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2. Examples Language French Language 1036 Language amp amp H040C Wizard Other Agent Commands A drop down list of languages is displayed Select the desired language and press Insert Note that the drop down list contains all possible languages not just those that are installed on your computer Select Text To Speech Engine Help Select the ttsengine to be spoken then click Insert Click Test to listen to how the engine sounds Adult Female 1 French L amp H Adult Male 1 French L amp H Adult Female 1 Brazilian Portuguese L amp H Adult Male 1 Brazilian Portuguese L amp H ATT 1 4 DTNV rosa ATT 1 4 DTNV audrey Test Insert Cancel Listen Listen for a voice command or yes or no Requires that a voice recognition program has been installed on your system The listening state persists only for a fixed period of time about 10 seconds The listening state may also be invoked on a visible or hidden character by pressing the Scroll Lock key To listen for specific words or phrases see the ListenFor command Syntax Listen wait nowait Wizard Other Agent Commands 33 Vox Proxy Documentation Listen Command Help Select optional wait parameter Wait ListenFor This command causes the current character to listen for a voice command a list of words or phrases To listen for a simple yes or no see Listen The user speaks one of the possible commands into a micr
3. THEN Peedy Peedy Move Other agent say something do something Peedy commands Insert other script commands Help PowerPoint Miscellaneous commands commands Close Scripting character speech and actions using the Script Wizard requires only two simple steps 1 Select a character or click to show a new character 2 Press a button to Enter and test speech text Insert animations for the selected character Specify a new location for the character by dragging it on the screen Select and insert PowerPoint commands such as NextSlide or Click Select and insert other character commands Select and insert other miscellaneous commands Note that all of the features available from this wizard form are also available through the Power Scripting Menu Character Commands Balloons Disappear Do GestureAt Hide 91 Vox Proxy Documentation IdleAnimations Interrupt Language Listen ListenFor MoveTo NoBalloons PointAt Say SayWav ScaleCharacters a SetPrefs Show Size SoundFffects Speak Think TTSEngine Wait WaitCommands Miscellaneous Commands Background Bitmap CloseBitmap CloseExcel CloseFlash CloseMedia CloseWord Delay DisplayClock DualMonitor EndMacro GetMacro 92 Input ListBox MacroMenu MediaVolume MessageBox PlayFlash PlayMedia PlayWav
4. Miscellaneous Commands Input Displays an input form containing a single data field and captures input from the user The captured data is placed into the variable specified Syntax Input wherezX Y prompt text instructions text caption text variable amp varname Options 1 where X Y Location specified as an X Y screen location for the center of the display in percent Default is center EXAMPLE where 50 75 2 instructions text Text to be displayed above the input field as instructions Default is none Instructions may be multi line Line breaks are entered as the stile character vertical bar 3 prompt text Text to be displayed to the left of the input field as a prompt 4 caption text Text to be displayed as the caption of the input form 5 variable amp whatever Name of variable to which result will be assigned Variable name must begin with and ampersand Default amp Response Examples Show Paul at center Say Please enter your first name in the box below and click OK Input prompt First Name caption Enter name instructions Enter your first name in the field below variable amp FirstName Say Good morning amp FirstName Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 56 Reference wp input Wizard Help Instructions Center location tl Y 75 BES BH ER EH EB E Here are the instructions for filling in the field below Prompt Mami Click the Refresh button to Form Caption
5. Paul s Animations aat v Close Insert As you scroll through each animation in the list the character will demonstrate it If you are creating or editing a script and the Script Writer is visible you may insert any selected animation commands at this time by pressing the Insert button Properties Press the Properties button to display the character property form Properties that are set in this form become defaults for the specified character 21 Vox Proxy Documentation WJ Character Preferences for Paul Voice Speech Balloons Size Other gt Voice Selection Language English Y TTS Engine NOTE Some TTS engines do not permit changes in pitch or speed or have different high and low limits Defaults Voice Pitch I Default Low Normal High r Voice Speed Default Slow Test Speech Welcome to Vox Proxy Test Character defaults include Voice Defaults Language TTS Engine Pitch NOTE AT amp T Natural Voices do not support pitch changes Voice Speed Speech Balloons Show balloons on or off Balloon size Font Font size Other Character size Idle animations on or off Sound effects on or off 22 Character Gallery You can embed a character s properties into your presentation PPT file by clicking on the embed button In this way if you copy the presentation file and run it on another computer
6. WJ CloseFlash command Help Close a running Macromedia Flash movie window Flash file apl VoxProxy mediaimeadow activity swf Browse Insert Cancel CloseMedia Closes a media file that was started using the PlayMedia command Takes effect after the active character is finished whatever it is doing Syntax CloseMedia Wizard Miscellaneous Commands CloseWord Closes the Microsoft Word window that was opened by the ShowWord command Takes effect after the active character is finished whatever it is doing Syntax CloseWord Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Delay Syntax Delay S Where S is the number of seconds to delay Causes the script to pause for the specified number of seconds before proceeding This command does NOT wait for any previous character actions before running In many cases especially if you want the delay to start after the previous character actions it is preferable to set a custom timer and wait for it Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 51 Vox Proxy Documentation DisplayClock Displays a digital clock showing one of the following Time of day a countup timer or a countdown timer While the clock is visible during a slide show it may be deleted at any time by clicking anywhere on it Syntax DisplayClock at X Y alarm file style2clock countup countdown size N timer T bgcolor C fgcolor C hold yes no action release delete Op 1 tions at loc
7. cero teo ra dads ee Io trarre ERE dedu wun A retur cee oak RE eere deudas 127 INTO UC Ni 127 CD Layo UE ale 128 QUICKP Pi A RE EAA 128 ED Image Eo bi 129 Single Presentation OF Menu eiie rr nana Ra RR ERE ER ADR ERa RR RE AER A TRE AR AE 129 Menu Builder oi oem LA ra esos iMd ie eee y Dex ca sees ava ede da erm a a cents 129 ENS d ERE 130 CMARACCERS ia cca m 131 Languages ii A eagle ranean a a 132 Vox Proxy Documentation Info Files TL 132 Author gi DER 133 CD Startup Message and Copyright cceceeeee cere eee eee eee eee eee mener nnn 133 HM Ir 134 Burning the CD 135 CB DIAG MOSEICS oM 136 Copyrights and trademarks cccecee eee een eee eee eee eens 139 CO ali 141 O 143 vi Introduction 3 D Talking Animated VOX PROXY Characters V d for PowerPoint Welcome to Vox Proxy Vox Proxy is a user oriented authoring and playback system for scripting 3 D talking animated characters and other advanced multi media features in Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows For authoring it works with PowerPoint 2000 or newer For playback it works with any version of PowerPoint as well as the free PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Though a PowerPoint add in the Vox Proxy menu appears in PowerPoint and allows you to create and edit your scripts side by side with your slides Scripting is click simple with Vox Proxy s comprehensive Script Writer and Script Wizard Vo
8. A list of available speech engines detected on your computer is shown in the wizard form A TTS engine for the specified language must be installed on your system If an appropriate TTS engine is not found it will use the character s default speech engine Syntax TTSEngine clsid Examples TTSEngine 33f7d612 a2ea 4d6e 8585 112AF0C4491A Wizard Other Agent Commands 42 Reference Select Text To Speech Engine Help Select the ttsengine to be spoken then click Insert Click Test to listen to how the engine sounds ATT 1 4 DTNV julial6 ATT 1 4 DTNV reiner15 ATT 1 4 DTNV rich16 ATT 1 4 DTNV mike ATT 1 4 DTNV alberto Test Insert Cancel Wait Causes the script to wait at this point until the active character has completed whatever it is doing This can be useful to signal when another character should begin its actions Syntax Wait Examples Paul say Good morning etc etc Wait Say I d like to introduce my friend Merlin Show nowait Merlin at Center In this example Merlin will begin to appear just as Paul starts to introduce him and not before This helps to speed up the activity by simultaneously showing Merlin while Paul is introducing him but not while Paul is making his previous remarks Wizard N A WaitCommands Changes the list of commands for which a character will wait before performing Available commands are Hide Moveto Do or Play Say Speak Show Th
9. Colorado org JCPL greet Good amp tod amp name folder c program files vox proxy pres c program filesvvos proxy sp media c program files vox proxy help c program files vox proxy h winfolder C AWINDOWS DiskDrive C tempdir c docume 1 tomMocals 1 windir CAWINDOWS marrarir re Snroaram filess siov nrowvis Global Variables v These variables may be used in any presentation or macro 2 Within a script using the Set command Using Variables In Speech Examples may be the simplest way to understand the use of user defined variables in speech Variable name amp speaker Variable text Tom Sample line of script Say Good morning amp speaker My name is Peedy Variable names must only consist of a single word but the text in variables may be longer Variable name amp org Variable text the Jefferson County Public Library Sample line of script Say Welcome to amp org A variable may contain other variables Variable name amp greet Variable text Say Good amp tod amp speaker Sample line of script Say amp greet Welcome to amp org In Directory Paths 88 Reference Anywhere you refer to media files Macros or other files it is often a good idea to use a variable for the path rather than to hard code the path to a location on your hard drive Several pre defined variables are provided for this purpose see above Example PlayWav wait amp Media APPLAUSE WAV
10. File Locations Timeout Language Misc Before performing any of the following actions a character will wait until all prior characters finish whatever they are doing lv Hide V Move Iv Do Play M Say Speak iv Show MV Think v Gestureht Iv Listen NOTE To override these preferences use nowait or wait on the command line For example if your defaults above are all ON checked you can override specific commands as follows Show nowait Peedy at Center Do nowait Think Confused or Think Confused nowait Say nowait What are you doing If pour defaults are OFF unchecked override with wait rather than nowait When a character is about to perform a command listed here if that command is checked the character will wait for the previous character if any to complete its speech or actions before acting on the command If the command is not checked it will not wait Commands listed here include Hide Do GestureAt Listen Moveto Say Show and Think Note that the Show command often contains an implied move e g Show Paul at Center Therefore if you do not want to wait on a Show command you should uncheck both the Show and the Moveto commands It is often better to use the nowait parameter on individual commands than to change the system preferences here Edit menu Undo Undo the last insertion into the script Cut Cut the script text currently selected Saves into the Windows clipboard Copy Copy
11. Neither the Vox Proxy software nor your presentation files will be installed to the end user s computer but will actually run from the CD Certain Microsoft Agent and speech features however must be installed on the user s computer These include the Agent control which is pre installed on almost all versions of Windows any Text To Speech engines needed and the character files The space needed on the user s computer is minimal a little more than the size of the character files you are using During the installation process the user will see the following E CD Startup Checking Microsoft Agent Controls and Speech Engines This indicates that the software is checking for necessary speech and Agent components and will install whatever it needs as follows 1 Microsoft Speech API version 4 If not found it will install from the file spchapi exe The speech API is normally installed on any Windows system containing a sound card but on Windows XP the speech API must be installed 2 Microsoft Agent control If not found it will install from the file msagent exe This should almost never happen because the agent control has been a standard feature in Windows since at least Win 98 3 Languages TTS engines Checks for the TTS engines which you have specified in the CD Prep program Installs if necessary from the files included in your setup This will usually be necessary because the TruVoice TTS used by all of Vox Pr
12. To Capture Input Variables are the only way to capture input from the user Several commands in Vox Proxy automatically assign user input to the variable amp Response ListBox Listen ListenFor MessageBox The Input command will assign data to any user defined variable defaulting to amp Response After using any of the above commands you can re assign the data to a user defined variable of your choice Example Set amp Name Respons In Calculations Numeric variables can be used in a variety of calculations For example if you have a quiz and you would like to keep score you can use a variable such as amp Score to accumulate the total At the beginning of the quiz you would set the value to zero Set amp Score 0 On a slide where the user made a correct response you could increment amp Score Set amp Score amp Scoretl For Slide Navigation Variables provide a useful way to navigate in slides On any given slide you can capture the current slide number into a variable say amp S Set amp S amp SlideNumber Then if you have action settings or hyperlinks to other slides you can always return to the starting slide using the GotoSlide command GotoSlide amp S 89 Script Wizard Script Wizard Click on buttons below for more information UJ Script Wizard Eifel Help Insert agent character commands Either switch to Paul another character OR Show a new In your script character
13. To use them after inserting the animation name into your script you should add the noloop option StopListening noloop There is now an online registration for new users For existing users upgrading to version 3 you can access the online registration on the Script Writer s Help menu Help PlayMedia Now supports Microsoft Media Player 9 The support is completely transparent Existing scripts will work on any version of Media Player PlayMedia now supports the nowait option that works exactly like a character nowait It will start the media player before the previous character has finished its speech or animation Media Player can take a few seconds to load in memory the first time it s called The purpose of the nowait option is to let the Media Player load while the previous character is doing something thus allowing the media to start playing promptly The Click command also now supports the nowait option allowing you to start the slide animation while a character is speaking or performing an animation PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Vox Proxy presentations can now be played with the new Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Viewer The viewer files are included in the Vox Proxy installation CD Prep disks can be configured to bundle the viewer files on the CD Vox Proxy Documentation Run Mode now turns on automatically If you open a PowerPoint presentation file that contains Vox Proxy scripts and the Vox Proxy run mode is not already on
14. rms Decline v C Wait NoWait Default Wait GetstureAt 30 Reference Causes the active character to gesture toward another visible character on the screen The active character does not move but merely gestures either up down left or right depending upon the selected character s location on the screen Syntax GestureAt name Wizard Other Agent Commands GestureAt Character Help Select the character to gesture at C Wait C NoWait Default Wait Insert Cancel Hide Hides the character If the character name is not specified the character currently active is hidden This is a command that plays the character s default hide animation If you want the character to disappear without playing the hide animation use the disappear command Syntax Hide Examples Show Peedy at Center Say Nice to see you Hide Wizard Other Agent Commands IdleAnimations Temporarily turn on or off a character s idle animations If the word all appears after on or off it will apply to all characters which are visible at the time the command is encountered in the script Otherwise it applies only to the currently active character This over rides the default which is a preference item See Tools Preferences on the Script Writer and also see help for the SetPrefs command 31 Vox Proxy Documentation This command is especially useful for animations such as SitLeft and SitRight to ensure th
15. scale loop close Options are 1 file file name swf 2 at location as screen Default 50 50 Location is at the CENTER of the form 3 size width height as screen Default 50 50 4 align LTRB Aligns the movie with the Left Top Right and or Bottom of the form Any combination is valid Default is to display the movie in the center of the form 5 scale X Options for X are ShowAIl default Preserves the aspect ratio of the movie but ensures that it will fully display in the form window NoBorder Forces the form window to be fully filled If the window is not the same aspect ration as the move one edge of the movie will not be visible off the form ExactFit Scales the movie to the form If the aspect ratio of the movie is significantly different than the form some distortion will be apparant 6 loop causes the movie to run continuously in a loop Note that this require you to explicitly close the movie or it will go on forever 7 close causes the form to close and disappear when the movie stops playing Note that if the movie has a stop or pause button pressing it will close the flash form The PlayFlash command assigns a value of one to the variable amp Response if the media file successfully starts or a zero if it does not 61 Vox Proxy Documentation Examples PlayFlash file c program files vox proxy sample swf at 25 25 size 50 50 close PlayFlash file c program files vox proxy
16. the cell reference for a cell changed by the user amp excelChangeValue the new value of a cell changed by the user See onExcelChange Note that the names of all these variables are case sensitive User defined Variables User defined variables may be defined in the Variables section of the Script Writer s Tools menu or from within a script using the Set command Names should consist of a single word without spaces When used in the script names must always begin with the character amp Creating Variables Variables can be created in two ways 1 With the Variables dialog box on the Script Writer tools menu There are three pages or tabs on the Variables form All Presentations These variables apply to all presentations and macros This Presentation These variables apply only to the active presentation or macro Any variables defined here will override those defined on the All Presentations page Pre defined These variables are available in any presentation or macro They include time oriented variables amp day 9odate amp month amp year amp time and amp tod time of day and several speech tags amp w whisper amp m monotone amp n normal amp r reset and amp e emphasize 87 Vox Proxy Documentation WJ Variables All Presentations This Presentation Predefined N Name name Text Tom New Delete Save Restore Marable Tet name Tom loc Golden
17. the character properties will be preserved These properties are saved in a special file along with other system preferences The file is C program files vox proxy voxproxy dat If you copy this file to another computer that has Vox Proxy or the Vox Proxy Player installed on it it will overlay all preferences and character properties on the other computer Removing a Character You may remove a character from the screen in any of several ways 1 If the Script Writer is visible you can remove all characters from the screen by clicking on the Close Agent Characters button located on the standard toolbar 2 Recapture the character either by clicking on the character s name or double clicking on the character itself This character will disappear automatically when you either close the form or select another character 3 Right click on the character itself and select Hide The character will remain active but will disappear from the screen A symbol will appear in your Windows System Tray To re display the character double click on the character s symbol in the system tray 4 If your computer is equipped with a microphone and you have installed Vox Proxy s voice recognition software press the Scroll Lock key wait until you see the message is listening then say the word Hide 5 Selecting characters All available characters are listed by name To show one of those characters click on the character s name Th
18. update the sample input form Caption Assign to Variable amp Response Refresh Cancel Insert ListBox This command displays a list box containing a list of words or phrases The user selects a single item by clicking on it The result is placed into the amp Response variable where it may be evaluated using IF or Evaluate Items in the list are specified in quotes such as ListBox First thing second thing etc ListBox is used where you want to take different actions depending upon the user s selection It is an alternative to the voice command ListenFor For example you may start different slide shows or branch to different slides within the current slide show Syntax ListBox item text return item text return Each item may consist of either just the text to appear in the list or as two items separated by the style character or vertical bar 1 The text to appear in the list 2 The text to be returned in the amp Response variable Examples ListBox Rast thang Second thing In this example the user will see First thing and Second thing in the list box If he selects First thing the amp Response variable will be set to First thing ListBox First thinglone Second thing two In this example the user will also see First thing and Second thing If he selects First thing the amp Response variable will be set to one Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 57
19. 133 Vox Proxy Documentation lid co Prep Wizard Menu File View Tools Help When the CD first starts it will display a general startup message and copyright information and allow the user to approve or decline the CD startup Enter or edit the general startup message and your copyright information here In addition to your own copyright information some additional software copyrights will be displayed Press the Preview button below to see exactly what the user will see General require administrator rights Copyright Preview Talk to me lt Back Next gt Cancel The Preview button will allow you to see exactly what the user will see when the CD starts CD Startup This disk will start a presentation or offer a menu of presentations It will install any features it needs then run from the CD Windows NT 2000 and XP users may require administrator rights IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT NOTICES Uses Vos Proxy 2001 2004 Right Seat Software Inc Uses Microsoft Agent Technology 1996 2001 Microsoft Corporation Uses APL WIN 2000 APL2000 Inc Author OK TO CONTINUE Info i f No Finish Before clicking Finish you must decide whether to require that the CD always play on the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer The viewer files will automatically be included on the CD The advantage to always playing on the viewer is that the playback will be consistent If you allow 134 CD Prep the presentation
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21. Commands 63 Vox Proxy Documentation ti PlayMedia command TER Help Browse Location Center x 50 Y 50 Move on Slide Screen Size r Controls y Volume Authored Size C None ES Twice Authored Size Same One sixteenth of Screen One quarter of Screen One half of Screen Full Screen None audio only All IV Force media window ON TOP v Hold Script until media is finished playing Y wait until previous character is finished before starting player Play E E time s Test Insert Cancel PlayWav Play an audio wav file using the standard Windows MCI media player not Microsoft Media Player Syntax PlayWav wait file Be sure to include quote marks around the file name If no path is specified the standard search path will be used If you include the word wait the script will be held until the audio is complete before proceeding Without the word wait the script will continue to run while the audio plays Examples PlayWav wait c windows media chimes wav Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 64 Reference Play Audio Way File Help Wav File Browse Iv Hold script until audio is finished Test Insert Cancel RandomLineFrom Inserts into the current script a single line selected at random from the specified Macro Script Note that the line retrieved should have any needed script command in it If the line is for some spo
