Read To Me

Multilingual Audio & Text

Readme audio files - Page2

the file name of each readme audio files must start with ID(2 chars) otherwise it fails.

• en_narration.mp3
• ja_narration.mp3
• pt_narration.mp3
• sp_narration.mp3

Click the page2 on Kwik panel to open the page 2, and now you can register those readme audio files to the page opened.

Project and Pages > Add audio. Select en_narration.mp3 with Browse button

• read Me file is checked
• Play when page starts is checked
• Loop is 1 times
• Language is English

Save the setting

Add Japanese, Spanish and Portugal readme audio files as well. Don’t forget to set the language.

Sync Audio and Text replacement

Audacity label files are created according to each audio file.

For Spanish,

• sp_labels.txt
• sp_narration.mp3

For English,

• en_labels.txt
• en_narration.mp3

For Japanese,

• jp_labels.txt
• jp_narration.mp3

For Portugal,

• pt_labels.txt
• pt_narration.mp3

Sync audio and text will be attached to English father layer. Select father layer to set Sync Audio&Text,

Sync Audio and text window appears.

• Use page read Me audio file checked and make sure en_naration is selected
• Import from Audacity, select en_labls.txt
• Text Highlight color is set as Yellow.

Click Create to save the setting.

Do the same Sunc Audio and Text replacement for father_ja, father_sp and father_pt layers. Set each Audio(xx_narration) and Audacity labes(xx_labels.txt) and the text highlit color as yellow.

Set Language to a layer

In page1, user clicks one of Read to me button and one language is selected. In page2, the text and read me audio is displayed according to the selected language. The other language layers not selected should not be displayed.

Select father layer and set language as English. In Set Language window,

• Language group: ** NEW **
• Language: English

the new group creates a language group of father. father_ja, father_sp and father_pt will belonged to the group of father.

• father_sp Next Select father_sp layer and Set Language as Spanish and the language group is **father **that has been created above.

  

• father_pt

  Select father_pt layer and Set Language as Portugal and the language group is father

  

• father_ja Select father_ja layer and Set Language as Japanese and the language group is father

  

Each father_xx is belonged to father group and one of the layer in the father group will be chosen to user choice.

Next page of the tutorial explains how to change the animation according to the language selection.