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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 the slide was visited. This will cause problems with selfnarrated 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 &S=&SlideNumber Then, to return to that slide from a subsequent slide, you could use: GotoSlide &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 some good illustrations using the tools in Vox Proxy. 114