22. Macros button on the task bar and select close The macro will be interrupted and the macro menu will be automatically restored 27 Vox Proxy Documentation Ifthe macro has started a PowerPoint presentation end the presentation in the normal way by pressing escape for example or by right clicking on the slide and selecting end show If the macro is running on a background other than a PowerPoint presentation click anywhere on the background The macro menu will be automatically restored Returning to the Macro Menu When a macro is finished you may exit the macro and return to the macro menu in any of the same ways that you would interrupt a macro see Interrupting a macro 28 Reference Character commands Balloons Turn on or off the speech balloons that are displayed when a character speaks or thinks Also allows selection of the balloon font and font size and whether the balloons should be a fixed length or automatically sized according to the spoken text Syntax Balloons on off lines size font name Optional parameters onor off default on lines default auto sized specify a fixed number of lines for the balloon size If this is not specified the balloons will be auto sized according to the text displayed size Specify the text size in points font name Specify the name of the font Examples Balloons on size 14 font arial lines 5 Balloons off Wizard
23. Wait prior to RestPose Merlin would GestureRight while Paul does Explain Miscellaneous commands Background Display either a solid color or a bitmap file as a background in a script macro Background is normally used only with Script Macros not PowerPoint slides Script Macros can play on the desktop making a background desirable under some circumstances Syntax Background color fit Options are 1 Color may be either a color number or a Bitmap file name in quotes Use the Script Wizard to select colors 2 Fit if a bitmap file is displayed you may specify one of the following fit options e tile e scale e unscaled The Wizard form offers a color palette and bitmap file browsing Examples Background c NwindowsNclouds bmp scale Background 8421376 Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Background ES j Choose C Bitmap File gt BT A Insert Cancel Bitmap Display a bitmap file on the screen Use the CloseBitmap command to remove the bitmap 48 Reference Syntax Bitmap options Options are 1 File name and path enclosed in quotes 2 AT X Y optional location where X and Y are percent of screen see Show 3 Display size One of the following default 1 4 size 1X as authored size 2X twice authored size size 1 16 1 16 of screen area size 1 4 1 4 of screen area size 1 2 1 2 of screen area size FS full screen 4 One of the following scaling options tile scale u
24. a number of such words such as autoshape and c est la vie as samples Any time Vox Proxy encounters one of these words or phrases in a line of speech it will automatically use your substitute pronunciation Look over and test these examples to get ideas for your own pronunciation adjustments For words that are needed only in the current presentation but throughout it enter them on the This Presentation page Be aware that such entries will cause a special slide to be created to contain that information The special slide will be marked hidden so that it won t be displayed in the slide show For one time pronunciation adjustments use the One time Insertion This will insert a map tag into the line of speech showing both what is to appear in the speech balloon and how it is to be pronounced You can be creative with using this feature For example you can insert pauses into the speech by using commas that don t show up in the speech balloon You will occasionally have to adjust the pronunciation of a word whose emphasis is wrong for the current context The TTS engine for example does an amazingly good job of determining when the word object should be pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable and when it should be on the second But it isn t perfect perfect is another one of those words When you test these words in the Pronunciation Dictionary you may have to enter several words or the whole sentence in orde
25. default volume is 100 the maximum Volume levels below 50 are nearly inaudible If the optional time is specified the volume will fade up or down in the specified number of seconds Examples MediaVolume 60 2 Wizard Miscellaneous Commands WJ Media Volume m Fade time fo E Seconds Insert Cancel Messagebox Display a message dialog box that requires the user to press a button Syntax MessageBox text title buttons symbol Options 1 Text to be displayed in the Message Box 2 Message Box Title 3 Buttons Options are n OK OC OK Cancel 59 Vox Proxy Documentation ARI Abort Retry Ignore RC Retry Cancel YN Yes No YNC Yes No cancel 4 Symbol Symbols may be Question a I Exclamation i Information S Stop Sign Examples MessageBox Your voice input was not understood Listening OK S Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Message Box Help Message text Insert Test Message Title Cancel Buttons Yes No Symbol Question Exclamation Info C Stop Sign onExcelChange onExcelChange allows you to specify a script macro to execute when the system detects that the user has changed the value of a cell in a visible Excel window It provides you with a facility to react interactively to user changes in the Excel worksheet The only available action is to run a Script Macro which can either be a Macro Fil
26. di 20 CICK meicro a 77 81 ile iii ea Tn 52 Close Agent Characters 23 107 Bitmap spere dia aiti rs aaa 49 A babies a a 50 d PETITIO 50 MEGA ive terc rene nbn Re eue x nre mad ra aa 51 la REED 51 CloseBitmap riens etr ista 49 CRU a ore reer me dedecus 42 Col m 48 Column headings sssseessse 70 Command bars eese 70 72 COMLEX Com a 46 CONTOS aisinada EN 62 E E E E A E AE 46 Current Slide 110 Custom Animation 121 D Data file 66 69 72 75 76 bL 51 73 DIAGNOSE iii ii 105 DISADDESE iii aida 10 Display eeeeneenee 38 54 DOCU E occi ribi RR REGE 72 Dual monitor ess 54 E E mail Context ssss 9 46 107 Embedded macro 25 EMPHASIZE isso 9 46 107 EXCO ui 50 60 66 69 70 75 F A diane saperdeitendieinmeniaiads 59 PBS Em 17 Ele patina 37 FIGS conan 44 66 76 lali A A 102 A O 61 74 FONE ui ri ii ns 29 FormattingToolBar sese 70 Formula DaP cceccecceceeseeceeeeeeeeaeeeneaes 70 G GGSLUEB iii iia 1 30 Gest reAE uoces iaa 91 Grid lines eicere ne nra nemen ETE 70 H Headihgs eet nerna p 70 Hide eeeee 10 29 31 91 HScfollBat iodo eta 70 l Idle animation 10 39 69 91 Info file
27. end user s computer and configuration which could cause the presentations on the CD not to work properly Some of those are discussed below You should also be aware that the CD you will distribute is not a zero footprint application Although your presentation files and the Vox Proxy application software are not installed on the user s computer there are certain speech components and Microsoft Agent files that must be Because of this the user must have administrator rights to play a CD Prep disk See the installation details below for more information about what is installed on the end user s computer What s new in Version 3 Version 3 contains many enhancements to CD Prep all designed to make it easier for you to generate self starting CDs Quick Prep If you have a single presentation file rather than a menu of multiple presentations and do not need info author files or changes to the standard copyright notices you can use a new feature called Quick Prep which will prepare everything you need for the CD in a single step Automatic File Scanning CD Prep will now scan through the scripts in your presentation file looking for files that you call including media macros other presentations etc It will automatically include those files on the CD and alter the scripts if necessary to change all paths to the appropriate file locations It also locates and includes any characters used in your scripts The automatic scanning for files wo
28. files necessary for an auto starting CD You may click Back or Next at any time to review previous information entered You can also jump to a specific page by clicking on the View menu item 127 Vox Proxy Documentation On any page of the CD Prep Wizard you may have Paul give you a brief description of the information required on that page by pressing the Talk to me button CD Layout When you run the CD Prep program you are determining the layout of the CD including files menu information and documentation At the finish of this process you will be asked for a layout name All of the information about the CD layout will be saved under this name In the future if you want to modify the layout and re create it you can open the layout by clicking File Open iJ CD Prep Wizard File View Tools Help CD PREP This wizard will help you prepare a folder containing the layout of the CD all of the files necessary to create an auto starting CD The CD may contain one AS d 3D Talking or more PowerPoint presentations or Vox Proxy script macros gei oce m Quick Prep If you have only a single presentation file with no special file requirements and no author or info files see Help you may use the QUICK PREP option to prepare your CD image in one simple step If so just click on the Quick Prep button Otherwise click the NEXT button to begin the CD Prep process Quick Prep Talk to me Bacl Next
29. gt Cancel Here you may opt to run Quick Prep which will create the CD image folder in one easy step You should NOT run Quick Prep if you need to set up info and author buttons or edit the copyright notices QuickPrep If you select the Quick Prep option you will go directly to a special finish screen that appears similar to the following 128 CD Prep lid CD Prep Wizard File View Tools Help 1 What is the presentation file SI SS PLNVosProse PPT Sdemo ppt Browse 2 Where shall we save your files c program files vox proxy cdimage Browse Click the Finish button to create the files needed to burn the CD When burning the CD do not copy the image folder itself but copy all files and folders WITHIN it Talk to me Finish Cancel Just confirm that the current presentation file is the one you want to use tell it the folder name in which to save all files and click Finish That s it CD Image Folder When you finish setting up a CD layout the actual files and data are saved in a folder called the CD Image folder on your hard drive You will then use your CD R burner software to copy the contents of this image folder onto the CD If you specify an existing folder name the program will not delete the contents of this folder when it copies the CD layout files into it so you should be sure that it does not contain extraneous files or sub folders which you don t want on the CD CD Prep wi
30. has elapsed from the StartTimer w aitFor name seconds Insert Cancel WaitFor This command will hold the script and wait for one of several events to occur A specified character to complete its speech or actions The end of a media file or flash file A specified length of time from 1 The start of the current slide 2 The start of the slide show 3 The start of a media file audio video or Flash 4 The start of a custom timer 5 The completion of the previous character s speech or action Syntax WaitFor Item Time Time can be in seconds or min sec Item can be one of the following Character followed by character name ShowTime SlideTime or MediaTime followed by time MediaEnd FlashEnd followed by full path and name of flash file CustomTimerName followed by time Item can be omitted in which case the script will be held at that point for the elapsed time specified Examples WaitFor character Merlin Waitfor SlideTime 1 23 WaitFor MediaTime 4 15 WaitFor MyTimer 5 Waitfor FlashTime C Program Files Vox ProxyMMediaNVPweb swf 30 WaitFor MediaEnd WaitFor 5 74 Reference Wizard Other Agent Commands ug Script Command WaitFor Help The script will wait for either a prior character or for any of several timers Select one of the options below If you are using a timer be sure to enter the time y Characters r Timers C Character Time 3 Seconds or min se
31. it 85 ta Tere o te seek exedest teenies 85 A Active slide 95 96 107 Address cooococccccccncononnnancnonannnnnnnnnanans 107 Address Context 107 Administrative Rights 127 Animation Character LI MM 10 LOODING 2 is 10 Miscellaneous 10 29 30 40 41 77 81 104 105 116 119 Random eeeess 10 30 PowerPoint eren enn 77 81 121 AT amp T Natural Voices sss 9 37 AT amp T Natural Voices Text To Speech E EE S More US EG Dasha Dr rti Rr Duc D uU ERES 105 Author file 125 128 133 Backgro nd i reet x priis 48 Balloons 9 29 35 36 37 39 41 46 91 mag 48 49 BO0k Mak minivan cian clas 82 C CAPO Masia cevneeaveasieanttregeens 56 CD Burnllig cir ds 135 Files 124 129 130 132 133 135 Image folder 123 129 134 135 Layout oso menn 128 134 A O eise 125 129 self starting 123 Variables icons brote soe ca ed 124 Viewer 123 124 125 134 CD Prep 9 85 105 123 124 125 127 128 129 130 133 134 135 136 139 s m 60 66 70 75 Center nica ike ha va ee aa E ER oe 31 Character Animation eseseeennem mnn 10 Behavior eiie tria n 119 Commands eeeenn nme 91 Gallery 19 20 21 23 107 SOL CBS cs ii
32. it will be turned on automatically Prevent Double Execution If you try to execute a PPV or VPM file while PowerPoint and Vox Proxy are open you will now get an error message asking you to close PowerPoint before re trying Currently if you run a PPV VPM or CDPrep disk while you are in PowerPoint it opens 2 copies of Vox Proxy simultaneously which causes speech to play twice and also causes a shut down problem that can lead to other errors The Script Writer has a new Tile Untile button Tiling works much like the help window in PowerPoint 2002 2003 It will tile itself on the left side of PowerPoint Character animation pull down lists now include a Print menu item so you can print a list of animations for that character The search path nas been enhanced for media and macro files so that the presentation file location will always be in the search path When specifying files in commands like PlayMedia and RunMacro you can now leave the path off altogether if the files are located in EITHER their default folder like vox proxy media OR wherever the presentation file is located For example PlayMedia entertainr mid s RunMacro Merlin Pearl of Wisdom Waitfor media now uses the actual media position instead of the computer clock so that if the user pauses and restarts the script stays in synch The Vox Proxy Player Purpose The Vox Proxy Player is a set of software which allows other users to play Vox Proxy enhanced PowerPo
33. language Test Speech Test the line of speech where the cursor is in the script Use the character which is current at that point in the script Prompt if the character is not visible Character Gallery Display a dialog box showing all available characters Animations can be demonstrated for each character shown See Character Gallery Close Agent Characters Remove any characters currently displayed on the screen Toolbars Speech Toolbar The Speech toolbar is visible as a floating toolbar It contains many of the features of the Speech panel from the Script Wizard When each button is pressed it inserts the appropriate speech tag at the cursor position in the script The Test button is convenient for testing that line of speech in the script The toolbar appears similar to the following Speech Wizard X gt Emphasize gt Start Monotone gt Start Whisper Start Normal gt Reset to defaults b Address Context gt E mail Context g Test speech Emphasize Insert the speech tag emp at the cursor position in the script Emphasize the next word only Monotone Insert the speech tag Chr Monotone at the cursor position in the script Monotone begins at this point and ends at the end of the current line or when either the Normal or Reset to Defauts tag is encountered Whisper Insert the speech tag Chr Whisper at the cursor position in the script See Monotone Normal Insert the speech
34. pronunciation example Buttons on the Macro Menu allow you to Run the selected macro Stop the macro once it is running Delete the selected macro file Create a new macro Embed the macro script into the active presentation file or into a macro file Select alternate macro folders Page 2 of the Macro Menu allows you to work with embedded macros 26 Macros TP Sc ript Macros m fex Tools Help Macro Files Embedded Macros re VoxProxpSPPT Embedded macro em C Shot macros embedded in macro file break On this page you can display macro scripts that are Embedded in the active presentation file Embedded in a macro file Running macros Running a Macro File Macro Files may be run from the macro menu in any of three ways 1 Single click on the macro name then click on the Run button 2 Double click on the selected macro name 3 Click the Test button on the Script Writer From Windows with PowerPoint and Vox Proxy close you can run a macro file by opening the file Macros can be run from any Vox Proxy script using the RunMacro command Example Interrupting a Running Macro A running macro can be interrupted in several ways depending upon what the macro has displayed If the macro is running on your desktop on top of your desktop or any applications that may be open either click on the small X close button in the upper right corner of the screen or right click the Script
35. sample swf at 25 25 size 50 50 scale ExactFit PlayFlash file c program files vox proxy sample swf at 25 25 size 50 50 close Align TL Wizard Miscellaneous Commands ug PlayFlash command Help Shockwave Flash File File Browse m Size and location Location Center x 50 Ve 50 Move on Slide Size W 50 H 50 m Scale amp Alignment Align movie in window Center C Edge Left Right Top J Bottom Scaling options Show all keep aspect ratio may cause border No border keep aspect ratio may lose one edge Exact fit stretch to fit window exactly may distort image m Options MV Auto close Stop script until done Loop Play Play movie Insert Close PlayMedia Plays a media file audio or video using Microsoft Media Player Media Player has the advantage of playing more media types than the default MCI player used by PowerPoint Use the CloseMedia command to close the media window and or audio Syntax PlayMedia nowait file at X Y hold size S controls C volume V loop N ontop Options 1 File Be sure to include quote marks around the file name If no path is specified the standard search path will be used 62 Reference 2 Screen position AT X Y default 50 50 3 Hold If you include the word hold the script will not continue until the video file is complete 4 Display size Select one of the following size 1X A
36. slides with scripts If you do NOT see that icon you must turn Show all scripts on The problem is that this feature does not appear in the default PowerPoint menus Here s how you add it In PowerPoint click Tools Customize Click on the Commands page it is probably the default Inthe Categories column select Tools You will drag and drop the new menu item onto your Tools Macro menu In the Commands column click on Show All Scripts and HOLD DOWN THE MOUSE BUTTON while you drag the command up onto PowerPoint s Tools menu The tools menu will drop down Continue to hold the mouse button and move down to the macro menu Move the cursor over the macro menu and release the button when you are pointing below the Security item The Show All Scripts menu item will now appear on your Tools Macro menu After adding the menu item make sure that Show All Scripts is turned ON It will show a check mark next to it when it is on This will solve the halting slide show performance problems Miscellaneous Whenever I open the Help files in Vox Proxy I get either a Dialer or Work Offline dialog box 120 Troubleshooting Vox Proxy Help is in HTML and uses Microsoft Internet Explorer for its display If you have a web url address set as your home page in Internet Explorer and you are not connected to the Internet then Internet Explorer will prompt to connect You can avoid the connection dialog box by setting the home page
37. sure you have the same number of Click or WaitForClick commands as you have PowerPoint custom animations on slide objects If you are unsure or if the slide does not play properly use the Diagnose button on the Script writer Click supports the nowait option allowing you to start the slide animation while a character is speaking or performing an animation Synonym NextAnimation Syntax Click or NextAnimation Examples Show Paul at left center balloons off Point45 call Say Good morning The first topic Id like to talk about is 77 Vox Proxy Documentation Wizard PowerPoint Commands EndShow End the current slide show Close any characters which may be visible Syntax EndShow Wizard PowerPoint Commands FirstSlide Go to the first slide in the presentation Syntax FirstSlide Wizard PowerPoint Commands GotoSlide Go to the specified slide number The slide number may be specified either as a relative slide number starting with 1 or a Slide ID Slide ID s are shown in the Wizard form for the GotoSlide command If you use relative slide numbers they must be changed manually if you add or delete slides Slide IDs remain constant with moving or deleting slides and so do not need to be kept updated However the PowerPoint Viewer does not support slide IDs so if you anticipate showing your presentation with the viewer including from CD Prep you should use slide numbers rather than IDs S
38. the Character Gallery form can be a valuable way to locate the character on the screen and insert Show or Moveto commands at the appropriate locations in your script Follow these steps First be sure that the cursor in your script text field is at the position where you want the Show or Moveto command inserted Select the Character Gallery either from the Script Writer toolbar or View menu or from the Vox Proxy menu in PowerPoint Display one or more characters While displaying the slide you re working on start a full screen slide show in PowerPoint press PowerPoint s Slide Show view button If you want to see the character in a particular animation pointing or gesturing for example so that when you position him on the slide he will be pointing precisely where you want click on the Preview button You may also right click on any visible character and choose Animations from the character s menu Drag the character wherever you want Right click on the character and select Insert Moveto or Insert Show An appropriate command will be inserted into your script text Repeat the last two steps as needed each time relocating the cursor to the appropriate place in your script 20 Character Gallery Previewing Animations While a character is displayed in the gallery window press the Preview button A list of animations available for that character will appear similar to the following V
39. the currently selected script text into the Windows clipboard Paste Paste the text contents of the Windows clipboard into the script at the current cursor position Find and Replace The find and replace feature is also available by pressing control F while in the Script Writer Find and replace will work on the current slide or macro or on all slides in a presentation The find and replace form appears similar to the following 102 Script Writer li Script Find and Replace Find Replace Find what Search this slide C Search all slides Match case of string Find Next Cancel File menu New Begins a new macro script This item is enabled only when the Macro Page is open and is disabled while viewing slide scripts Same as pressing the New button on the standard toolbar Open Open a new macro file This item is enabled only when the Macro Page is open and is disabled while viewing slide scripts Same as pressing the Open button on the standard toolbar Save Save the current script Same as pressing the Save button on the standard toolbar Windows shortcut key is Control S Save As Same as Save but allows you to specify the file name and applies only to macros This item is enabled only when the Macro Page is open and is disabled while viewing slide scripts Save As Presentation for VP Player Saves a copy of the active presentation file with the file extension PPV rat
40. to Blank in Internet Explorer Tools Internet Options General Home page PowerPoint Behavior During a slide show either a slide changes too soon or the wrong slide animation appears Your script contains more Click commands than there are animations on the slide Remember that the Custom Animation must be set to appear on mouse click and not automatically by time Use the Diagnose button on the Script Writer to check your script animation commands for consistency with your slide animations When I go to a specific slide during a slide show a character appears in the upper left corner of the screen rather than where it is supposed to Each slide script must stand alone if is to be restartable At the beginning of each slide script be sure to put a Show command to place each character on the screen Otherwise the slide show will work correctly if run continuously but may not if you skip to a specific slide One or more characters that Hide at the end of a slide reappear as the next slide begins This is usually caused by hiding several characters at the same time at the end of a slide The NextSlide command waits for the LAST character to finish hiding before changing slides but if an earlier character has a slower Hide animation it may not be completed when the slide changes so he may reappear The solution is to rearrange the order in which the characters hide making the slowest one hide last If the character reapp
41. to play on whatever version of PowerPoint that the user may have some of your PowerPoint features may not work Why would you NOT require that it always play on the viewer Only in rare instances The viewer does not support running VB macros programs or opening linked or embedded objects Also a few Vox Proxy features are not supported under the viewer LastSlideViewed WriteShapeText When you click Finish on the final page of the CD Prep Wizard you will be ready to create the actual CD Image files First if you have not yet named the CD layout you will be asked to provide a name The program will then proceed to create the CD Image and copy all of your relevant files to the appropriate folders Remember where your CD Image folder is It is shown on the finish page to remind you When you burn the CD remember to burn the contents of the CD Image folder not the folder itself lid co Prep Wizard Menu1 File View Tools Help Congratulations You are now ready to create the files needed for the CD image 795 The CD image directory will be c program files vox proxy cdimage_menu If this directory does not exist it will be created Ashen creating the CD do not copy the image directory itself but copy all files and folders WITHIN this directory With this option the CD will always play on the embedded PowerPoint Viewer even if the user has PowerPoint Click Finish now to complete this process or Cancel to cance
