Adding audio to the slides
Adding audio to the slides is by far the most interesting place to use audio in Captivate. Typically, slide-level audio is where you add voice-over narration to the project.
There are three ways to add audio at slide level:
The narration can be produced entirely within Captivate either during or after the recording
The narration can be produced in an external application and imported into Captivate
The Text-to-Speech engine of Captivate can generate audio clips
In this section, you will experiment with these three options one by one.
Recording narration with Captivate
The first way to insert audio at slide level is to record the needed audio clip with the tools of Captivate. To make it possible, your first concern is to carry the sound data from the microphone to Captivate by using your computer's audio interface.
Note
The following exercise requires a microphone. If you do not have a microphone available, just read through the steps. You'll have a chance to catch up in...
