizing text to speech issue

I am having exactly the same problem. I have tried modifying words in the editor both with and without Captivate running.

The words pronounce correctely in the editor, but revert to the original word when played in Captivate.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Hi there

I have a silly question. After you tweaked the settings, you *DID* remember to delete the original file created using TTS and allow Kate or Paul to re-create the text to speech, no?

Cheers... Rick

Certainly not a silly question.

There is little information on how to do this.

So, basically you are saying that from the editor, we delete the file rather than saving it?

Thanks,

Ron

Thanks a bunch, guys.

I have been searching everywhere for info on this, and knew that I should have started searching here.

Again, Thanks,

Ron

Hi,

Pls. check out this post - http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/03/customizing_text_to_speech_pro.html

Jayashree

This is a VERY frustrating problem.  I've tried a million ways to get it to work on my machine as well, and nothing does.  As a suggestion to Adobe, perhaps it has something to do with admin rights to the machine?  I had to have an IT guy install this for me at work, because they took away our admin rights years ago.  I remember the entire text-to-speech feature didn't work right away because of permissions.

The only workaround that took me a while to think of (duh), was to modify the spelling of words directly in my presentation text to mimic the desired pronunciation.  Essentially doing the same  thing as editing the dictionary, only you have to repeat everywhere the text shows up, instead of just one source file.

Annoying yes, but it makes a world of difference for me on a couple of items.  I now write "Des Moines"  as "De Moine", otherwise I hear "Dez Moinez".

Tim

Sorry, I know you are frustrated and it isn't Friday. But I just can't resist.

Why isn't phonetic spelled like it sounds?

Ducking for cover now...

Guys,

I may have solved this problem.  I know it now works for me and it is worth a try.

If this works, someone please advise Adobe of the fix.

I am a bit of a hacker and in the bin folder I noticed a couple of dll files.

Normally dll's are located under Windows\System32 so I copied them into Windows and now my changes in the dictionary are being accepted.

The location of the files:  C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 4\VT\Paul\M16\bin

Please let me know if it works for you too.

Ron

I wish I could Ron...unfortunately I'll have to get an admin to do that for me.

thanks for the tip -- I'll let you know what happens.

Tim