42. when you use them you should supply the back slash as appropriate amp tempdir Contains the path to the Windows temp folder on the user s computer For use in CD Prep scripts to locate files temporarily copied to the user s hard drive amp windir Contains the path to the user s Windows folder amp appdir c program files vox proxy amp chardir c windows msagent chars amp DiskDrive current default disk drive amp macrodir c program files vox proxy macros amp mediadir c program files vox proxy media amp presdir c program files vox proxy presentations amp tempdir windows temp folder amp windir windows folder amp DiskDrive Contains the drive letter of the default drive and a colon It is used in presentations to be played on CD Prep disks to determine the drive on which the CD is playing Presentation related variables amp pptpath Contains the path to the currently active PowerPoint presentation Does NOT end with a back slash amp SlideNumber Contains the number of the currently displayed slide The special Response variable amp Response is a special pre defined variable that contains the result of specific user inputs or actions For example it can contain the text of the user s response to a Listen ListenFor or ListBox command If the response was not recognized it is empty 86 Reference Other special variables amp excelChangeCell
43. which may be in the same slide or any subsequent slide Script Macros Macros are just Vox Proxy scripts that have been saved into text files with a file extension of VPM and are normally located in Vox Proxy s macros folder Macro scripts are edited from the Script Writer just like PowerPoint Slide Scripts Embedded Scripts An Embedded Scripts is actually a special kind of Script Macro that has been saved within either the PowerPoint presentation file but NOT associated with any particular slide or within a Script Macro file Embedding a script macro allows you to call that macro from any slide script without the necessity of having to have access to a Script Macro file Therefore when you distribute a presentation to another user you do not have to distribute the Script Macros separately They can be included within the presentation file itself Introduction Speech Basics Vox Proxy Characters speak in one of two ways 1 Using a SAPI4 compliant Text To Speech engine TTS engines convert text into audible speech Vox Proxy includes the TruVoice TTS engine distributed by Microsoft but any SAPI4 TTS engine can be used AT amp T Natural Voices are available as an option for Vox Proxy The following script commands are used to produce speech from a TTS engine Say Speak A sample speech command would be Say Good morning The wizard form used to enter test and modify speech using TTS engines is the Say Something wiz
44. you Merlin Hide Script with PowerPoint commands Show Paul at Left Center balloons off size 1 5 Greet Say This amp tod we ll be talking about our three goals for the next quarter Point45 Click RestPose Say barst Dilah Gesture Left Click Explain Say Second blah blah Post 135 Click RestPose Say and third blah blab blah NextSlide 16 Introduction Program Updates and Support Support is available via E mail at support voxproxy com Program updates tutorials script macros FAQs and other files are available in the support pages of our web site www voxproxy com support htm Vox Proxy s author Tom Atkins can be reached at Right Seat Software Inc 1110 12th Street Golden CO 80401 1118 303 278 2244 17 Character Gallery Character Gallery Form The character gallery form appears similar to the following Click on hot areas of the form for more information Md Character Gallery Ea Xx File Tools Help Right click a character for more options Select Preview Insert Close All Properties Close Character Description am Paul a PowerPoint presenter for Vox Proxy Created for Right Seat Software Inc ww voxproxy com by La Cantoche productions All Rights reserved Copyright La Cantoche Productions Link to the VVeb Site for Paul s creator Functions that you can perform on the Character Gallery include Selecting a Character Preview Character Animations Inser
45. 6 85 Pre defined 85 100 104 User defined 69 85 100 With Files eere 66 76 Viewer 123 124 125 134 Voice IBDHE oee ere e 33 34 Index Output 9 36 37 39 41 42 46 Prerecorded cccccsceeeeeeseeeuceeeeeneeanens 37 NO lick EE 46 VOIUME sivsiicarncaad one 46 59 62 Vox Proxy Player 123 W Wait Characters cose cese cisco meten a 43 91 CHICK EU 81 Commands ci sci esp iv aat EDI E Ue thawed 43 Media ssesssssse meme mnn 74 ngu UT 51 52 74 WaitCommands nenne 91 WaitFor eene 72 73 74 91 WaitforClick eseesssse 77 81 105 WaitforNextAnimation eese 81 Wav Files 2 c ooi etes ta 9 37 64 WAhiSDOl scort ume nbn xen 9 46 Wildcard e Ec 58 MIS isses aiii cli aa dia oia 107 Wizard toolbar eese 107 Word iocis ae cutee xac Eva Cua cat 72 WordTime eene 72 Workbook eeeenene 66 70 75 WorkSheet ccccccscseseeeseeeeeeaees 66 70 75 Witness il 75 76 145
46. 81 Navigation 78 79 80 114 Slide sese 77 78 79 80 96 Preferences cccseeceeseeeseeetaeeees 40 43 69 PECAR iia 67 Program Updates 17 Programming commands 82 PFOMPEs TP TT Tr 56 Pronunciation esussses 9 41 46 Pronunciation Dictionary 41 R Random esee 10 65 Read Only veisntecceas teeth ra a geese 70 72 Remove Agent Characters button 107 Replace eseseene 102 144 ROSE naaa 46 107 RUIT AO e A 67 68 Run mode uc dt er rene 1 7 SAPI ninia rada 9 127 SAY iio 9 41 46 91 105 Say WW sitios ker hen raid 91 105 SEMA E exet tae exe e vit e 38 61 ScaleCharacters 91 Screen Resolution 38 54 Script BASES iaa a ta 8 EUIEDBE ovina ai 95 96 97 General Rules for 45 Guide to first 12 Samples seeeseeneen 16 Tips and Techniques 113 114 116 Miizard eee 91 92 93 94 MIPIEGE Iioc oreste ves 95 96 97 Scroll Darin aii ii 70 SOCIO e cari ca rias cent bs 66 76 Self starting CD 105 SOT ra 46 69 73 SOPAS iii dai id 40 91 SHOPS 00000 an 81 105 Show eene 10 39 40 91 ShowWEXCel 2 o22 di abi leida 70 ShowWlortd ec eene 72 SO uni
47. DA Lr 109 Standard TOODA iaoe nie aa a E a aAa NTE a dS erca uae ADEE A AE OE EEN 110 TOO STO AA a wad de oe A bod a wank Ea dake sd 110 AYAPA LR eee 111 TIPS ANA TECANIQUES mesier sean deat or tides A orm EEEE A AS EAEE APONTE A 113 Interacting with PoWerPOolnt 1u tree a 113 Navigatirig mn POWerPOIlE ss deca Senate teenie AA A eaten ciui eee UI ade nei uae EDD 114 Scripting Speech ers eiiis ooo ain Ore En Er HRI E 114 Using M ultiple Characters 2 tier tere iaa 116 Troubleshooting o cedes erani re rh Crea rn xa ceded deanna Heed ala owe rea i Hired a exea s PRA awed Ra RE na seme 119 Character BEN AVION iisa ies oes desi ere duce ioe rete eiue pe Bivins daw ends qeu oret Aa NETANE TEARS 119 Miscellaneous inis aiecne eoe ec e actrma qu wer cat Qa v e gov s autdluaaatnaiiied vier aida e Ra C Ew Pr aH a De rs 120 PowerPoint Behavior uerus ier oe e onere nn Eon a dav Nn pink RR oh codec daw pae R Ae ear p cue beast 121 EDO on ET 123 UN DC Em 123 What s newsin Version g a A agin RP E RO red daa ME EE 123 Presentation Guidelines cesesseseeeseeeenenee nennen nnnm nennen sane 124 The PowerPoint 2003 Viewer cececcecece eee e nent nennen nenne nennen sare 124 Minimum Requirements for Playback ccececee eee eee e eee eee een eee e nennen eene 125 RECOMENTAR A A RUE Ue aM rd 125 How or Bepa Uu 125 Administrative Rights and other XP Issues ssssssseseeeennenenenememenenn nn 127 The GCD Prep WIZaEd
48. Note that if you set this timeout too short it may affect other non looping animations as well Preferences Wait Commands 98 Script Writer a File Locations Timeout This Preference allows you to set the maximum amount of time that any animation will play Its primary use is to prevent looping animations from running forever Looping animations will run until stopped in one of three ways a Stop command an Interrupt command or by timing out Note that if you set this timeout too short it may affect other non looping animations as well Language All characters use the language specified here as their default language You must have a Text To Speech engine for the default language installed on your computer Vox Proxy does not check this If you do not the default will be English Tru Voice You may override this default when you Show individual characters using the Language command a Miscellaneous Pronunciation The Pronunciation Dictionary provides a way for you to adjust the pronunciation of special words or phrases Whenever a character s speech encounters one of these items the item will appear in the speech balloon as it is written in the script the written words but the character will say it as it appears in the spoken words This is useful not only for foreign words or phrases but for technical terms which may not be defined within the speech engine There are three pages in the Pronunciation Dictiona
49. Other Agent Commands Speech Balloon Options Help Show Balloons Yes No Insert V Sizeto Text Lines E H Cancel Comic Sans MS Size 12 E Disappear 29 Vox Proxy Documentation Make the currently active character disappear This command closes the character and does not play the character s Hide animation This may be useful if the character s Hide animation is lengthy or plays unwanted sounds Do The active character performs an animation This command is not normally necessary because the default command is to perform a character animation by that name The optional wait or nowait will over ride the default behavior The following commands are equivalent do Greet Merlin Greet Greer The style character or vertical bar is used to provide a list of alternative animations to be played The program will randomly choose to play one of the animations In the list This may be useful in a slide or macro which is repeated often to provide some variety in the character s actions Syntax Do animation Examples Do Greet Do Explain Greet Explain Announce Wizard Do Something Animations for Paul Help Browse animations to test them To insert into script double click or select and click Insert Continue with any other animations that are consecutive Click Close or Insert amp Close when done Insert poire Insert amp Close Blink Confused Congratulate Cross
50. Player they can still play your slide shows complete with all your Vox Proxy scripts Vox Proxy Documentation The Media Player 9 support is completely transparent any media files played with the PlayMedia command will detect and support the version of Media Player available Previously if the user had Media Player 9 PlayMedia would not work Version 3 comes with an entirely new online help system complete with context sensitive help topics The full users manual is available for printing as both a Microsoft Word document and a PDF file both located in the vox proxy help folder The CD Prep add on for Vox Proxy has been considerably enhanced to make it much easier to use and to automatically embed the new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer files on the CD New commands DisplayClock Displays a digital clock with optional timer Styles include clock time countdown timer or countup timer You can specify an alarm sound file Size and colors can be selected Options are included to hold the script for a specified length of time or until the countdown or countup time is reached The clock should be expecially useful for breaks during live presentations Input Provides a simple single field input form Allows you to ask the user for text data and assign it to a Vox Proxy variable For example you could ask for the user s name and then use he name in speech ScaleCharacters This new command allows you to specify an authored screen resolutio
51. RIGHT SEAT SOFTWARE INC VOX PROXT 50 Talking Animated Characters for PowerPointe User Manual Right Seat Software Inc 1110 12 Street Unit A Golden CO 80401 303 278 2244 support voxproxy com 2001 2004 Right Seat Software Inc Table Of Contents A O 1 Welcome tO VOX PROM Yas ia ae ann A EA A AA E e 1 What s New in Vox Proxy Version Denia a save Rear aw a 1 TOS Vox Pr xy Player ici aut dated cn pias cerea Cone cn Eee sse san nies A delete Cava ERA EXER RIVER E peed lee 4 Getting Started MT 6 PowerPoint MOM Us ws cate woken iere per RD rne a 7 Script BASICS isis ELE 8 Speech BASICS LITER 9 Character AnimatiOn reise a RR e IRE 10 Guide to your First SCrlpt seis deer ects A og on EINER Veeder eda dd oe EE E RUE 12 Sample SCripts e 16 Simple script with two characters ssssssssssesseenenememememememenn eene memes sene nn 16 Script with PowerPoint commands occcccocnnncnnncncncnnencncononnnnrnrnrnrnrananenrrarnananinenrnrananene 16 Program Updates and Support eee retra n neun Free xy a danh dees paia a raaa 17 Character Gallery ainia tu cas Peis EFE ERE OO vores Gian niu sees Chea ERPERERRR A aii 19 Character Gallery Former reir tern potra eed heeded ster e neds eens Ede ER PEE SERRE ate ee 19 ClOSS All RR 19 Downloading Characters acti dr cece stat dace cues A a a a Ra ER hes 20 Inserting a Show COMMANG coccion epa kun
52. RandomLine RandomMacro ReadExcel ReadFile Run RunMacro Set SetPrefs ShowExcel ShowWord StartTimer WaitFor WriteExcel a WriteFile PowerPoint Commands Click EndShow FirstSlide GotoSlide LastSlide astSlideViewed NextSlide PreviousSlide RunSlideShow WaitforClick Script Wizard 93 Vox Proxy Documentation WriteShapeText Programming Commands a BookMark GoTo f Else End a Select Case Else End 94 Script Writer Script Writer Form The Script Writer is the place where all of your script authoring takes place It gives you access to a host of script writing tools including the extensive click simple Script Wizard As you become proficient at writing Vox Proxy scripts you can simply type the commands directly into the script edit window Right clicking in the script edit window brings up the cascading menus of the Power Scripting Menu where you will find handy shortcuts to most script writing features Click on any hot region below for more details The cursor will change to a hand where additional details are available ll Vox Proxy Script PEE File Edit View Insert Tools MEGS DWS BIA lt ZZ al Test P Tile Samples Pp Wizard Slide Macro i ay Welcome to the Script Writer Script Edit Window The Script Edit window is a plain text field used for writing or editing scripts The window resides on one of two
53. Sausage script here Case Hawaiian place your Hawaiian script here Case Veggie place your Veggie script here ELSE place script here for the case where Peedy didn t recognize what the user said END Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Variables Variables are special words that are used to represent text or numbers within a script Names of variables always begin with an ampersand amp and consist of a single case sensitive word without spaces An example of a variable is amp date which contains the current date in the form January 1 2005 Another example is amp name which might contain the text Alice Variable can be used within speech text or within other script commands There are two kinds of variables pre defined and user defined Pre defined Variables 85 Vox Proxy Documentation Pre defined variables are variables that are built into Vox Proxy You can use them wherever variables can be used but you cannot change them Pre defined variables include Date and time related variables amp date Date in form January 1 2005 amp time Time in form 2 00pm amp day Day of week in form Monday amp month Month in form January amp year Year in form 2005 amp tod Time of day in form morning afternoon or evening Directory path variables Several pre defined variables are provided for directory paths These variables do NOT end with a back slash so
54. Show amp pres Excel Tutorial ppt 6 12 RunSlideShow http www voxproxy com downloads Tutorial Variables ppt Wizard PowerPoint Commands 80 Reference 1 RunStideShow command Load and run a presentation file as a slide show Specify optional starting and ending slide numbers File Presentation Browse All Slides C Slides From To Insert Cancel WaitforClick Wait until the user presses a mouse click to start the next animation on the current slide before proceeding with the script See the discussion on using Click and WaitforClick in self running presentations Synonym WaitforNextAnimation Syntax WaitforClick or WaitforNextAnimation Wizard PowerPoint Commands WriteShapeText Displays text in a specified PowerPoint slide shape on the current slide at a specified position This is one way to display text on the fly during a slide show It can be used with a user defined variable to display text that has been read from a file or worksheet Important note This command will not work when playing a slide show with the PowerPoint Viewer Syntax WriteShapeText shape S position P text T Options are S is the name of the shape into which the text will be displayed P is the position at which to insert the text Position 1 will insert at the beginning of any existing text T is the text to insert Examples WriteShapeText shape Rectangle 1 position 1 text Tom Atkins W
55. Upper Left The location 50 50 is the same as Center 25 25 is the same as Upper Left and so on The speed parameter S is a number equal to zero or larger Higher numbers are slower The default value is 1000 A speed of zero causes the character to be relocated instantaneously without playing its move animation The fastest animated move is a value of 1 The word atspeed may be elided Syntax Moveto location atspeed S Examples Show Peedy at Upper Left Moveto Lower Right Moveto 75 75 Moveto Lower Right atspeed 1 Wizard Other Agent Commands Move Paul Help Show at location C Instantaneous C Specify C Wait C NoWait Default Wait Insert Cancel NoBalloons Do not display text balloons when the current character speaks Equivalent commands Balloons off Balloons off Show character at location balloons off Wizard Other Agent Commands 35 Vox Proxy Documentation PointAt Point in the direction of another character Unlike Gestures pointing animations are made in 45 degree increments but are supported only by characters that are known to support pointing animations At the time of this writing the characters are Paul Chuck Brooke Ben Susan Simon Doc and Tom If you use PointAt with a character that does not support pointing animations then it will default to Gestureat PointAt can also be used to point in the direction of a visible window Substitute for the name any u
56. Vox Proxy Documentation P ListBox Wizard Help Display this in List Box Return this in amp Response A L1 l 5 First thing Second thing two Delete Insert Cancel C Wait C NoWait Default Wait Insert evaluation template MacroMenu Displays a menu from which the user selects a macro to run Wildcard is a specification for matching macro names Note that case is significant in macro names Syntax MacroMenu name Name must be enclosed in quotes Name can include wild cards to select all macro names containing certain text Examples MacroMenu Displays a menu containing all macros in the macro folder MacroMenu Tutorial Displays a menu of all macros whose name starts with Tutorial MacroMenu Tutorials Same as above but the macro names displayed contain only the text following the word Tutorial MacroMenu Chapter Tutorial Display matching macro names containing any character in the place of Wizard Miscellaneous Commands MacroMenu command Help Enter text with wildcard for matching macro names Insert e g Tutorial or Tutorial t Name is Caption Lance 58 Reference MediaVolume Changes the audio volume for a media file that has been started using the PlayMedia command This command can be useful to lower the volume of music or other audio when a character is speaking Syntax MediaVolume level time The level can vary from O to 100 The
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58. aracter you are actually running a script command to show the character When the character appears it automatically plays its built in show animation There is therefore a difference between the Show command and the show animation In the midst of a script if you want an already visible character to perform its show animation you must use the Do command Show Peedy at center Say Let me fly back in for you Do show Hiding Characters Like Show there is both a Hide command as well as a Hide animation By default when you use the Hide command in a script the character automatically plays its Hide animation You can avoid the Hide animation by using the Disappear command rather than Hide Idle Animations When characters are on the screen without speaking or moving for more than a few seconds they default to randomly playing their idle animations animations whose names begin with idle You can change the default to turn off idle animations in preferences and you can turn them on and off in your script using the IdleAnimations command Sound Effects Some animations are accompanied by a sound called sound effects Sound effects can also be turned off in preferences as well as in your script using the SoundEffects command Wait Options Normally animations will not play until the previous character s speech or animation is complete The nowait option allows the command to be acted on without waiting for the previo
59. ard which is accessed by the say something button on the Script Wizard Speech text can also be displayed in optional Speech Balloons Speech balloons provide a visual cue to the speech in cartoon like bubbles displayed over the character s head You can change the font size and other characteristics of speech balloons using the Balloons wizard Speech can be modified in several ways using Speech Tags Speech Tags are special character strings inserted into the body of the speech text and are used to modify the pronunciation pitch tempo or interpretation rules called Text Normalization for the speech Specific TTS engines may or may not support speech tags The most commonly used speech tag is emp which is used to emphasize a specific word For example Say Vox Proxy is emp very cool To modify the pronunciation of words or phrases use the Pronunciation Dictionary available on the Tools menu of the Script Writer Rules for pronunciation of various kinds of numbers addresses and abbreviations are defined in a text normalization document for the TTS engine The text normalization documentation for the TruVoice TTS engine is available in the document program files vox proxy speech tvtn doc Using pre recorded WAV files Vox Proxy supports a special command that allows characters to speak using your own pre recorded voice files SayWav The only file format supported is WAV You can record your own wav files using the Wi
60. ase say yes or no Listen IF amp Response IS yes Say OK let s take a more detailed look ELSE Say OK we ll skip the detail GotoSlide 26 END Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Select Case Else End The Select command which can also be written Evaluate begins a section of script which evaluates multiple possible responses from the user called Cases and runs a piece of script for each case 84 Reference It can be interpreted in English as follows Select the user s response In case it s ONE run the following script In case it s TWO run the following script In case it s THREE run the following script OR ELSE if it s none of the above run the following script Now I m done Select is most often used with either the ListenFor or the ListBox command Synonyms Select Evaluate InCase Case ORELSE ELSE Syntax SELECT variable CASE valuel Script to be run if variable equals valuei CASE value2 Script to be run if variable equals value2 etc as many additional CASEs as needed ELSE Script to be run if variable does not equal any of the cases END Examples Show Peedy at Center Say Welcome to Peedy s Pizza Say Would you like Pepperoni Sausage Hawaiian or Veggie ListenFor Pepperoni Sausage Hawaiian Veggie Select amp Response Case Pepperoni place your Pepperoni script here Case Sausage place your
61. at the character remains seated If idle animations are on after a few seconds the character will stand and begin its normal idle animations The command will remain in effect only until the character is closed Syntax IdleAnimations on off Examples Show Paul at Center Announce Say Good morning IdleAnimations off Sale lie e say How nice it is to Wizard Other Agent Commands Interrupt The Interrupt command signals another character which is in the process of playing a looping animation to stop playing Note that this command must be issued by another character not the one that is looping See also the timeout preference item Syntax Interrupt character name Examples Show Genie at center Processing Show Peedy at right center nowait Say nowait What are you doing Genie Interrupt Genie Genie say whatever Wizard Other Agent Commands Language Specify the language to be spoken by the currently active character name may be any of the following 1 A valid language name with or without quotes 2 The numeric language code for example US English 1033 3 The hexadecimal language code in format amp amp Hxxxx for example US English is amp amp HO0409 A TTS engine for the specified language must be installed on your system If an appropriate TTS engine is not found it will use the character s default speech engine 32 Reference Syntax Language name decimal code hex code
62. ation where location is an X Y screen location for the center of the display in percent Default is center 2 alarm file where file is the path and name of an audio file to be played as an alarm for either the timer or countdown options Deefault is no alarm 3 style clock countdown or countup If not specified clock is assumed For clock the following display styles are available 4 clock hh mm ss show seconds 5 clock hh mm do not show seconds 6 clock hh mm am show am pm 7 clock HH mm ss show hours in military 24 hour display 8 size N Relative size of the display where N is an integer number greater than or equal to 1 The default is 10 9 timer T If the style is either a countdown or countup timer this specifies the time limit in either seconds or hr min sec For clock display the timer events will fire after this incremental time elapses from the start of the display 10 bgcolor C Specifies the background color for the display Available colors are red blue green black yellow cyan magenta white gray 11 fgcolor C Specifies the foreground text color Same color options as background Default colors are the windows defaults normally black on white 12 hold yes or no Specifies whether the script should hold and wait while the clock is visible The hold will be released either when the clock display is closed or after the Timer time if action release is specified 13 action release or delete Specifies the act
