But a confirmation that the audios have been loaded doesn't work for the site I'm working on. The end user doesn't need to know the audios have been loaded.

Hi Gil,

I've seen those examples. I've gotten the audio segments to play in succession. But there is too long an interval between the segments and I'm not sure how to use the load audio command. In the example page, there is a link to click that pulls up the alert saying that the audio is loaded. I'm not sure how that actually applies. What I need to do is load all the audios so the pause between them barely exists. Is there a simple way to do this? I am not a programmer and am not very good at this.

Yeah it could be blocking. They seem to be a fairly open platform, so it would be odd, but maybe. And I've bumped into the jquery / javascript conflict before. I realize jquery is pure javascript, but for some reason, a modal done in pure javascript cancels out a jquery script running on the same page.

Ok I'll send an email when I get back from lunch.

I'd be glad to email it to you. My site is not live yet. And we're trying to keep it under wraps till we launch.

You know what? I'm having one of those jquery / javascript conflicts. I've built my site on weebly and there is already a modal script running that does not use jquery. And its causing a conflict. Unfortunately, the script that is running already seems to be only capable of displaying images. So no iframes or anything like that. I suppose I may just substitute a pure javascript modal in place of the jquery one you provided rather than adding a no conflict patch. But I appreciate all the thought you've put into this.

On another note, I've been tinkering with other ways to accomplish the goal I have. Lets say I start with a minimized avatar floating on the top left of the browser. And suppose I have small buttons on each page. Can those buttons be set to activate or 'maximize' the minimized avatar and invoke a sayText?

Btw - this is probably a really good tutorial or example to post because I'm sure others want to do the same thing.

whoa nice! thanks.

Ok no problem. At least this will work. If I can get the window to be transparent, and have no close button, the effect will work.

Oh i see it is a time out in milliseconds. I suppose I could just try to account for the load/buffer time and tack on a few extra seconds. But is that reliable? What about folks with dialup? The modal may close before the avatar finishes speaking. Is there a way to pass the vh_talkEnded() event to the modal? or something? lol

Thanks. I figured modals and iframes would do it. I just thought there was a way to use the overlay feature, 1 avatar, multiple audios, and the client API to accomplish this. I am glad that the modal shuts down after they finish speaking. Is it a time out, or does it receive a call that marks the end of the audio?