Certification Question: Can I Get CTT'd?
I noticed that you are a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT) in addition to being an Adobe Certified Instructor. I have a strong background in business to business training. Assuming CTT is different from Adobe certification, can you point me to the company that manages the CTT process?
Answer:
CTT is very different than Adobe Certification. It's actually easier to earn the Adobe Certification. CompTIA has all the information you will need about CTT. Here is a link to their site.
Adobe Captivate 4 Question: Where is the Text to Speech Software?
I am trying to convince my company to upgrade to Adobe Captivate 4 to take advantage of the Text to Speech function. I downloaded the trial version of Captivate. When I try to convert the text to speech Captivate tells me the Speech to Text voices are not installed and to download them from the Adobe Captivate Products page. I can't find the link, can you help direct me to the URL I need?
Answer
Go to the Captivate 4 trial download site like you were going to download the trial again. Login using your Adobe ID (or create one)
You should be able to click the words "Run this executable to install NeoSpeechTM text-to-speech voice databases – one Male voice and one Female voice in English(US)- works with Adobe Captivate 4."
If that doesn't work, here is a direct link to the NeoSpeech installer.
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Adobe RoboHelp Question: What Happened to my Topic List Pod?
I'm using RoboHelp 7. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've lost my Topic List pod. That's not all, some of the pods are grouped with other pods. I'm not sure how I did that but I would love to put it back to square one. Help!!!!
Answer
Using RoboHelp, choose File > Load Default Environment. That should put your pods and RoboHelp window back to the way they looked they first time you started RoboHelp 7 or 8.
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Adobe Captivate Question: Can I Extract Quiz Data Without an LMS?
I'm using Captivate to quiz my users. I do not have an LMS and instead have Captivate email the quiz results directly to me. The problem is that the ATT files attached to each email are hardly easy to read. Is there a quick way to export the ATT files into Access. My thinking is that I'm good enough with Access that once the data is there, I'll be able to create the tables and reports on my own. But I need something that will take multiple ATT files at one time into Access. Currently, I'm opening each ATT file and copying and pasting. Any ideas?
Answer:
Yes. We created a utility called CaptivateMyData that does exactly what you're describing.
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Adobe Captivate Question: Can I Remove the Borders from Text Captions?
I have a very low level question. I am making some slides using Captivate 4. I have auto-recorded some demo slides. Now I need to add a slide with some introductory comments before the demo slides. I inserted a blank slide. Now my problem is how I can type in the introductory text. The only way I can type in some words seems to be the caption box. But that is not what I want. I just want some text on the slide without the box. I have seen many Captivate 4 slides do just that. But I cannot figure out how. Any advice would be appreciated.
Answer:
Show the Properties of any Text Caption. Select [transparent] from the Caption Type drop-down menu.
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Adobe Captivate 3 Question: Why Aren't My Animations Previewing?
This is crazy! Yesterday an inserted FLV previewed just fine. Today, it's ignored. Can you help?
Answer:
Adobe has updated the Flash player to version 10. I suspect that you have upgraded to that version and it has been documented that the new version is altering the way Captivate previews Flash animation (including FLVs). Published content will not be affected. However, previewing the animation in Captivate no longer displays properly (but it will publish fine).
You have two options: downgrade to the Flash Player you had prior to the upgrade; or preview the project in a Web Browser instead of previewing 5 slides.
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I have Captivate 4. I’m trying to install the speech text tool and there is no links to Captivate 4. Adobe just removed all to version 4 and everything is just for Captivate 5. Somebody has the speech to text tool in captivate 4?
I have Captivate 4. I’m trying to install the speech text tool and there is no links to Captivate 4. Adobe just removed all to version 4 and everything is just for Captivate 5. Somebody has the speech to text tool in captivate 4?
I have Captivate 4. I’m trying to install the speech text tool and there is no links to Captivate 4. Adobe just removed all to version 4 and everything is just for Captivate 5. Somebody has the speech to text tool in captivate 4?
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