63. c C From start of Slide Show From start of Slide From start of a PlayMedia file audio or video From start of Flash movie AAA From start of custom timer p End of media C End of a PlayMedia file audio or video C End of Flash movie EN Insert Close WriteExcel This command writes a value to a cell in an Excel worksheet It is normally used to write the contents of a variable The value is written by specifying the name of the file the worksheet and the cell range Syntax WriteExcel file F sheet S cell C value amp Count File is an Excel workbook XLS S is a valid worksheet name in the workbook C is a valid cell value is either a constant or the name of an existing variable Examples WriteExcel file c tests questions xls sheet Sheet1 cell B9 value amp Count Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 75 Vox Proxy Documentation WJ Write to Excel Help File Browse Leave the file name blank to read from the visible worksheet Worksheet Cell Value Display Insert Cancel WriteFile This command writes a value to an ini style text file It is normally used to write the contents of a variable The value is written by specifying the SECTION name KEY and VALUE If the specified section and key names are new they will be created in the file If the file does not exist it will be created Syntax WriteFile file F section S key K value am
64. can be animated from a Vox Proxy script using the Click command and can be written to using the WriteShapeText command Speech normalization A set of pronunciation rules built into a Text To Speech Engine These rules include how to interpret and pronounce abbreviations addresses various kinds of numbers and so on Speech tag Special character strings inserted into the body of speech text used to modify the pronunciation pitch tempo or interpretation rules called Text Normalization for the speech T Timer A timer allows you to place a hold in your script waiting for a specified elapsed time Timers can be based on the slide show slide media or custom timers defined in your script See the StartTimer and Waitfor commands TTS Engine A Text To Speech application that converts written text into speech played through the computer s audio device TTS engines are available in multiple languages and from multiple sources Vox Proxy comes with the TruVoice TTS and can be ordered with the AT amp T Natural Voices V Variable A variable is a special word beginning with an ampersand that contains changeable text or numbers When used in a script the text or data is substituted for the variable before it is played 142 amp CHA 85 amp DiskDrive c00ccoccocccncocccnnonnnoncnncnnnnncnnnns 85 SMACKO IF orisirisii acining riata 85 amp MedliadiE tenetur nr iaa 85 UPS Pida 85 ARESPONSO m naar nia 57 amp Templdit ricos ia
65. ce Reset Rst amp r Reset to Say Chr whisper This is defaults a secret Rst But you didn t hear it from me Pause Pau N Pause for N Say Now pau 50 millisec listen pau 50 to pau 50 me Volume VolI N Lower speech Say This is normal 46 default 65535 volume Vol 32000 but I can also speak softly Reference Pitch Pit N Set relative Say I can speak normally pitch Pit 150 or in a squeaky voice Address Ctx Address amp ca Special say Ctx Address I am context rules from Den CO 80401 for text normalization Email Ctx E mail amp ce Special Say Ctx E mail Visit us context rules at www voxproxy com for text normalization Special speech tags are also used to specify different text for display in the speech balloons from that which is spoken These tags are used by the Pronunciation Dictionary The address and email context tags are the same when used with the TruVoice TTS engine in English but are different with other languages For documentation on text normalization rules for each language included with Vox Proxy see the MS Word files in the folder program files Nvox proxy speech Wait Options for Script Commands nowait Normally script commands will not be acted upon until the previous character s speech or action is complete The nowait option allows the command to be acted on without waiting for the previous character This option is normally not needed when you are working w
66. cter can speak or play an animation it must first be visible Hidden characters will move but not speak Before a character takes any action it automatically waits for any previous character to complete its action You may over ride this default using the nowait parameter A typical script to show a character perform an animation and say something would look like this Show Peedy Greer Say Hi My name is Peedy Screen location is specified in one of two ways 1 Two numbers from 0 to100 X and Y values representing the relative horizontal and vertical positions of the character on the screen 2 Any logical combination of the words Upper Center Lower Left and Right For example at Upper Left The location 50 50 is the same as Center 25 25 is the same as Upper Left and so on To move the character after it is shown use Moveto For example Moveto Lower Right 45 Vox Proxy Documentation Comments notes to yourself which are ignored by the script may be included in scripts by preceding the comment with a semicolon Any text following a semicolon is ignored except where a semicolon may appear in lines of speech Comments may not appear in lines of speech Say Speak or Think commands With two exceptions script commands must always be the first word on a line of script The first exception is where the command follows a character name For example Merlin say Hello Merlin Moveto 50 50 Merlin Gre
67. d This corresponds to program files vox proxy on your system amp mediadir Vox Proxy s media folder This corresponds to program files Nvox proxy media on your system amp tempdir The windows temp folder on the end user s computer where the CD is playing Any files listed in the temp folder on the CD will be copied into this folder when the CD starts and deleted when the CD ends amp presdir Vox Proxy s presentations folder This corresponds to program files Nvox proxy presentations on your system amp windir The windows folder on the computer where the CD is playing amp pptpath The folder where the PowerPoint presentation resides on the computer where the CD is playing This would normally be amp DiskDrive presentations The PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Presentations run on the CD can support PowerPoint 97 or the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Vox Proxy scripts however cannot be accessed from within the presentation file by these programs Instead it uses a companion script text file with a file extension of VPS If you have not manually run the Export to file feature on the Tools menu of the Script Writer to create this companion file CD Prep will run it and prompt you On the finish page of the CD Prep wizard you may opt to require that the CD play on the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer which will be bundled on the CD For consistency of playback we strongly recommend that you use this feature If yo
68. d from Excel Help File Browse Leave the file name blank to read from the visible worksheet Worksheet Cell Variable Display Insert Cancel ReadFile 66 Reference This command reads a value from an ini style text file It is normally used with the Set command to assign the value to a variable The value is accessed by specifying the SECTION name and KEY for the value Syntax Set amp variable ReadFile file F section S key K file is the full path and name of an ini style text file S is a valid section in the file K is a valid key Examples The file c program files vox proxy test1 txt contains the following history qi In what year did President Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address q2 q3 The script command to assign question 1 to the variable 8Q would be Set amp Q ReadFile file c tests questions txt section history key ql Wizard Miscellaneous Commands P Read File Help File C Program Files Vox Proxy test1 txt Browse Section history Key 01 Variable amp Display Insert Cancel Run Execute a Windows program Syntax Run program options default folder Allows two parameters 1 Program options or parameters 2 Default directory 67 Vox Proxy Documentation Examples Open a text file with Notepad Run notepad readme txt Special cases allow you to invoke Windows Explorer Internet Explorer or your E mail cli
69. da Made tate ca 40 91 Slide Diagnose een 110 Interaction 5 erret tne 77 81 Navigation essesss 78 79 80 II fe A EA 121 SODE M i aa 95 96 SHOW pe 80 121 UI M O 96 TESE a a a 110 Sound effects 10 39 40 69 91 Speak ap ID Ru 9 41 46 91 Speech BallOONS 2 rnc ves 29 35 39 Commands for 36 37 41 ENDS coat tata a 9 42 Normalization 9 46 107 Prerecorded sceccececeseeseeeeeaeenees 9 37 Pronunciation 2 intor ira 99 Tags ete rentre cs 36 46 104 107 DELIA me terrane enema 9 42 Start Time Fascista oriens ea aerea 73 Stop Playing cernere 19 Style iaeiaiai 30 34 36 SUBDOEE E T 17 T cl 46 HT A 9 104 110 Test Speech dr iere 9 107 ja m 59 Text To Speech 125 Ep eee 29 41 91 r l EE 107 110 TIMEOUT m 69 MME eiia 51 52 70 72 73 74 TIDS aidia TU 113 114 116 Lp 59 Tool bar eer 70 107 110 TOD c iuxa t xena t ska eh ka pA a pa aor EROR Ra a Feeaka rios 62 Troubleshooting 110 Tr Moice TUS siii ii 9 A SER Ope EE OT RONEA Ye 9 42 46 TTSEngine eere nennen 9 42 91 Using Multiple Characters 116 V Variables ADOUE RU 85 Creating i e dina 69 85 100 Iii Excel een dira ena Es 66 75 Ieri ee 56 57 In paths eec eterno xa ra va eda 85 In speech scort 3
70. dardToolBar on off 10 FormattingToolBar on off 11 Headings on off Row and Column headings 12 WorkBookTabs on off 13 VScrollBar on off Vertical scroll bar 14 HScrollBar on off Horizontal scroll bar 15 GridLines on off Examples ShowExcel file c program files vox proxy sample xls at 25 25 size 50 50 sheet january FormulaBar off MenuBar off StandardToolBar off FormattingToolBar off WorkBookTabs off ShowExcel file http www voxproxy com downloads vptest xls at 25 25 size 50 50 sheet january FormulaBar off MenuBar off StandardToolBar off FormattingToolBar off WorkBookTabs off Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 71 Vox Proxy Documentation P ShowExcel command Help m Worksheet Excel File Browse Worksheet Activate cell Leave the file name blank to display a new empty worksheet Open file as Read only Size and location Location Center X 50 Y 50 Move on Slide Size Ww 50 H 50 m Display Options Menu bar Formula bar M Standard toolbar Formatting toolbar Row and Column headings Workbook tabs Vertical scroll bar Horizontal scroll bar Grid lines Show Excel Insert Cancel ShowWord Display a Microsoft Word document in a window A timer will start automatically when the Word window opens You may access the timer using WordTime with the WaitFor command Use the CloseWord command to close the Word window Syntax ShowW
71. e Speech Tags LastSlide Help For command Say LastSlideViewed Click Test speech PreviousSlide RunsSlideShow WaitForClick Script Commands Displays a cascading list of all script commands in three categories Character commands PowerPoint commands and Other commands Characters Displays a list of all characters If you select a character already used in your script it will just insert the character s name For characters not yet in your script it will display the New Character wizard Animations for character Displays a list of all animations for the character that is active at the cursor position Variables Displays a list of all variables currently defined including the current value for each variable Note that these values may be different when the script is run Speech Tags Displays all available speech tags such as emphasize Help for command Displays help for the command at the current cursor location in the script Test Speech Allows you to test the sound of a line of speech without playing the whole slide script Tools menu Wizard Displays a dialog box with access to all available script commands For a complete description and screen shot see Script Wizard Macros Activates the Macro Menu and switches the Script Edit Window to Macros See Macro Menu Preferences Variables Pronunciation Dictionary CD Prep Wizard If you have the optional CD Prep feature of Vox Proxy you will see the menu item f
72. e Separate each animation in the list with the style character or vertical bar For example Show Paul at center explain explain explain2 explain3 crossarms handsonhips Guide to your First Script Creating A Slide Script The Script Writer is the place where you create and edit slide scripts Follow these simple steps to create your first script 1 Open a new presentation in PowerPoint or open an existing presentation file and navigate to the slide you wish to create the script on This is important If you start creating a script without a presentation file open you will lose that script when you open the file 2 Open the Vox Proxy Script Writer from the PowerPoint menu Vox Proxy Run Vox Proxy with Slide Shows Script Writer h Tutorials Help 3 Onthe Script Wizard form click on the Wizard button 12 Introduction M Vox Proxy Script Slide 1 EER File Edit View Insert Tools Help SgjTes Tie gt Samples Side Macto f 8 4 On the Wizard form click on Show a New Character MI Script Wizard Help Insert agent character commands Either switch to another character iri your script THEN da T Uther agent gt M ove y say something something commands r Insert other script commands PowerPoint Miscellaneous commands commands 13 Vox Proxy Documentation 5 On the Show Character form click on Peedy 14 WJ Show Characte
73. e command NextSlide re sets all animations so that they will play the same way they played the first time 79 Vox Proxy Documentation the slide was shown If therefore you need to navigate directly to slides it is best to insert a duplicate slide with custom animations removed in front of the target slide and navigate to the blank slide The blank slide should contain a script with only the one command NextSlide NextSlide Go to the next slide in the presentation If there are no more animations on the current slide PowerPoint will move to the next slide Syntax NextSlide Wizard PowerPoint Commands PreviousSlide Go to the previous slide in the presentation The previous slide is the slide numerically preceding the current slide and may not be the last slide viewed by the user Syntax PreviousSlide Wizard PowerPoint Commands RunSlideShow Run the specified file in another slide show window The script continues on in its current slide show after the new slide show is ended You may optionally specify the starting and ending slides User defined variables may be used in the file specification Syntax RunSlideShow file startslide endslide File must be a PowerPoint file name with or without a path specification see specifying files File can also refer to a file on the internet using the file specification as http etc file ppt Examples RunSlideShow c tutorials Excel Tutorial ppt RunSlide
74. e character will be shown in the display panel on the right In order to keep this character on the screen press the Select button The character will move off the form and will remain on the screen even after the Gallery form is closed In order to recapture the character into the Gallery form either click on the character s name or double click on the character itself Character Images 23 Vox Proxy Documentation Characters available at extra cost 24 Macros Introduction Script Macros are Vox Proxy scripts that are not associated with a PowerPoint slide A Macro script can be saved in one of three places 1 Ina Macro File Macro Files are text files with the file extension VPM Vox Proxy Macro They can be run directly from Windows outside of PowerPoint by opening the vpm file from Windows Explorer or from a shortcut to the file 2 Embedded in a PowerPoint presentation file Macros that are embedded in a PowerPoint presentation can be run anywhere within the presentation s slide scripts using the RunMacro command In order to run an embedded macro from a slide script do not specify a path in the RunMacro command 3 Embedded in a Macro File Macro Files themselves can contain other embedded macros In this way the script in a Macro File can run other embedded macros using the RunMacro command Example Show Merlin at center RandomLine pearls The macro pearls can be embedded in this Macro File making
75. e or an embedded Macro When a change is detected Vox Proxy assigns two variables 1 amp excelChangeCell is assigned the cell reference of the cell changed 2 amp excelChangeValue is assigned the new value in the cell You may also use ReadExcel to assign the cell value into a user defined variable There is a difference between the data assigned to the amp excelChangeValue and the data assigned by the ReadExcel command ReadExcel always reads the text of the cell whereas amp excelChangeValue may receive a numeric value depending on the cell properties If you want the character to say the value it is recommended that you use ReadExcel rather than amp excelChangeValue Syntax onExcelChange RunMacro macro 60 Reference where macro is the name and optional path of a Script Macro Example In the slide script Show Paul at Bottom Left ShowExcel file amp pres mortgage xls at 70 70 sheet Sheet1 cell A1 size 40 40 onExcelChange RunMacro xlchange GestureLeft Say Go ahead and change something in the worksheet In the macro xlchange Set amp newvalue ReadExcel cell amp excelChangeCell Say You changed the value of cell amp excelChangeCell to amp newvalue PlayFlash Play a Macromedia Shockwave Flash movie in a window Note this uses and requires the Macromedia Flash Player Use the CloseFlash command to close the flash window Syntax PlayFlash file at X Y size align
76. e slide was visited This will cause problems with self narrated slide shows if you use the Click or WaitforClick commands in your slide script The only way to replay a slide exactly as it originally played is to navigate to it from the slide immediately before it either using the NextSlide command or in PowerPoint by automatically changing slides from the previous slide Consequently one way around the problem is to precede each slide to which the user might re visit with a dummy slide that just immediately goes to the next slide On each dummy slide you can just set the slide transition in PowerPoint to advance after zero seconds Alternatively you could use a VP script containing just the NextSlide command Under some circumstances you may wish to use variables with this navigation For example on each dummy slide you could assign the current slide number to a variable Set amp S amp SlideNumber Then to return to that slide from a subsequent slide you could use GotoSlide amp S Scripting Speech Synthetic speech technology using free TTS engines like those included with Vox Proxy will not fool people into thinking that a live person is talking On the other hand they can be amazingly effective and with a little extra effort you can at least achieve correct pronunciation and even convey reasonable variations in emphasis This creates a far more effective presentation Be sure to play the tutorial on speech It provides
77. ears in the middle of a script then you have inadvertently used a hide animation rather than a Hide command Vox Proxy always interprets Hide as a command unless it appears on the same line as another animation To avoid this problem always use Hide on a separate line by itself I see a small amber icon in the middle of my slide How do I get rid of it This icon is a new feature in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 called a Script anchor Normally used for web scripts It appears on any slide containing a Vox Proxy script This anchor must be visible for your scripts to work but you can simply drag it off the visible area of the slide to hide it 121 CD Prep Introduction The purpose of the CD Prep program is to create a CD R that will auto start on an end user s computer and run slide shows with Vox Proxy scripts without requiring the user to have first installed the Vox Proxy Player The CD Prep program creates a CD image folder on your hard drive that contains all of the files and folders to be placed on the CD You will use your CD burner software to copy those files and folders to the CD The Vox Proxy CD Prep program supports running PowerPoint presentations and or Vox Proxy Script Macros CDs created with CD Prep can be configured to run automatically from the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer bundled on the CD so that it will run the same whether the user has PowerPoint or not Please be aware that there are many issues involving the
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79. ent Start the default mail client Run mailto tomatkins voxproxy com Start the default browser on a web page Run http www voxproxy com Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Program Run command Help Program Notepad Parameters c program files vox proxy help license t Default Folder Press Help for information on invoking E mail Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer Help Insert Cancel RunMacro During the execution of the current script when it encounters a RunMacro command it loads and runs that macro When that macro is complete the remainder of the current script continues to run Note that this is functionally different than a GetMacro command which is essentially a cut and paste operation that takes place just before the current script is executed One of the key differences is that RunMacro allows local copies of Variables and Pronunciation Dictionary entries which may be different from those in the current script Syntax RunMacro file The specified macro file name is not case sensitive Examples Show Peedy at Right Center Say Merlin give us a pearl of wisdom RunMacro Merlin Pearl of Wisdom Peedy say Thank you Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 68 Reference Ill Macro Selection Macros break OK embed pearl of wisdom epearls Cancel Job losers Language test Media test merlin pearl of wisdom Set Defines a Variable Variable names must contai
80. ents Disk space In addition to your PowerPoint files at least 8MB plus the size of any characters you include plus any media or other files you use Recommended RAM 128MB CPU 500MHz P III or faster How the CD will Run When the end user inserts the CD in a drive and assuming that the user has not turned off the auto start feature of their drive in Windows the CD will autostart and perform the following operations First a window will be displayed giving the user an opportunity to continue or abort and quit the CD CD Startup This disk will start a presentation or offer a menu of presentations It will install any features it needs then run from the CD Windows NT 2000 and XP users may require administrator rights IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT NOTICES Uses Vox Proxy 2001 2004 Right Seat Software Inc Uses Microsoft Agent Technology 1996 2001 Microsoft Corporation Uses APL WIN 2000 APL2000 Inc Author OK TO CONTINUE Info 125 Vox Proxy Documentation At this point no installation information has been checked The user may display your optional Author and Info files where you can explain what s on the CD and provide contact information instructions or other materials If the user clicks No the program will terminate If the user clicks Yes Vox Proxy will start and run from the CD It will first check the user s computer for the following items install if necessary and copy certain files
81. er defined variables such as amp name Syntax character name Say wait nowait text Examples Show Merlin Say Good amp tod Let me show you my cyber magical powers Merlin Say Welcome to the show Say You can change slides now Go ahead to the next slide It s OK to change slides now Next slide I ll wait for you to change slides Wizard Say Something Speech Command Help m Speech Text Insert 8 Cancel Test Clear Undo C Wait C NoWwait Default Insert Speech Tags at Cursor Buttons will insert tags in test area above C in Script Normal Monotone Whisper Emphasis Reset Pause p millisec Volume aT 65535 Insert Volume Pitch PP 50 Insert Pitch Defaults Speed LI 150 Insert Speed SayWav Speak using an audio wav file The character essentially lip synchs the file No Text To Speech engine is used The balloon text will be displayed in the word balloon if visible If speech balloons are not displayed you may leave out the balloon text but the quote marks must remain For specifying the file path see file paths 37 Vox Proxy Documentation If you have AT amp T Natural Voices installed you can convert typed speech text into a wav file Click in the check box select the voice to use enter or browse for the file name to save press the Create wav file button to create the file The Test button will play the file before
82. es is a trademark of AT amp T Corporation Vox Proxy uses APL Win Copyright 1995 2003 APL2000 Inc 139 Glossary A Address context A set of TTS Engine pronunciation rules defined in Speech Normalization These rules include how to pronounce abbreviations in addresses phone numbers web addresses etc Animation Either a character animation or a PowerPoint slide animation also called a custom animation Balloon A cartoon like balloon or bubble that appears over a character s head and displays the text being spoken by that character C Character animation One of a list of discreet animations that a character can perform Each character has its own unique list of animations Click A Vox Proxy script command that sends a next build command to the active PowerPoint slide show The result is essentially the same as the user pressing the left mouse button The Click command is used to invoke the next custom animation on the slide Context A set of TTS Engine pronunciation rules defined in Speech Normalization These rules include how to pronounce abbreviations in addresses phone numbers web addresses etc See E mail Context and Address Context Custom animation Animation rules for a PowerPoint slide object Custom animations can be invoked from a script using the Click command E mail Context A set of TTS Engine pronunciation rules defined in Speech Normalization These rules include how to pronounce abbrevia
