Brilliant Bryan thank you. Dónal On 1 Mar 2013, at 05:58, Bryan Jones <openses...@me.com> wrote:
> Hello Donal, > > Here's an email I sent last year that might help. > > Cheers, > Bryan > > Begin forwarded message: >> Subject: A tip for hearing your slide numbers during a Keynote slide show >> presentation >> >> I've grown pretty fond of Keynote on my Mac & iPad, but one glaring >> accessibility shortcoming is the lack of VO feedback when a slide or >> presentation is played in Slide Show mode as is commonly done when making a >> large screen presentation. AFAIK there is still no way to have VO indicate >> which slide is currently displayed in this mode. >> >> To get around this shortcoming I've begun embedding an MP3 audio file in >> each slide. The audio file is simply a 1 or 2 second recording of me >> speaking the slide number, for example "Slide One." This MP3 is played >> automatically as I move between slides. >> >> Here are the steps I've used to do this. Hope somebody else finds this >> useful, and my apologies if this idea has already been offered here. >> 1. Create the audio files, one for each slide.. I'm sure there are a million >> ways to do this, but I made mine with my standard apple earbuds with inline >> mic plugged into my Macbook air running Amadeus. I saved the audio in MP3 >> format. >> 2. In Keynote on the Mac, focus on the desired slide and press >> Command+Shift+V to open a file browser. Browse to the audio files you >> created and select the desired file. This will insert the audio file into >> the slide. As far as I can tell, there is no visible indication of this >> audio file during a slide show, but when creating or editing your >> presentation you can access it just as you would any other element on the >> slide. You can also preview the clip from the "Media" tab of the Inspector. >> 3. Repeat the process for each slide in your presentation. >> >> Now, when I put the presentation in Slide Show mode, the MP3 file embedded >> in each slide plays automatically as I move to that slide. It works going >> forward and backward both. If I have an audio file in the first slide, it >> seems to activate on my second press of the spacebar or right arrow. I have >> also saved the presentation in iCloud and presented it via my iPad2 >> connected to a projector via the Apple VGA adapter, and these audio files >> played just fine on the iPad. >> >> HTH, >> Bryan >> > > On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick <dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie> > wrote: >> Has anyone found a way to do the following in Keynote: >> >> 1. embed Audio into a prsentation and activate it in Slideshow mode? >> 2. 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