83. esentation that does not depend on the version of PowerPoint that the user may have Other Enhancements Folder Preferences Preferences has a new Folder Preferences tab allowing you to change the default folders for presentations macros media and characters One thing this allows you to do is keep files including characters on a network drive Internet resident Files You can now use the RunMacro or the RunSlideShow commands to run a script macro or presentation residing on the internet For example RunMacro http www voxproxy com samples job losers The Macro Menu has been enhanced to allow changing the macro folder displayed It shows the current macro folder noloop option Character animations now allow the option noloop This is needed if the character has a non looping animation whose name ends in ing Vox Proxy does not know whether any given character animation is looping or not so it assumes that any animation whose name ends with ing is a looping animation In order to prevent the looping animation from going on forever hanging your script it starts a timer that will stop character animations after a specified time If the animation is not actually looping it can stop your script unexpectedly The noloop option prevents the timer from starting For example many characters have animations called StartListening and StopListening These are intended for use with speech recognition and are not looping animations
84. et The second exception is for animations Multiple animations may appear on the same line For example Greet Pleased GestureLeft Multiple animations may appear on the same line Commas separating animation names are optional but at least one space is required For example Greet Pleased Announce Or Greet Pleased Announce Use the nowait parameter to force simultaneous animations among multiple characters Also see Wait Options This parameter may be used on the following commands Do GestureAt Hide Listen MoveTo Say Show Speak and Think Enter the parameter immediately after the command For example Hide nowait Moveto nowait Lower Right Say nowait What are you doing Speech Tags Speech Tags are special character strings inserted into the body of the speech text and are used to modify the pronunciation pitch tempo or interpretation rules called Text Normalization for the speech Specific TTS engines may or may not support speech tags The TruVoice TTS engine included with Vox Proxy supports the following speech tags TAG Syntax Var Description Example Emphasis emp amp e Emphasize a Say Vox Proxy is emp cool specific word Monotone Chr Monotone amp m Monotone Say Chr Monotone I am a robot Whisper Chr Whisper amp w Whisper Say Chr whisper I ll tell you a secret Normal Chr Normal amp n Normal Say Chr whisper I can whisper Chr Normal and speak normally in the same senten
85. fic line of speech fails but remaining lines speak correctly This is caused by another sound stepping on the line of speech The speech TTS engine will remain silent if another sound begins just prior to the speech and is not finished by the time the speech begins It is most often caused by another character performing an animation which has sound effects just prior to the failing line of speech If you re using the nowait parameter remove it and re test If not try reversing the order of the actions Animations A character s animation begins too soon This is almost always caused by a nowait parameter For example Show Peedy Show Paulli Peedy say Hello My name is Peedy Greer Paul Greet nowait Paul will bow before Peedy does in fact he will bow just when Peedy begins to speak In order to have Paul bow at the same time as Peedy place a wait command just above Peedy s Greet Peedy say Hello My name is Peedy wait Greet Paul Greet nowait Now Paul will wait for Peedy to stop speaking before he bows 119 Vox Proxy Documentation A specific animation does not work the remainder of the script works fine Check to see that you are using a valid animation command for the character Not all characters have the same list of animations Also some characters list of animations includes some which do not work they are simply ignored Test the animation using the Preview button on the Character Gallery If
86. g the speech for a subsequent character The command will remain in effect only until the character is closed Syntax SoundEffects on off Examples Show Paul at Left Center Show nowait Merlin at right center SoundEffects off Congratulate Paul say nowait Congratulations to Wizard Other Agent Commands Sound Effects Help Tum agent character sound effects on or off C Sound Effects OFF Insert Cancel Speak Same as Say except that the text is not filtered by the Pronunciation Dictionary The optional wait or nowait parameter will over ride the default behavior Syntax Speak wait nowait text Examples Speak Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country Wizard N A Think 41 Vox Proxy Documentation Display the specified text in a thinking word balloon but do not speak it Rules for use are the same as Say The optional wait or nowait parameter will over ride the default behavior Syntax Think wait nowait text Examples Think Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country Wizard Other Agent Commands Think command Help Type the text to be shown in the field below then click Insert C Wait C NoWait Default Wait Insert Cancel TTSEngine Select a specific speech engine for the selected character The clsid is a formatted string defined by the speech vendor that uniquely identifies the engine s mode
87. h are used to represent text within a phrase to be spoken by a character Some variables such as amp date are pre defined They are listed below Others may be user defined They are defined and edited in this menu item or by using the Set command in a script Names should consist of a single word without spaces When used in the script names must always begin with the character amp For examples see the Variables section under Script Commands There are three pages or tabs on the Variables form All Presentations These variables apply to all presentations and macros This Presentation These variables apply only to the active presentation or macro Any variables defined here will override those defined on the AII Presentations page Pre defined These variables are available in any presentation or macro They include time oriented variables day Y date amp month amp year amp time and amp tod time of day and several speech tags amp w whisper amp m monotone amp n normal amp r reset and amp e emphasize 100 LI UN Variables Wait preferences Script Writer Golden Colorado JCPL Good amp tod amp name c program filesvos proxy c program files vox proxysp c program files vox proxy c program files wox proxysh CAWINDOWS c c Ndocume 1 tom locals 1 CAWINDOWS rnronram files tren mens 101 Vox Proxy Documentation WJ Preferences Wait Commands
88. hed or at any time during the test click on the slide or press lt escape gt to end the test and return to the normal display Another way to test the script is to make sure that Vox Proxy is in Run mode you have clicked on Run Vox Proxy with Slide Shows Then simply click on PowerPoint s Slide Show View button Script Writer Tile Causes the Script Writer to tile or un tile with the main PowerPoint window The default is not tiled Samples Starts a PowerPoint presentation named samples ppt containing sample scripts that may be copied and pasted Wizard The Wizard button opens the main Script Wizard form All Vox Proxy script commands are available from the Script Wizard Wizard The Wizard toolbar contains many of the features of the Script Wizard but allows you to keep it visible in a floating toolbar Script Wiz EJ gt Show Say b Do gt Move gt Agent gt PowerPoint gt Misc Show Say Do Move Agent PowerPoint Misc Tips and Techniques Interacting with PowerPoint Vox Proxy slide scripts are automatically started as soon as the slide is displayed in a slide show There are several techniques you can use with PowerPoint commands to cause an interaction between the characters PowerPoint animations and the presenter Let s look at some examples Example 1 You want the active character to trigger a click or NextAnimation sometimes called next build o
89. her than PPT That file may then be played from the Vox Proxy Player software by simply opening the file It will automatically start PowerPoint and play the slide show Restore Restore the current script from its file copy This overlays the script currently displayed in the Script Edit window with the last saved version Page Setup Displays a dialog box allowing changes to margins headings and footings used in Print Print Print scripts Prints either macro or slide scripts depending on the Script Writer s page selector When printing slides allows selection of current slide range of slides or slides Fonts can be selected but are limited to available fixed pitch fonts Windows shortcut key is Control P Exit Closes the Script Writer Help menu Vox Proxy Help Displays this documentation file 103 Vox Proxy Documentation Tutorials Displays a menu of macros which run tutorial presentation slide shows WEB Support Displays several links which navigate to specified web sites such as Microsoft s PowerPoint home page Register Displays a registration form showing the software owner and serial number The Trialware version of Vox Proxy may be registered by entering the purchased software serial number here Download PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Links to the Microsoft download site for the free PowerPoint 2003 viewer Readme Displays the software readme file License Displays a copy of the software click
90. idly accessed during the presentation Files accessed from the CD drive can be slow to load after the drive stops spinning If you use media files copied here be sure to use the variable amp tempdir rather than amp media in your script 5 Other files Any ancillary files may be included here They will be placed in the other folder on the CD When selecting files you can drag and drop files displayed by the Browse button or from Windows Explorer lid CD Prep Wizard Menu1 File View Tools Help Select any additional presentation script macro media or other files which will be used on the CD Presentations and macros which will run directly off of the user menu were selected on the previous screen and need not be selected here You may drag and drop files from the Browse button or from Windows Explorer Script Macros c program files vox pro ysmacrossbreak vpm Browse Scan for files gt Delete Script Macros Any script macros OTHER than those called directly on the user menu For example if a script macro calls another macro the other macro should be included here Talk to me lt Back Next gt Cancel Characters Select the characters you will need on the CD When CD Prep scans your presentation file s it will automatically select all the characters it finds in your scripts You may select additional characters as desired Character files will be copied onto the user s hard drive in the W
91. indows Temp folder in order to speed up access during playback 131 Vox Proxy Documentation VP co Prep Wizard Menu1 File View Tools Help Select the characters that are needed on the CD by moving them from the list on the left to the list on the right Character Selection Chromedome Chuck Talk to me lt Back Next gt Cancel Languages The language page appears similar the the characters page shown above but lists all of the languages included with Vox Proxy Select the languages which are used in your scripts Languages determines the Text To Speech engines which must be installed on the user s computer Most characters require the U S English language by default Do not select any languages which you do not actually need because their installation slows down the CD startup Info File The Info file is an optional HTML RTF or text file which will be displayed when the user presses the CD Info button on the CD menu You must create this file in a text or html editor HTML or RTF offers nicer display formatting than plain text files For RTF or text you can create the file using Wordpad For HTML you may use any html editor If you use an HTML file you can include picture files or other hyperlinked HTML files Any such support files must either be in the same directory as the html file or in a sub directory You may un check the Display Info button field if you do not want to include an info button and y
92. ink GestureAt and Listen If you leave off exclude or include the list should be inclusive This changes the system Preferences in the file and will persist until they are changed back Syntax WaitCommands exclude list Examples WaitCommands Say Do Think Listen WaitCommands exclude Moveto Show WaitCommands include Moveto Show 43 Vox Proxy Documentation Wizard Other Agent Commands WaitCommands Help Select all desired wait commands then press Insert Insert Cancel General File References in Vox Proxy Several Vox Proxy commands require referencing a file The syntax of each command is important so please refer to the specific command for the correct syntax Directory paths however are consistent for all commands Paths can be implied or expressed Implied paths If a file name is specified without a path then the path is implied Depending upon the file type Vox Proxy will automatically look through a series of folders called search paths to find the file before it gives up See below for the search path of each file type recognized by Vox Proxy Expressed paths Expressed file paths may be specified either explicitly or with a variable An example of a file with an explicit path is C program files vox proxy media drumroll wav The same file expressed with a variable could be amp mediadirNdrumroll wav See below for a list of variables containing paths that are always available in Vo
93. int presentations without having to purchase Vox Proxy itself The Player software can be installed on any computers running on Windows 95 or newer Remember however that the Player is designed for people who do not have Vox Proxy Do not attempt to install it on a computer that already has Vox Proxy installed If the user does not have PowerPoint the Vox Proxy Player will run on the Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Viewer which is included with the VP Player When the Player runs it will attempt to start Microsoft PowerPoint If PowerPoint does not exist it will attempt to start the Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Viewer The PowerPoint viewer is bundled with the Player software but it requires Windows 98 SE or newer Limitations of the Player The Player software has two limitations compared with the full Vox Proxy software 1 Characters The CD version of the Player contains all characters delivered with Vox Proxy The downloadable version contains only the following six characters Paul Chuck Merlin Peedy Genie and Robby If you use any characters other than these you must deliver them to the end user separately The character files are composed of the character s name with the file extension ACS and are located in the folder C windows msagent chars for Windows 95 98 ME XP Or C WINNT msagent chars for Windows NT and 2000 Introduction Any needed character files other than those delivered in the VP Player should be saved in the co
94. ion P Show Character Help Select Character C Yes C No Default Show at location Buchut EH BH ER al E Show Balloons C Yes C No Default m Idle Animations C On C Off Default Sound Effects C Yes C No Default Character Size Default C Size E 1 m Language Default C JUS English Y m Voice Default Select Size Specifies the relative size of the active character N should be a number greater than zero A size of one 1 specifies the character s default size NOTE This command is functional but Insert Cancel obsolete with Version 2 Use the size N option in the Show command Syntax Size N Examples Show Merlin at 50 50 Size 2 Greet Wizard Other Agent Commands Character Size SoundEffects 40 Reference Temporarily turn on or off a the sound effects which are played by some of a character s animations If the word all appears after on or off it will apply to all characters which are visible at the time the command is encountered in the script Otherwise it applies only to the currently active character This over rides the default which is a preference item See Tools Preferences on the Script Writer and also see help for the SetPrefs command Sounds may also be turned on or off as part of the Show command See the Show command This command is useful in some situations to avoid suppressin
95. ion to be taken when the timer time elapses If release is specified you must also include hold yes If delete is specified the clock display will disappear when the timer fires Examples 52 DisplayClock DisplayClock at 50 25 style countdown size 12 timer 15 00 alarm c my music alarm wav bgcolor black fgcolor cyan hold no DisplayClock at 50 25 style clock hh mm ss am size 12 timer 15 00 alarm c my music alarm wav bgcolor black fgcolor cyan hold yes action release Reference Some of the clock appearance options are illustrated below Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 53 Vox Proxy Documentation WJ Display Clock Help Type 34 r Style r Center location Clock M show seconds 50 C Timer show am pm y Countdown timer Military z b Timer Turn on timer Time E Ter C Black Red C Green Cyan Gray C White Blue C Yellow Magenta Background Black C Red C Green Cyan Gray ed s C White Blue C Yellow Magenta Stop hold script while clock is visible Cancel Insert DualMonitor Turns on or off dual monitor support without changing the permanent dual monitor preference item It may be turned on and off within a script This command automatically offsets the X location of characters and forms by 100 It requires that the resolution of each monitor be set the same Syntax DualMonitor on off Exa
96. is only one tricky thing to be aware of when using nowait for speech Many animations are accompanied by sound effects These sounds can step on the speech of another character The general rule is that the speech engine will not allow two characters to have simultaneous sounds or speech And usually the first sound to be encountered will suppress any other character s sound that tries to play after it starts There are two ways around this when using speech in Vox Proxy One is to shut off animation sound effects This can be accomplished either on the Preference menu item or by using the SoundEffects off command in your script The other way is just to make sure that the speech starts BEFORE the animation sound effect Consider these two versions of the same script Show Merlin at right center Show nowait Paul at Center Merlin search Paul say nowait Hey Merlin What are you looking for Show Paul at Center Show nowait Merlin at right center Paul say Hey Merlin What are you looking for Merlin search nowait Merlin s search animation is accompanied by the sound of bells In the first version since Merlin begins his animation before Paul starts to speak the bells suppress Paul s speech In the second version Paul s speech starts first and the bells are suppressed Overlapping sounds are not a problem with silent animations nowait is often helpful in these cases to speed up processing Paul GestureRight Say Our fir
97. it self contained This technique can be used for jokes sayings or other expressions from which you want to play a single randomly selected line Pearls might contain say I ve gradually risen from lower class background to lower class foreground Marvin Cohen say Man can climb to the highest summits but he cannot dwell there long George Bernard Shaw say Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself and yearns for the impossible Eric Hoffer say Be nice to people on your way up because you ll meet them on your way down Wilson Mizner STONE In order to investigate Script Macros open the Macro Menu by clicking on the Macro tab of the Script Writer and look at the sample Macro Files included with Vox Proxy Test them from the Macro Menu by clicking on the Run button Test them from Windows by exiting from PowerPoint browsing to the folder program files Nvox proxy macros and opening one of the sample Macro Files such as Merlin pearl of wisdom The Macro Menu The Macro Menu is comprised of two tabs or pages Page 1 shows a list of Script Macro Files in a selected folder 25 Vox Proxy Documentation Mg Script Macros TE Tools Help Macro Files Embedded Macros Macro folder c program files vox proxy macros embed pearl of wisdom epearls1 Job losers Delete Language test edia test Merlin pearl of wisdom Haw pearls Peedy calls Merlin for a pearl Embed Peedy demos variables Player Welcome
98. it works there it will work in your script Also check that your spelling is correct Capitalization is not important but spelling is Performance When I run my slide show the animations and or speech are choppy and intermittent Either the computer is too slow has too little RAM or most likely you are running something else that is CPU intensive Both character animations and speech take considerable system resources so things like animated GIFs running on a slide can cause character animations and speech to be slow During my slide show the character nearly stops then sporadically makes some movement or sound In PowerPoint 2002 you must be sure that you have the feature called Show all scripts turned ON You can tell if it s on by the small amber icon called a script anchor that appears in the middle of any slides with scripts If you do NOT see that icon you must turn Show all scripts on Open PowerPoint help and in the answer wizard search for script anchor Click on Show or hide anchors on a web page and follow the instructions to add the Show all scripts item to your menu Then be sure it is turned on During my slide show the character nearly stops then sporadically makes some movement or sound In PowerPoint 2002 or newer you must be sure that you have the feature called Show all scripts turned ON You can tell if it S on by the small amber icon called a script anchor that appears in the middle of any
99. ith only a single character Its principal use is to speed up the pace of the presentation by allowing a character to perform an animation simultaneous with another character s animation or speech For example when you re showing two characters the second one doesn t begin to show until the first one is finished showing To show them both at the same time Show Paul at left center Show nowait Peedy at right center wait This option applies to commands in the same way that nowait does but if forces a wait for the previous character Since this is the normal default the only reason you should ever need to use wait is if you have changed the default setting from wait to nowait see wait preferences Wait command While nowait solves the problem of simultaneous actions If the previous character performs several consecutive animations or speech the nowait can cause the new character to act before you want it to For this reason you can use the Wait command by itself to hold the script at that point In this example we ll have Paul do his Explain animation say something and return to RestPose Then we ll have Merlin gesture right and speak We want Merlin to gesture while Paul is running RestPose NOT while Paul is speaking Show Merlin at right center Show nowait Paul at left center Explain Say Welcome to Vox Proxy Wait RestPose 47 Vox Proxy Documentation Merlin GestureRight nowait Say Thank you Paul Without the
100. ken text for example it should start with the Say command This command can be used with a macro of data to produce a random joke saying etc Syntax RandomLineFrom macro Examples RandomLineFrom Pearls Wizard Miscellaneous Commands L Macro Selection Seles Macros Cancel Carlin at Random Carlinisms clocktest correct RandomMacro Randomly select a script macro whose name begins with name Get and insert its script into the currently running script When using this command enter the name in quotes Syntax RandomMacro name Examples RandomMacro joke Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 65 Vox Proxy Documentation Random Macro command Help Randomly select and run a macro from those which Insert begin with the specified text Text Comcel ReadExcel This command reads a value from an Excel worksheet It is normally used with the Set command to assign the value to a variable The value is accessed by specifying the file name worksheet name and cell range Syntax Set amp variable ReadExcel file F sheet S cell C File is an Excel workbook XLS S is a valid worksheet name in the workbook C is a valid cell Examples Set amp Q ReadExcel file c tests questions xls sheet Sheetl cell B9 Assigns the contents of cell B9 of worksheet Sheet1 of the file c tests questions xls to the variable amp Q Wizard Miscellaneous Commands WJ Rea
101. l it Talk to me lt Back Finish Cancel Burning the CD After finishing the CD Prep process you will have a directory called the CD Image Folder containing all of the files and folders needed to create the auto starting CD Use your CD writer software to copy the entire contents of this folder including its sub folders to the CD R When done check the contents of the CD using Windows Explorer In the root directory of the CD you should see at least the following folders and files 135 Vox Proxy Documentation Mame agent info macros media other a presentations speech temp O viewer E aplwCo dll 8 apx20ocx dll E autorun inf 3 cdmenu ini vp adf Y vp exe vp ico p ini Vp WS 3 vpcd ini CD Diagnostics After creating the CD you can run a diagnostics check on it from the tools menu of CD Prep The results of the diagnostic check will look something like the following 136 CD Prep Ei CD Diagnostics 137 Copyrights and trademarks 2001 2004 Right Seat Software Inc Vox Proxy is a registered trademark of Right Seat Software Inc PowerPoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Microsoft Agent and the Microsoft Agent logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries The characters Genie Merlin Peedy and Robby copyright 1996 1998 Microsoft Corporation all rights reserved Natural Voic
102. l to IF amp count LE 10 Compares a numeric variable to a number or another numeric variable If the first is less than or equal to the second the script continues GT greater than IF amp count GT 10 Compares a numeric variable to a number or another numeric variable If the first is greater than the second the script continues GE greater than or equal to IF amp count GE 10 Compares a numeric variable to a number or another numeric variable If the first is greater than or equal to the second the script continues EQ equals IF amp count EQ 10 Compares a variable to a value or another variable If they are equal the script continues If the values are text EQ is the same as IS NE not equal IF amp count NE 10 Compares a variable to a value or another variable If they are not equal the script continues If the values are text NE is the same as ISNOT NOT not IF NOT amp count EQ 2 Not reverses the logic test that follows AND and IF amp Response EQ yes AND amp count LT 3 And combines logical tests each of which must be enclosed in parentheses Only if both tests are true does the script continue to execute OR or CIF amp Response EQ yes OR amp count LT 3 OR combines logical tests each of which must be enclosed in parentheses Only if either test is true the script continues to execute Examples Show Peedy at Center Say Would you like more detail Say Ple
103. license for Vox Proxy Speech Install TTS Languages Displays a menu of TTS engines in available languages Select a language to install the TTS engine and appropriate documentation The documentation for Speech Normalization for the selected language is saved as a Microsoft Word document in the speech folder program files vox proxy speech This documentation explains pronunciation issues such as numbers abbreviations and so on according to the selected speech context see Address Context or E mail Context TTS Help Displays a Help File containing Speech Normalization information for English See above for documentation in other languages This documentation explains pronunciation issues such as numbers abbreviations and so on according to the selected speech context Tips of the Day Displays the Tips form with a random tip which also allows you to turn on or off the tips feature About Vox Proxy Contains version copyright and registration information about the Vox Proxy software Insert menu Insert displays the Power Scripting Menu also available by right clicking in the edit window of the the 104 Script Writer In either case the menu is context sensitive to the position of the cursor in edit window The menu appears similar to the following Script Commands Script Writer Character commands Characters b EndShow Animations For Paul Other commands FirstSlide Variables k GoboSlid
104. lide animations do not reset themselves to the unplayed state when navigating with GotoSlide See the discussion on playing self narrated slides containing custom animations Syntax GotoSlide N Examples Balloons on size 14 font arial lines 5 Balloons off Wizard PowerPoint Commands 78 Reference Goto Slide Help C apl VoxProxy PPT demo ppt Y 1 Insert slide ID 256 Cancel Insert e wv LastSlide Go to the last slide in the presentation Syntax LastSlide Wizard PowerPoint Commands LastSlideViewed Go to the last slide which was actually viewed in the slide show Note that this may not be the same as the PreviousSlide Important note This command will not work when playing the slide show with the PowerPoint Viewer Syntax LastSlideViewed Wizard PowerPoint Commands Notes about navigating among slides in PowerPoint If you change the relative slide number of a slide by inserting or deleting slides the script will not change automatically You must manually update any GotoSlide command with the correct slide number If you re visit a slide that has custom animations on it PowerPoint will not start with the animations un played In other words the second time the slide is shown the animations will already be done and the first click command will just change slides There is one important exception that allows you to re set custom animations when you do a NextSlid
105. ll check the CD image folder you specify to see if it appears to have been created by PowerPoint s Package for CD feature and incorporate those files appropriately Single Presentation or Menu Specify here whether the CD will contain only a single presentation or multiple presentations For a single presentation select the presentation file here When the CD starts the slide show will automatically start and run When it is finished the program will terminate For multiple presentations you will create a menu which will be displayed to the user After each presentation is played the menu will reappear Menu Builder 129 Vox Proxy Documentation If the CD will contain multiple presentations this is where you build the menu which the user will see and which will control the files to be played VP co Prep Wizard Menu1 File View Tools Help Menu Item Enter text to appear on Menu Text NG the menu File c program files vox proxy presentationsMtuto Enter the presentation or macro file to be run for Description Introduction to Vox Proxy Takes about 11 mit this menu item Enter the description to be displayed on the user menu Add Cancel User Menu New First Script Vox Proxy Player Delete Variables Move Up Move Down Talk to me lt Back Next gt Cancel For each presentation on the menu you must specify three things 1 The Menu text what the user will see as the men
106. mples DualMonitor on Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 54 Reference I WJ DualMonitor command Help Turning dual monitor support ON will displace X values for characters and forms by 100 to the right It works correctly only if the resolution is the same for both monitors e Insert Cancel EndMacro End any currently running macro Close any characters which may be visible If the macro was started from a menu re display the menu Do not use EndMacro in a macro which will be called from another script either a slide script or another macro All executing scripts will be closed by this command NOTE this command is not normally necessary since Vox Proxy automatically closes any macro which is started from a user selected menu Syntax EndMacro Examples Balloons on size 14 font arial lines 5 Balloons off Wizard Miscellaneous Commands GetMacro Retrieves the script for the macro name and inserts it into the current script at this point This is essentially a cut and paste which takes place just before the current script begins to run Note that this is functionally different than a RunMacro command which actually runs the specified macro on the fly when it encounters the command during execution of the current script The specified macro name is not case sensitive Syntax GetMacro name Examples GetMacro Merlin pearl of wisdom Wizard 55 Vox Proxy Documentation
107. n width When the file plays it will scale all characters up or down to match the size at the authored resolution PointAt Causes a character to point in the direction of another character or a visible window For characters having Pointing animations it will point in 45 degree increments For others it will use gestures left right up and down Characters can point at other application windows as well as other characters CDPrep Enhancements Quick Prep If you have a single presentation file rather than a menu of multiple presentations and do not need info author files or changes to the standard copyright notices you can use a new feature called Quick Prep which will prepare everything you need for the CD in a single step Automatic File Scanning CD Prep will now scan through the scripts in your presentation file looking for files that you call including media macros other presentations etc It will automatically include those files on the CD and alter the scripts if necessary to change all paths to the appropriate file locations It also locates and includes any characters used in your scripts Optional Info and Author buttons The info and author buttons displayed on the dialog box shown when a CD starts are now optional PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Introduction You can specify that the CD prepared with CD Prep should always play on the PPT 2003 viewer even if the user has PowerPoint This provides a consistent pr
108. n agents are idle they play default animations in which they may appear bored and finally qo to sleep This allows you to turn off those idle animations Play Idle Animations Yes No C m Sound Effects When agent characters appear and move on the screen there may be sound effects to accompany those actions Those sound effects in some circumstances can interfere with another character s speech This preference allows you to turn off the sound effects Sound Effects on Yes No C Prompt for export to notes Prompt for export to file Display tips of the day Dual monitor display Idle Animations When characters are idle on the screen they randomly play a series of animations called idle animations As time goes on they appear bored and finally go to sleep This option allows you to turn these idle animations on or off Sound Effects Many animations including Show and Hide are accompanied by sounds Those sounds can sometimes interfere with the speech of another character if the animation is being played at the same time the other character is speaking This option allows you to turn those sound effects on or off Timeout This Preference allows you to set the maximum amount of time that any animation will play Its primary use is to prevent looping animations from running forever Looping animations will run until stopped in one of three ways a Stop command an Interrupt command or by timing out
109. n only alphanumeric characters case sensitive no spaces and no symbols except underline _ These variables will persist as long as the current PowerPoint session remains open and will disappear when closed Syntax Set 8ivarname value amp varname is any valid variable name Value is an alphanumeric or numeric string For value you may also use ReadExcel or ReadFile to assign values from an Excel worksheet or an ini style text file Examples Set amp name Tom Set amp place Orlando Set amp greet Good tod name Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Set command Help Wariable amp where Value Golder Colorado Assign a value to a variable The amp character will automatically be added to the beginning of the variable name Help Insert Cancel SetPrefs Set one or more preference items This sets the preferences that apply to all characters as the default when the character is shown It has the same effect as changing the corresponding item from Tools Preferences in the Script Writer The command takes effect when it is encountered in the script Also see help for the temporary commands IdleAnimations and SoundEffects 69 Vox Proxy Documentation Note that this change remains in effect for all future sessions of Vox Proxy If your need for these changes is temporary you should set the preferences back at the end of the script Syntax SetPrefs idle on off sound on off timeout T Option
110. n the slide A typical use for this is that the character is acting like the presenter and will bring up some bullets on the slide and talk about each Use the Click command in your script A Click command acts just like clicking the mouse during your presentation Be aware that you must set PowerPoint s Custom Animation for this object so that it is animated by a mouse click not automatic by time For example Show Paul at Left Center Point45 Cels Say Qur first topie wili Pee Example 2 You want the script to wait until you the presenter click to bring up the next animation Then the script should continue to run Use the WaitForClick command in your script Each WaitForClick command must have a companion slide object with a custom animation set to appear on mouse click Usually this object will be off of the visible area of the screen because its purpose is not visual but simply to hold the script until you click the mouse For example WaitForClick Show Paul at Left Center Say Wait just a minute Tom I have a question Example 3 You want to have a dialog with an on screen character Use the same technique as above to interact with characters Again you normally don t want visible PowerPoint animations for this purpose so for each WaitForClick command create an invisible companion slide object set to appear off screen on mouse click For this example create two simple autoshapes stars let s say and drag them
111. ndows sound recorder found in Start programs accessories entertainment Since the character s lips synch with the sound however it is important that you record with a very quiet background or the character s lips will react to any background noise Users of AT amp T Natural Voices can generate wav files directly from the AT amp T TTS engine in two ways 1 The SayWav wizard The wizard will allow you to specify a file name and generate the file from the speech text entered 2 Convert Speech to Wav Files feature on the Tools menu of the Script Writer This feature will convert all speech of a specified character throughout your presentation Vox Proxy Documentation and will modify each Say command in your script to use the newly created wav files This feature is especially important for distributing disks created with CDPrep since the AT amp T license does not permit distribution of the TTS engine itself Character Animation Characters animations are performed from a list of pre rendered movements Each character has its own list of available animations many of which are common The animations for any character may be previewed from the Character Gallery In addition any time a character is visible on the screen you may right click on the character and select Show list of animations from the menu UA Character Gallery File Tools Help Right click a character for more options ld Peedy s Animations a
112. nique portion of the window s caption text The text is case sensitive Syntax PointAt name Examples 1 Point at another character Show Merlin at Bottom Right Show Paul at Center PointAt Merlin Paul points to his lower left 135 degrees 2 Point at an Excel window Show Paul at Center ShowExcel file C apl VPtest xls at 75 25 size 50 50 cell A3 PointAt Excel Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Pomt t Character Help Select the character to point at C Wait C NoWait Default Wait Insert Cancel Say Speak the specified text Text may include various speech tags also see Speech All text is filtered by the Pronunciation Dictionary Variable names in the text are replaced by the variable s value The optional wait or nowait will over ride the default behavior If speech balloons are on the text will also appear in the balloon while it is spoken The character s name may be placed before the Say command to clarify who is speaking If the character s name is not specified the current active character will speak 36 Reference The style character or vertical bar is used to separate alternative phrases to be spoken The TTS will randomly choose to speak one of the phrases This may be useful in a macro which is repeated often in scripts It is common to use variables within lines of speech A common example would be the pre defined variable amp tod Time Of Day You may also use us
113. nished just press escape to end the slide show You may interrupt a tutorial while it is running by pressing escape to end the slide show You may run any tutorial directly from PowerPoint Open the tutorial in PowerPoint by browsing the folder Program Files Vox Proxy Presentations Turn Vox Proxy s Run Mode ON by clicking Vox Proxy Run Vox Proxy with slide shows Start the slide show Open the Script Writer Click on Vox Proxy Script Writer from the PowerPoint menu The Script Writer contains nearly all of the authoring features of Vox Proxy To start your first script click on the Wizard button then click on Show a new character Once you re familiar with using the Wizard you can quickly reach all of its features plus context sensitive help characters animations and others from the Power Scripting Menu by right clicking anywhere in the Script Writer s edit window Follow the Guide to your First Script It provides a step by step illustration for creating your first script in Vox Proxy PowerPoint menu Vox Proxy appears on PowerPoint s main menu as follows Vox Proxy Run Vox Proxy with Slide Shows Script Writer h Tutorials Help Vox Proxy Documentation Run Vox Proxy with Slide Shows This turns on Vox Proxy s Run Mode which will play Vox Proxy scripts when the slide show is viewed With Run Mode off the slide show will play without Vox Proxy scripts Script Writer This is the prima
114. nscaled Example Bitmap C my files picture bmp at 25 25 size 1 16 scale Bitmap c program files vox proxy media Clouds bmp at 50 50 scale size 1 4 Bitmap Clouds bmp at 50 50 scale size 1 4 Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Bitmap Help Bitmap File CMap os Prony S amplessClouds bmp Scaling C Tie Scaled C Unscaled Screen Size C Authored Size One quarter of Screen C Twice Authored Size C One half of Screen C Dne sixteenth of Screen Full Screen Insert Cancel CloseBitmap Close the display of a bitmap file Syntax CloseBitmap file Specify the name of the bitmap file to close in quotes 49 Vox Proxy Documentation Examples CloseBitmap c program files vox proxy media Clouds bmp CloseBitmap Clouds bmp Wizard Miscellaneous Commands L Close Bitmap Bitmaps Ec apl voxproxy samples clouds bmp Cancel CloseExcel Closes the Microsoft Excel window that was opened by the ShowExcel command Takes effect after the active character is finished whatever it is doing Syntax CloseExcel Wizard Miscellaneous Commands CloseFlash Closes the flash movie file that was displayed by the PlayFlash command Syntax CloseFlash file file should include the full path and file name Takes effect after the active character is finished whatever it is doing Examples CloseFlash c myfiles flash vphome swf Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 50 Reference
115. nto Character commands PowerPoint commands and Other commands Each script command selected will display the appropriate wizard Characters A list of available character names is displayed This is a context sensitive feature When you select a character if that character already appears in this script it will just insert the character name Otherwise it will bring up the Show Character form Variables This item displays a list of all variables that are currently defined along with their current values Animations This context sensitive item displays a list of all animations for the character active at the cursor position Speech tags Displays a list of all available speech tags such as emphasize whisper etc In addition the Power Scripting Menu offers two additional scripting features HELP for the script command on the line where the cursor appears TEST the current line of speech if it is a Say command Note that if you select text in the script before right clicking you will see the standard undo cut copy paste delete menu rather than the Power Scripting Menu Slide Tab 96 Script Writer The Slide tab displays in the script edit window the script text associated with the active PowerPoint slide When you select the Script tab you will see the active slide number displayed in the caption of the Script Writer dialog box The script text is actually saved as an invisible text box within the Powe
116. o test them To insert into script double click or select and click Insert Continue with any other animations that are consecutive Click Close or Insert amp Close when done GestureRight GestureUp GetAttention Get ttentionContinued Insert amp Close Get ttentionR etum Insert wv C Wai NoWait Default Wait 8 You will see the word Greet inserted in your script Once you learn some of these simple animation names you can just type them into the script rather than using the Script Wizard M Vox Proxy Script Slide 1 EBR File Edit View Insert Tools Help DEUGS BIBLE Sl Test b Tile gt Samples b Wizard Slide Macro Show Peedy at Center Greet 9 OK now let s have Peedy speak For now we re just going to type the word Say along with the text of what you want Peedy to say Later you can explore the Say Something button on the Script Wizard to test modifications to the speech such as speed pitch or emphasis M Vox Proxy Script Slide 1 EBR File Edit View Insert Tools Help Dus rera Test gt Tile P Samples gt Wizard Slide Macro Show Peedy at Center Greet Say Welcome to Tom s first scriptl 15 Vox Proxy Documentation 10 11 12 Just to be sure the script is saved in the presentation click on the save button the disk icon on the toolbar or click File Save We re ready for a test Click on the Test button Yo
117. of bookmarks in your script E Bookmark Selection Bookmarks Cancel If Else End IF evaluates a test statement for whether it is true or false If the statement is true the script immediately following it is run If false it is skipped Script which follows the optional ELSE command if any is just the reverse it runs only if the statement is false ELSE can also be written as OR ELSE An END command must follow each IF command in the script The statement evaluated is most often a test of the amp Response variable after the user has responded either to a Listen ListenFor or ListBox command Synonyms ORELSE ELSE Syntax IF test statement ELSE END The test statement normally uses one or more comparison functions to evaluate whether the statement is true or false Comparison functions available for use in an IF statement are 83 Vox Proxy Documentation IS IF amp Response IS yes Compares a variable to text or another variable If they are the same the script continues The comparison is not case sensitive ISNOT IF amp Response ISNOT yes Compares a variable to text or another variable If they are not the same the script continues The comparison is not case sensitive LT less than IF amp count LT 10 Compares a numeric variable to a number or another numeric variable If the first is less than the second the script continues LE less than or equa
118. off the visible slide For each of the autoshapes set their custom animation to appear on mouse click Here s your script WaitForClick Show Peedy at Center say Wait just a second Tom I have a question WaitForClick Say There s something about that last point I don t understand Say GUC a 113 Vox Proxy Documentation Here s how it runs You bring up the slide and talk your talk When you re ready for Peedy to appear you click the mouse An off screen slide object appears releasing the script Peedy flies in on the center of the slide and says Wait just a second Tom I have a question You say something like Hi Peedy What s the problem You click the mouse again The next off screen slide object appears releasing the script Peedy says There s something about that last point I don t understand Peedy waits You proceed to answer his question You can continue this back and forth if needed using the WaitForClick commands with their companion slide objects Navigating in PowerPoint If you would like the user to be able to re visit certain slides in your presentation PowerPoint presents us with some challenges If those slides contain objects with custom animations including simple bulleted text when the user views that slide and then later tries to return to it the custom animations will be shown as completed In other words the actions will not replay as they did the first time th
119. oice V wait nowait Options at location Location may be any combination of the words center upper lower left or right or two numbers for X and Y representing percentages of the screen size Numbers greater than 100 or less than zero are off screen locations Note an X value between 100 and 200 can be used to display on the second monitor of a dual monitor system wait or nowait Over rides the system preference size N size of character as a multiple of its original size For example size 2 means twice normal size dle on or off temporarily turn on or off the character s idle animations Ssoundsc on or off temporarily turn on or off the sound effects if any associated with the character s animations balloons on or off display or don t display word balloons for speech language L change the character s language to that specified The appropriate TTS engine must be installed VoicezV change the character s voice This is a simpler method to accomplish the same result as using the TTSEngine command For a list of available voices open the Script Wizard Show a New Character and click the Select button in the Voice frame Examples Show Merlin Show Merlin at 50 50 Show Merlin at Lower Left Show Paul at Center size 2 idle on sounds off balloons off Show Paul at Center Voice Mik Show Paul at Right Center Language Spanish Wizard Show a New Character 39 Vox Proxy Documentat
120. omatically If the user does not have PowerPoint it will launch and play in the PowerPoint Viewer The user may run a PPV file in any of the normal Windows methods Double click on the file name in Windows Explorer Right click on the file name and select Open or Slide Show From an attachment to an e mail select Open rather than Save or save the file and then run it from Windows Explorer For a PPV file saved on a web site single click on a link to the file The file will download and then automatically start running a Double click on a shortcut to the file You can create the PPV file in two ways 1 From the Script Writer File menu click Save Presentation for VP Player A duplicate copy of your presentation file will be created with the file extension PPV 2 In Windows Explorer make a copy of the PPT file and rename it with a file extension of ppy By opening a presentation in PowerPoint and manually starting the slide show Vox Proxy Documentation In this case the user must click on the Vox Proxy menu item Run Vox Proxy with Slide Shows before running the slide show This is the same as the normal procedure in the Vox Proxy software itself If the user has Windows 95 98 ME and is running PowerPoint 2002 from Office XP not Windows XP then the Vox Proxy menu is located on Windows Start program files Otherwise it is on the PowerPoint main menu Getting Started When PowerPoint starts it automa
121. ophone The result is placed into the amp Response variable where it may be evaluated using IF or Evaluate Items in the list are specified in quotes such as ListenFor First thing second thing etc Listenfor is used where you want to take different actions depending upon the user s selection It is an alternative to the ListBox command For example you may start different slide shows or branch to different slides within the current slide show Each item may consist of either just the text to appear in the list or as two items separated by the style character or vertical bar 1 The text to appear in the list 2 The text to be returned in the amp Response variable Syntax Balloons on off lines size fint name Examples Listenfor First thing one Second thing two In this example the user will see First thing and Second thing If he selects First thing the amp Response variable will be set to one Wizard Other Agent Commands Script Command ListenFor Help Enter words or phrases to listen for Add Delete Insert C Wait NoWait Default Wait Insert evaluation template Cancel 34 Reference MoveTo Move the character to a different position on the screen Location may be specified as either an X Y value pair horizontal vertical as a percent of screen 0 100 or as any logical combination of the words Upper Center Lower Left and Right For example at
122. or CD Prep here This program allows you to create self starting CDs containing your Vox Proxy PowerPoint presentations For detailed documentation about CD Prep see the separate CD Prep help file Diagnose 105 Vox Proxy Documentation Diagnose Slide Animations ll Diagnostics amp Troubleshooting Diagnose Slide Animations View Animation Pairs Troubleshooting Guide Use this diagnosis if you are using Click or w aitforClick commands in your script and the animations do not work correctly or the slide changes prematurely Paul will check your commands against the animation settings on the slide If there is a problem he will report the details After this diagnosis if the problem is still not apparent view the pairing of animations on the next page Diagnose View Animation Pairs ll Diagnostics amp Troubleshooting Diagnose Slide Animations View Animation Pairs Troubleshooting Guide This diagnostic tool will allow you to click on a Click or w aitforClick command in your script Paul will locate the shape or text on the slide which is paired with this command In other words which slide object will either appear Click or for which the script will wait w aitforClick If while using this tool you change the animation settings on the slide be sure to click the Refresh button to allow Paul to read your new settings Troubleshooting Guide ll Diagnostics amp Troubleshooting Diagn
123. ord file at X Y size readonly commandbars Options 1 file file name doc Default an empty document 2 at location as screen Default 50 50 Location is at the CENTER of the Word form 3 size X Y as screen Default 50 50 4 readonly If not specified read write unless commandbars are off then readonly 72 Reference 5 commandbars on or off Default on This includes the menu standard and formatting bars If commandbars are off the document will open readonly Examples ShowWord file c program files vox proxy sample doc at 25 25 size 50 50 commandbars off Wizard Miscellaneous Commands I ShowWord command Help Word Document File Browse Size and location Location Center X 50 i 50 Move on Slide Size W 50 H 50 Options Read only N Show menu and control bars Show Word Insert Cancel StartTimer Sets the start time for a new timer with the name name Once started the WaitFor command can be used to wait until this timer reaches a specific number of seconds Syntax StartTimer name Examples StartTimer MyTimer Waitfor MyTimer 0 32 Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 73 Vox Proxy Documentation ug Script Command StartTimer Help Timer Name M Time This command will create a new timer using the specified name and start it running The WaitFor command may be used to pause the script until a specified number of seconds
124. ose Slide Animations View Animation Pairs Troubleshooting Guide Display the troubleshooting quide in the documentation This covers a range of topics related primarily to problems with both the speech and animation of characters in your script These topics generally apply to Script Macros as well as Slide Scripts 106 Script Writer Export to Notes This option will copy all slide scripts into PowerPoint s Notes for each slide The purpose for this option is to allow you to print both slides and scripts together Be aware however that in PowerPoint the print program will truncate any notes that will not fit on the same page as the slide For longer scripts we suggest that you use PowerPoint s Send to feature to send slides and notes to Microsoft Word Word will print both slides and notes regardless of the length of the notes Export to File This export option will copy all slide scripts into a file with the same name and in the same location as the presentation file but with a file extension of VPS Vox Proxy Script The VPS file is used to play slide shows under PowerPoint 97 or the PowerPoint Viewer PowerPoint Animation Diagnostics The diagnostic dialog box provides two diagnostic tools and a link to the troubleshooting section of this documentation Diagnose Slide Animations Use this option if you are having trouble using Click or WaitForClick commands Paul will analyze your script and compare it wi
125. ou may change the caption that will appear on the button After specifying the files you can see exactly what the user will see by clicking on the Info button 132 CD Prep lid co Prep Wizard Menu1 File View Tools Help CD INFORMATION You may supply a file containing information about the contents of your CD The user will be able to display this information by pressing an Info button on the menu of available presentations This file is intended to be an HTML file but may also be an RTF or text file Provide the name of that file in the Info file field If the Info file is in HTML and contains graphic images or other linked files be sure to include those files in the support files list below IV Display Info button Caption Info Info file C APLWVoxProxy InfoFiles cddinfo htm Browse Support C amp PLSVoxProsyNInfoFilesNvplogo with tom JPG Delete To see what the user will see click here Info Sample Talk to me lt Back Next gt Cancel Author File You may designate a file similar to the Info file described above for the purpose of identifying the author s of your presentations Like the Info file this can be an HTML RTF or text file CD Startup Message and Copyright When the CD auto starts it displays a dialog box to the user allowing him her to continue with the autostart or not Copyright messages are displayed on this screen which appears similar to the following
126. ox Open Voice Commands Window Hide Stop Stop All Go away Close who am I Character Description am your Read text from the clipboard Peedy for short and fond Migs or short and very fond c RE ds Don t call me bird brain Describe Object Copyright 1996 1998 Microsoft I Pearlof wisdom Link to the Web Site for Pi ves No Show List of Animations Insert Show Command Insert Moveto Command w Properties With many animations a character either gestures or looks in a certain direction and then holds that state for a period of seconds or until another animation is performed Most of the time characters can speak after it has moved to its animated state For example with most characters you can say GestureLeft Say Look at this picture 10 Introduction The character will speak while gesturing Characters cannot speak while they are in the process of moving during an animation However if you have two or more visible characters one character can speak while the other is performing an animation See the discussion of the nowait option You can exploit this technique to speed up the pace of speech and animations in a script Example Show Paul at left center Show Peedy at right center Paul Say nowait I d like to introduce you to my friend Peedy Because of the nowait option after Say Paul will speak while Peedy is in the process of appearing Show Animations When you Show a ch
127. oxy s standard characters does not come pre installed in Windows The setup file for TruVoice is tv enua exe For other languages the setup files begin with Istts and agtx 4 Speech Recognition Engine Installs only if you need it according to your setup If installed the setup file is actcnc exe 5 Character files copies onto the user s hard drive any character files which you have selected in your setup These files are identified by the file extension ACS and are copied into the folder windows msagent chars for Windows 95 98 and ME or WINNT msagent chars for Windows NT 2000 and XP Vox Proxy will start PowerPoint and display your menu of presentations or if you have configured it for only a single presentation open your presentation file from the CD and start the slide show A sample menu is illustrated here 126 CD Prep ll CD Contents Presentations Introduction First Script Vox Proxy Player Description tutorial on variables in Vox Proxy Includes a discussion of pre defined built in as well as user defined variables When the presentation is complete Vox Proxy will return to your presentation menu PowerPoint will remain open on the end user s computer If you have specified only a single presentation there will be no menu and the program will terminate when the slide show is ended If the same user either reruns the CD or runs other CDs from you in the future they will star
128. p var file is the full path and name of an ini style text file S is a valid section in the file K is a valid key value is either a constant or the name of an existing variable Examples You are keeping count of the number of incorrect answers to a question in the variable amp Count and wish to write the value into the history section of the file c tests questions txt WriteFile file c tests questions txt section history key wrong value amp Count Wizard Miscellaneous Commands 76 Reference TP Write File Help File c tests questions txt Browse Section history Key wrong Value amp Cdnt Display Insert Cancel PowerPoint commands Click Send a mouse click to PowerPoint to start the next custom animation on the slide If the slide does not contain another custom animation it will cause PowerPoint to change slides This command is used in self narrated slides or slide shows to control the custom animations on the slide It is important the custom animation be set in PowerPoint to start on click and that timings are not used in PowerPoint to run the slide show For self narrated slides follow these rules In PowerPoint Custom Animation Start on click not with previous or after previous inthe timing option set to start on click and not after a specified time In PowerPoint Slide Show Set up show check the box to advance slides manually Do not use timings Make
129. pices cates ee eeae see 82 BOOK Marlex a A A os 82 COTA A a AAE E de 82 A A O A OT sha are cc 83 Select CdSe ns ElSe ss EROS rta a a a ld iaeehad 84 Variables iii oral S 85 Table Of Contents federale 91 Script razor 91 Character Commands es ior ce eid p Reve Te qu o Rt E rp a ties hana hs tedden weeds 91 Miscellaneous Commands tcn sree itn mean perna Enea reas a Regan dava sven EY ka a Ewa sends 92 PowerPoint Commands scies inesse ces avv ero ERA Ye REX qui UR MR A ERE vied a aA 93 Programming Commands else eser A seve gra eua nra ki 94 lenem acie rmm 95 Script Writer FORM ER IMEEM 95 Script Edit WindOW iier ea dies e as 95 Power Scripting Men A A A aa 96 Slide Tab is ii A A A A eda eee 96 Macro Tibi A Ca Tm 97 MANU Si A A A A A odes ae ted eae Pe 97 TO iia AA AAA A AAA sens et 97 File 1OCAtION Preferences miii a a eaa a de duet Raga ada 97 Miscellaneous Preferentes 98 POE ENCON AAA VE V Re Ue cde sx Cus ru ew T dew vant on 98 PFONUNGIATION aa 99 Variables Maint nanCe es i iov errore O 100 Wait prefer ii i roa e Ren da cedar daret ua desea ase Debet Ea echa rarae ra dada ade 101 Edit mentuz ir eru DM II neal ch ean ca REI a eden 102 FILS MOM bes ooo A D RU RD ERU AIRE Ure CU NREK EIQUE E E UM SEE CORE EIS 103 usur EE 103 TSO BGI SM RE TE LC IU DECIDE UE sas 104 TOO MENU REEL TE 105 View Meninas Ehre RS OE EE ER FERRRPISNP situs re FARA A TEFRRRF E FETA n A TRE 107 TOOID AMS sc d PLE 109 Speech TOO
130. ppen when the script runs but it can result in interactions that may appear slow and stilted Vox Proxy has several tools to help you override these defaults and to create more effective and interesting interactions One of these is the parameter nowait which can be used to override the wait default on individual lines of speech or actions 1 Make multiple characters appear and hide simultaneously This is easily accomplished using the nowait parameter For example Show Paul at left center Show nowait Peedy at Center Show nowait Merlin at right center Hiding characters simultaneously is the same except for one thing It is a good policy to place a wait in the script just before the first character hides Otherwise the nowait could cause the second and any additional characters to hide too soon previous script lines Paul say Bye bye Wait Paul hide Peedy hide nowait Merlin hide nowait 116 Tips and Techniques Without the Wait Peedy and Merlin would hide while Paul is still speaking Another trick to watch for is that some characters will take longer than others to hide If your slide contains a NextSlide command immediately after several characters hide you should make the character with the longest hide animation hide last Otherwise the slide change will occur before the characters are fully hidden and they can re appear on the following slide Let a character start speaking while another is moving There
131. pt The toolbar appears similar to the following Speech Wizard X gt Emphasize p Start Monotone gt Start Whisper gt Start Normal gt Reset to defaults p Address Context gt E mail Context g Test speech Emphasize Insert the speech tag emp at the cursor position in the script Emphasize the next word only Monotone Insert the speech tag Chr Monotone at the cursor position in the script Monotone begins at this point and ends at the end of the current line or when either the Normal or Reset to Defauts tag is encountered Whisper Insert the speech tag Chr Whisper at the cursor position in the script See Monotone Normal Insert the speech tag Chr Normal at the cursor position in the script See Monotone Reset to Defaults Insert the speech tag Rst at the cursor position in the script Address Context Insert the speech tag Ctx Address at the cursor position in the script Any speech on the line following this tag will be pronounced using Address context Script Writer See the Speech Normalization documentation in the speech folder or on the menu Help Speech for the appropriate language E mail Context Insert the speech tag Ctx E mail at the cursor position in the script Any speech on the line following this tag will be pronounced using E mail context See the Speech Normalization documentation in the speech folder or on the menu Help Speech for the appropriate
132. r Show at location EH EH BB EH EH HR EA BB Ba Wait r Show Balloons C Yes C No C Yes C No Default Default E Idle Animations r Sound Effects On Off C Yes C No Default Default r Character Size r Language Voice Default Default Default Inset C Size E E us English y Select Cancel Click the Insert button For this illustration we are leaving all of the defaults alone For example if you don t want to display speech balloons when the character talks just check the No option under Speech Balloons on the Wizard form above before clicking Insert To show the character at a different location either click one of the grid location buttons or the mouse button to drag and drop the character on the slide You will see the following line of script inserted into your Script Writer s edit window UJ Vox Proxy Script Slide 1 PIE File Edit View Insert Tools Help Ose BIAIZXZ Fal Test p Tie gt Samples gt Wizard Slide Macro P Peedy at Center Now let s have Peedy take a bow Click Wizard then click Peedy Do Something Peedy will appear along with a drop down list showing all of Peedy s animations Notice that as you scroll through this list Peedy will demonstrate each animation for you Scroll to Greet and click the Insert and Close button Introduction Animations for Peedy Help Browse animations t
133. r to determine how the TTS engine will pronounce it Many other tools are available to work with pronunciation See individual descriptions for the Power Scripting Menu and the Speech Toolbar Using speech tags you can emphasize a specific word or change the character of speech whisper and monotone Also on the Speech Toolbar are Context buttons called address and E mail For U S English these buttons are the same Context primarily affects the way the engine speaks numbers punctuation and abbreviations Web addresses for example require use of the context tag In order to review these pronunciation rules in detail see Help Speech TTS Help on the Script Writer menu Additional tools are available in the Script Wizard s Say Something button There you can vary the speed of speaking as well as its pitch A couple of other tips that may be somewhat obscure 115 Vox Proxy Documentation The Speak command works exactly like Say except that it bypasses the Pronunciation Dictionary If you want to illustrate a mispronounced phrase for example you might use the same line of text with both commands Say C est la vie senor Peedy We have no rellenos Speak C est la vie senor Peedy We have no rellenos The vertical bar character also called style is used to separate alternative phrases to be spoken The TTS engine will randomly choose to speak only one of the phases Suppose you have a simple macro for example
134. rPoint file When you change slides in PowerPoint the script text is automatically saved and the script for the new slide is displayed If you move or copy slides the script will be moved or copied with the slide While on the Slide tab the save button will save the script within the presentation file The presentation file must be saved within PowerPoint to retain the script before you close the file or the PowerPoint window Macro Tab The Macro tab displays in the script edit window the script text associated with the selected Script Macro When you select the Macro tab you will see the macro name displayed in the caption of the Script Writer dialog box Pressing the Macro Tab also opens the Macro Menu On this menu script macro files may be open edited run or embedded into a presentation file or other macro file Menus Tools File location preferences I Preferences Wait Commands File Locations Timeout Language Mise File Types location lp Media files c program files vox proxy media Macro files c program files vox proxy macros Presentation files c program files vox proxy presentations Character files C AWINDOW S msagent chars Modify 97 Vox Proxy Documentation Miscellaneous preferences 1d Preferences Wait Commands File Locations Timeout Language Iv Prompt for Export to Notes V Prompt for Export to File Display Tips of the Day Dual Monitor display Idle Animations Whe
135. riteShapeText shape Rectangle 1 position 1 text amp name Wizard 81 Vox Proxy Documentation PowerPoint Commands ll WriteSha pe Text command Help Write text to a slide object Click in a text object at the position where the text should be inserted Text object Rectangle 2 Position DN Text to be inserted Insert Cancel Programming commands BookMark A Bookmark is a single word which creates a place holder in the script at this point The name must consist only of alphanumeric characters no spaces no symbols The only purpose for a bookmark is to branch to it using the GOTO command Syntax Bookmark name Examples See Script Programming Examples Wizard Miscellaneous Commands I Bookmark Help Bookmark Name End used Bookmarks are place markers which can be branched to using the Goto command Use only alphanumeric characters no spaces or symbols Insert Cancel GoTo Goto is used to branch to a bookmark in the script It is most often used in evaluating the user s response to a ListBox or ListenFor command 82 Reference Syntax Goto bookmark Example Bookmark Start ListenFor yes no SELECT amp Response CASE yes say You said yes CASE no say You said no ELSE say Please try again say I am only listening for yes or no COMMONS tar END Wizard Miscellaneous Commands The GOTO wizard will prompt you with a list
136. rks whether or not you use Quick Prep Optional Info and Author buttons The info and author buttons displayed on the dialog box shown when a CD starts are now optional PowerPoint 2003 Viewer 123 Vox Proxy Documentation You can specify that the CD prepared with CD Prep should always play on the PPT 2003 viewer even if the user has PowerPoint This provides a consistent presentation that does not depend on the version of PowerPoint that the user may have PowerPoint Package for CD If you use the new Package for CD feature in PowerPoint 2003 and specify that folder as your CD Image folder CD Prep will automatically re configure the files for use with Vox Proxy Presentation Guidelines When preparing a presentation and Vox Proxy scripts for delivery on a CD it is very important that any files used in the presentation such as media files will be locatable on the CD This generally means that you cannot hard code the location the directory path of any files because you do not know what the end user s CD drive letter will be CD Prep will automatically locate any hard coded paths in your script to the appropriate variables However in the event that you want to locate files in CD folders other than those assumed in CD Prep Vox Proxy provides a number of variables for this purpose amp DiskDrive The drive where the CD is playing Example D amp folder The folder where your Vox Proxy program files are locate
137. rresponding folder on the end user s computer 2 TTS Engines The Player comes only with the US English Tru voice speech engine If you intend to use any other language or TTS engine you must install it on the end user s computer The appropriate files are located in your computer in the folder C program files vox proxy speech Note however that the optional AT amp T Natural Voices TTS engine cannot be distributed to others and is not included in the Vox Proxy Player Therefore you should not use Natural Voices within presentations that are to be played on the Vox Proxy Player Installing the Player The end user must install the VP Player on his her computer before playing presentations enhanced with Vox Proxy There are two sources for the VP Player software and they are installed differently Downloadable from www voxproxy com downloads vpplayer exe Download the file and save it anywhere on the end user s computer Then run the file to begin the installation The VP Player CD delivered with Vox Proxy You may duplicate this CD as needed Insert the CD in the end user s computer to start the installation Using the Player The player may be used in any of several ways By running a VP Player presentation file A VP Player presentation file is a copy of the PowerPoint file with the file extension PPV rather than PPT or PPS Windows will recognize this as a Vox Proxy enhanced presentation and run the Player aut
138. ry s editor All Presentations These items apply to all presentations and macros This Presentation These items apply only to the active presentation or macro Any words or phrases defined here will override those defined on the All Presentations page One Time Insertion These words or phrases are inserted directly into the script at the current cursor position as one time map commands Actually all Pronunciation Dictionary entries end up as map commands when they are actually spoken by the speech engine but you only see those entered as one time insertions 99 Vox Proxy Documentation ll Pronunciation Dictionary All Presentations This Presentation One Time Insertion Written fe ti Test Spoken oshe a Test New Delete Save Restore AutoShape auto shape c est la vie se la vee carpe diem carpay diem Champs Elysee shonzay lee zay D Artagnon Dartanyon et tu Brute et tu brutay Gore Vidal Gore Vee dahl Mao Tse Tung Mowwe Tsay Tung Marseilles Mar say Merci beaucoup Mairseebo coo Global Speech Substitutions In order to correct for difficult pronunciations you may substitute the Spoken phrase for the written phrase The written phrase appears in your script and in balloons The Spoken phrase is used by the speech engine These global substitutions will apply to all scripts in all presentations They are NOT case sensitive Variables Maintenance Variables are items whic
139. ry authoring tool for Vox Proxy scripts It contains all of the script writing wizards tools and access to Script Macros as well as PowerPoint slide scripts Tutorials Each tutorial is simply a PowerPoint presentation wherein the characters explain the basics of how to use Vox Proxy The tutorial files reside in the folder program files vox proxy presentations As a useful exercise you may open each tutorial and use the Script Writer to examine its scripts Help The online help file for Vox Proxy Script Basics Scripts are simply a list of text commands describing the actions and speech that you want performed by a character All of the commands in a script can be entered using drop down menus from the Vox Proxy Script Wizard Only the speech text itself must be entered from the keyboard Here is a simple Vox Proxy Script Show Peedy at center Greet Say I hope you enjoy the show Hide Scripts can be saved in three ways With PowerPoint slides In text files called Script Macros Embedded in either PowerPoint presentation files or in Script Macros PowerPoint Slide Scripts PowerPoint scripts are kept in the presentation file itself in what may be thought of as a hidden text box in each slide The script text box can be edited only using the Script Writer Each slide in the presentation has its own script Characters shown from the script in a particular slide will remain on the screen until explicitly hidden
140. s idle on or off turns idle animations on or off sound on or off turns sound effects associated with various animations on or off timeout T sets the time in seconds after which known looping animations will be stopped Examples SetPrefs idle off sounds off timeout 15 Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Help Insert Cancel ShowExcel Display an Excel worksheet in a window Use the Wizard form to resize and drag and drop the Excel window on the slide The file name can refer to a file on the web If you leave off the file option it will display a new blank worksheet A timer will start automatically when the Excel window opens You may access the timer using ExcelTime with the WaitFor command Use the CloseExcel command to close the Excel window Syntax ShowExcel file sheet cell at X Y size readonly displayoptions Options The option names are not case sensitive 1 file file name xls Default an empty sheet 2 sheet sheet name Default Sheet1 70 Reference 3 cell cell reference to activate Default A1 4 at location as screen Default 50 50 Location is at the CENTER of the Excel form 5 size X Y as screen 906 Default 50 50 6 readonly If not specified read write unless commandbars are off then readonly The following options specify window display options for the Excel window The options for each are on or off 7 FormulaBar on off 8 MenuBar on off 9 Stan
141. selectable pages with tabs 1 The SLIDE tab If a presentation is open this page contains the script for the active slide 2 The MACRO tab This page displays the text of the active macro Macros can be opened either using the OPEN toolbar button the File Open menu item or by selecting a macro from the Macro Menu The 95 Vox Proxy Documentation Macro Menu is opened automatically when the Macro page is selected See Running Script Macros The easiest way to get start writing scripts is to play the tutorial Your First Script It is often helpful to examine existing scripts Once the tutorial is finished for example just open the Script Writer and look at the scripts on each slide When you are ready to write you own start by opening the Script Wizard Just click on the Wizard button on the toolbar Power Scripting Menu As a powerful shortcut to inserting commands into your script you may right click at any point in the script edit window A context sensitive cascading menu called the Power Scripting Menu will appear Script Commands Character commands Characters k PowerPoint commands EndShow Animations For Paul Other commands Firstslide Variables k GoboSlide Speech Tags k LastSlide Help For command Say LastSlideViewed Test speech Sua PreviousSlide RunslideShow WaitforcClick The Power Scripting Menu allows you to insert into your script any of the following Script Commands This item cascades i
142. some good illustrations using the tools in Vox Proxy 114 Tips and Techniques The most convenient tool for scripting speech in Vox Proxy is the Speech Toolbar Find it in the View Toolbars menu Using this toolbar you can place the cursor on any line of speech in your script and press the Test Speech button to see how it sounds Punctuation in speech affects both timing and emphasis Commas semicolons and periods cause a pause in the speech and slightly affect the pronunciation of the immediately preceding word A question mark also affects the emphasis of the preceding word An exclamation point can affect the pronunciation of an entire sentence Using the Test Speech button experiment with the sound of each sentence Methods for changing pronunciation and emphasis in speech will depend on whether you are displaying the speech in a speech balloon If you are not then you can be free to use incorrect punctuation or even spelling in order to adjust the sound of the speech With speech balloons you can still use variations in punctuation and spelling but you will need Vox Proxy s Pronunciation Dictionary in order to achieve variations in pronunciation while preserving correct spelling and punctuation Use the Pronunciation Dictionary in the following ways For foreign language words or commonly used made up words that are consistently mispronounced by the TTS engine enter them on the All Presentations page We have included
143. st item of business is blah blah Wait BestPose Merlin GestureLeft nowait Say And second we want to talk about blah blah It s a good idea to make Paul return to his rest pose but we don t want Merlin to wait until Paul is resting before he starts his own gesture so we use the nowait parameter The reason for the Wait command above is that it tells Merlin not to begin gesturing until Paul has finished speaking 117 Troubleshooting Character Behavior Speech I have no speech at all characters lips move but they do not speak The most likely problem is that your sound system is turned down or off Test this by seeing if you can play a wav file From Windows Explorer go to program files Vox Proxy media Double click on the file CLAP WAV Do you hear sound If not then your sound system is not playing sounds Check the Mute button on the Windows volume control check that the volume is not all the way down check that your speakers are properly connected If you do hear sound re check the speech If you still do not hear speech try manually installing the speech TTS engine In Windows Explorer go to program files Vox Proxy speech Double click on the file TV_ENUA EXE This will re install the default US English speech engine If the speech still does not work make sure that the problem is not an isolated single line of speech Test the character with several consecutive lines of speech A speci
144. t much faster because the speech files will have already been installed Administrative Rights and other XP Issues On systems where it is necessary to install any speech components as described in How the CD will run the user must have administrator rights to permit those installations On Windows 95 98 and ME those rights are always available but on NT 2000 and XP they may or may not be In labeling your CD and in any user documentation included with your CD you should make it clear that the user should have administrator rights in order to run the CD Note that these installations are required only the first time the CD is played Any subsequent playing can be done without administrator rights Subsequent CDs which you send out will also not require administrative rights unless you include a TTS engine not included on a previous CD Windows XP contains a version of the Microsoft speech API SAPI 5 which is not backward compatible and is not compatible with the speech supported by Microsoft Agent SAPI 4 Vox Proxy s CD Prep program will automatically install SAPI 4 Windows will support both versions concurrently without conflict If users report that your presentations run and the characters appear but do not speak you should advise them to reboot and reinsert the CD The CD Prep Wizard Introduction The CD Prep Wizard will guide you through each step of the process needed to create a CD Image Folder containing all of the
145. tag Chr Normal at the cursor position in the script See Monotone 109 Vox Proxy Documentation Reset to Defaults Insert the speech tag Rst at the cursor position in the script Address Context Insert the speech tag Ctx Address at the cursor position in the script Any speech on the line following this tag will be pronounced using Address context See the Speech Normalization documentation in the speech folder or on the menu Help Speech for the appropriate language E mail Context Insert the speech tag Ctx E mail at the cursor position in the script Any speech on the line following this tag will be pronounced using E mail context See the Speech Normalization documentation in the speech folder or on the menu Help Speech for the appropriate language Test Speech Test the line of speech where the cursor is in the script Use the character which is current at that point in the script Prompt if the character is not visible Standard Toolbar The Standard Toolbar contains buttons for New Open Save Print Undo Copy Paste Tools Toolbar The Tools toolbar is visible on the Script Writer by default It can be moved to other locations on the Script Writer form Individual items on the Tools toolbar are 110 Test For slide scripts this button allows you to test the script on the current slide The active slide will be displayed as a full screen slide show and the script will run When finis
146. th the Custom Animation settings on the slide reporting any problems he may detect View Animation Pairs This diagnostic tool will allow you to click on a Click or WaitForClick command in your script Paul will locate the shape or text on the slide which is paired with this command In other words which slide object will either appear Click or for which the script will wait WaitForClick Convert Speech to WAV Files View Menu Tile with PowerPoint Tiles or un tiles the Script Writer form with the PowerPoint window Tiling occurs on the left side of PowerPoint Slide Script Switches the Script Edit window s active page to the slide page Macro Script Switches the Script Edit window s active page to the macro page and activates the Macro Menu a Tool Bars Standard a Tools Wizard This toolbar contains all of the features of the Script Wizard in a compact floating toolbar For detailed documentation of Script Wizard features see Script Wizard The Wizard toolbar appears similar to the following 107 Vox Proxy Documentation 108 Script Wiz X gt Show p Say b Do gt Move gt Agent gt PowerPoint gt Misc Speech This toolbar contains many of the features of the Speech panel from the Script Wizard When each button is pressed it inserts the appropriate speech tag at the cursor position in the script The Test button is convenient for testing that line of speech in the scri
147. tically installs the Vox Proxy menu El Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation1 Vox Proxy Run Vox Proxy with Slide Shows X Script Writer Tutorials Help If you are running from PowerPoint 2002 or 2003 and your computer is operating with Windows 95 98 or ME PowerPoint requires that you start Vox Proxy from Windows Start Programs Vox Proxy Menu After doing so you will see a small floating menu which will appear on top of PowerPoint This menu is exactly the same as the Vox Proxy menu above and all of the features of Vox Proxy work in the same way Run the Tutorials The simplest way to start getting familiar with Vox Proxy is to run one or more of the tutorials Click on Vox Proxy Click on Tutorials You will see a list of available tutorials and other presentations similar to the following M4 Tutorials TB 4 variables 5 looping animations Demo Vox proxy player We suggest that you run the tutorials in the following order Introduction Introduction First Script Speech Variables Looping Animation The Vox Proxy Player tutorial explains the player version of VP These are actually simple macros that call PowerPoint presentations located in Vox Proxy s Presentations folder Select a tutorial such as Introduction to Vox Proxy and click Run or simply double click your selected tutorial This will start the presentation as a full screen slide show When the tutorial is fi
148. ting Show Character Command Removing a Character Placing a Character on a Slide Downloading Characters from the WEB Close All 19 Vox Proxy Documentation Press the Close All button to close all visible characters Any time characters are visible there are two other ways to close them Press the Close Characters button on the Script Writer Right click on a character and select Stop Playing If a script is playing it will stop and all characters will be closed Downloading Characters Many Microsoft Agent characters are available on the WEB Once you download and install the character s file it will be displayed in the Character Gallery For agent characters included with Vox Proxy the Character Gallery contains links to the characters creators Our web site contains a list of available download sites If you would like referrals for creating your own agent characters contact us by e mail support voxproxy com Inserting a Show Command If you are creating or editing a script and the Script Writer is visible you may insert a command into your script at this time by pressing the Insert button on the gallery form The Insert button will display the Show character wizard form A Show character command will be inserted into your script at the current cursor location Placing Characters If you are building a script and have a Vox Proxy Script Writer Edit Window open for either a macro or a PowerPoint slide
149. tions in addresses phone numbers web addresses etc I Idle animation One of a special set of character animations beginning with the word idle These animations are played randomly after several seconds of inaction by the character L List box A dialog box containing a list of items from which the end user may make a selection The dialog box is displayed during a slide show and the selection result can be acted upon in the script See the ListBox command Looping animation A character animation that loops until it is explicitly stopped Animation names usually end with ing Special care must be taken using looping animations 141 Vox Proxy Documentation Macro A Vox Proxy script that is saved in a file rather than a PowerPoint slide Macro files can be executed directly from Windows by opening the macro file They can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation file or another macro file Message box A dialog box that can be displayed to the user during a slide show The message box displays a text message and can have several optional response buttons The user s response can be captured and acted upon in the script Microsoft Agent Microsoft Agent is a character technology used by Vox Proxy It allows characters to appear on top of any application perform pre selected animations and to speak using either a TTS engine or pre recorded sound files S Shape A PowerPoint slide object Shapes with custom animations
150. u do not when the end user starts the CD the software will detect whether the user s computer has access to PowerPoint If so it will use whatever version the user has If not it will automatically use the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer The author should be aware that each version of PowerPoint has many features which are not supported in prior versions You must design your presentations accordingly if you want them to work properly with all versions The new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer offers a consistent play 124 CD Prep back and therefore alleviates this problem so we strongly recommend that you require the CD always play on the viewer One important feature of Vox Proxy will not work in PowerPoint 97 the WaitforClick command As an alternative to WaitforClick split your slide into duplicate slides at the points where you want to wait for a click WaitforClick WILL work in the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer The PowerPoint Viewer does not support slide ID numbers In order to work in the Viewer be sure to use slide numbers rather than slide IDs in any GotoSlide commands Minimum Requirements for Playback The computer on which the CD will be played must have Windows 98SE Me NT 4 0 2000 Professional or XP It will NOT play correctly under Windows 3 1 The PowerPoint 2003 Viewer requires Windows 98 SE or newer so if you anticipate supporting 95 or early versions of 98 do not force the CD to run on the 2003 Viewer Other minimum requirem
151. u item 2 The presentation file this can be either a PowerPoint file ppt or pps or a Vox Proxy script macro file VPs 3 Description this description will be shown to the user when the presentation is selected on the user menu CD Files There may be a number of files needed on the CD other than the presentation files themselves CDPrep will automatically scan your presentation file s for file references and show them here Five kinds of files are grouped by their location on the CD 1 PowerPoint presentations This may include pps or ppt files Do NOT include files already specified on the Menu Builder You may however include PowerPoint slide shows which are run from a script macro All of these files will be placed in the presentations folder on the CD 130 CD Prep 2 Script Macros Include any Vox Proxy script macros here These files must have the extension vpm They will be placed in the macros folder on the CD 3 Media files Include any media files which are called in your script macros and are not embedded in a PowerPoint presentation Any files compatible with Microsoft Media Player can be included These files will be placed in the media folder on the CD 4 Temp files Any files listed here will be copied to the Windows temp folder on the end user s hard drive When the presentation is complete these files will be deleted from the user s hard drive This feature allows media or files to be rap
152. u will see the slide appear full screen Peedy will fly into the center of the screen and speak There s one more save required since the script is embedded into the PPT file you must also save the PowerPoint presentation You ve done it Your first script has been written tested and saved When you re ready to run this script in your slide show you must turn on Vox Proxy s Run Mode Do this by clicking Vox Proxy Run Vox Proxy With Slide Shows If you forget this step your slide show will run without the character scripts As a time saving tip for entering and editing scripts you can right click in the Script Writer s edit window to open the Power Scripting Menu This can substitute for the Script Wizard All script commands are available from a cascading menu and selecting a command will display the corresponding wizard From the Power Scripting Menu you can also insert character Show commands select animations for the current character insert speech tags display help for the current script command and test a line of speech This menu is context sensitive so if you are editing a script be sure to click at the location you re editing in the script Sample Scripts Simple script with two characters show Merlin at Left Center balloons on Greet say Peedy where are you show peedy at Center say Hi Merlin Got any good crackers moveto Bottom Right say None here moveto Top Left say Here we are Idle2 2 say Not bad See
153. us character For example to allow Peedy and Merlin to hide at the same time Merlin Hide Peedy Hide nowait Also see wait options in the Reference General section 11 Vox Proxy Documentation Looping Animations Some animations are designed to run continuously in a loop until explicitly stopped These are called looping animations Their name normally ends in ing like searching Such animations must be handled with care because if not stopped properly the can run forever and effectively hang your script Vox Proxy includes a built in timer that is invoked automatically when you play any animation whose name ends in ing When the timer times out it stops whatever the character is doing allowing the script to continue Since Vox Proxy assumes that any animation ending with ing is looping you must take special care for these special cases 1 Animations whose names end in ing but are not looping In your script follow the animation name with the option noloop For example Show Peedy at center Listening noloop 2 Looping animations whose names do not end in ing In your script follow the animation name with the option loop For example Show Chuck at center Hearing 1 1oop Random Animations You may specify a list of animations one of which will be randomly selected to play This can be useful on a menu slide for example that is returned to often in a presentation so that the gestures are not always the sam
154. uthored size size 2X Twice authored size Size 1 16 One sixteenth of the screen area Size 1 4 one fourth of the screen area default Size 1 2 one half of the screen area Size FS full screen Size NONE No display useful for audio files 5 Controls Select one of the following controls none controls some default controls all 6 Volume Specify a number from 0 to 100 The default volume is the maximum 100 Zero is not actually mute but a very low volume 7 Loop Specify the number of times the file should play 8 Ontop This optional parameter is sometimes needed to ensure that the media is visible on top of other images 9 nowait This works like all other nowait options if it is specified the Microsoft Media Player will begin to load before the previous character is finished its speech or actions May be used to hide the load time for the Media Player The PlayMedia command assigns a value of one to the variable amp Response if the media file successfully starts or a zero if it does not Examples PlayMedia amp media STSland mpeg at 50 50 wait size FS PlayMedia amp media guitar wma at 50 50 size NONE controls none PlayMedia c my files music mp3 at 50 50 size 1 4 controls none Note in these examples the use of the variable amp media This variable is created automatically by Vox Proxy and points by default to the directory program files vox proxy media Wizard Miscellaneous
155. which you might call on multiple slides when the character is finished and you can proceed to the next slide A typical slide script might be pos Caos RunMacro Next Slide The macro script for Next Slide might be Say You can change slides now Go ahead to the next slide It s OK to change slides now Next slide I ll wait for you to change slides Another use would be in working with speech commands If the user s input is not recognized you might want the character to respond with Say Sorry I didn t understand that What did you say What was that Huh Please stick to words that I understand A little care in testing and adjusting your characters speech will go a long way in improving the effectiveness of your presentation Using Multiple Characters Interaction between characters is one of the most effective tools for creating interest and avoiding a boring presentation but it also presents many challenges The greatest challenges of course are in the script s dialog But the more technical issues of making two or more characters interact effectively is also important Of these timing is one of the more important To understand the timing of characters you must understand that in order to simplify the scripts the default in Vox Proxy is that each character must wait until the previous character finishes its speech and actions before proceeding with its own This ensures that nothing unexpected will ha
156. x Proxy Search Paths For each file type recognized the search paths are as follows PowerPoint Presentation Files 1 The Vox Proxy presentation folder c program files vox proxy presentations 44 2 The Vox Proxy application folder c program files vox proxy 3 The folder from which Vox Proxy was started Media Files audio video The Vox Proxy application folder c program files vox proxy The folder from which Vox Proxy was started RWNFH cript Macro Files S 1 The Vox Proxy macro folder c program files vox proxy macros 2 The Vox Proxy presentation folder c program files vox proxy presentations 3 4 The Vox Proxy application folder c program files vox proxy The folder from which Vox Proxy was started Variables Variables containing search paths include l amp appdir c program files vox proxy amp chardir c windows msagent chars amp DiskDrive current default disk drive amp macrodir c program files vox proxy macros amp mediadir c program files vox proxy media c program files vox proxy presentations amp tempdir windows temp folder amp windir windows folder General Rules for Scripts The Vox Proxy media folder c program files vox proxy media The Vox Proxy presentation folder c program files vox proxy presentations Reference All commands and character names are NOT case sensitive Say SAY and say are all equivalent Before a chara
157. x Proxy works through scripts that are saved in each slide of the presentation file We give you some basics about scripts and an introduction to character speech and animations An extensive reference section provides details about each Vox Proxy script command Previous users of Vox Proxy should check out What s new in Version 3 To get started quickly look at the step by step Guide to your first script For information on playing your Vox Proxy presentations on other computers read about the Vox Proxy Player Vox Proxy s optional CD Prep feature lets you create self starting self contained CDs that you can distribute royalty free The CD s will play on most Windows computers from 98SE on Each CD will contain the Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Viewer so PowerPoint is not required to play it Additional highly animated characters are available on our web site at www voxproxy com Click on the character gallery and look for the extra cost characters Vox Proxy uses Microsoft Agent technology and the advanced application development tools of APL2000 Inc Copyrights and trademarks What s New in Vox Proxy Version 3 With Version 3 Vox Proxy adds support for two important new Microsoft products the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and Windows Media Player 9 Support for the new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer means that you can distribute presentations to people who do not have PowerPoint and as long as they ve installed the free Vox Proxy version 3
158. you insert the command into your script Syntax WayWav balloon text file Examples Show Merlin SayWav Good Morning c my files gm wav SayWav gm wav Wizard Other Agent Commands MI Speak Play Audio Wav File Help Text to appear in speech balloon Speak wav file Browse Convert text above to a wav file requires AT amp T Natural Voices ScaleCharacters Vox Proxy characters are defined with a fixed pixel size Consequently if the slide show is played at a screen resolution different than that at which it was authored the characters will appear smaller or larger than on the authoring screen Use this command to automatically scale characters size to appear the same regardless of the screen resolution the slide show is played at Syntax ScaleCharacters H H represents the screen height of the authoring system in pixels 38 Reference For example if you are authoring with a screen resolution of 800x600 pixels then you should set H to 600 If the slide show is played at a screen resolution of 1024x768 the character s size would be scaled to 768 600 or 1 28 times its default size The character will appear to be the same height on the slide as it was during authoring Examples ScaleCharacters 600 Wizard Miscellaneous Commands Show Display a character at a specified location Syntax Show character name at location sizezN idle on off balloons on off language L v

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