To play the SitePal Scene automatically (so it will speak as soon as it is loaded) please open your Scene's "Options" (it's the 'gear wheel' option) and turn ON the 'play on load' option.

Note that there are several options available - you can limit the automatic playback to occur only once per session, once a day, etc.

These options are useful to prevent the SitePal character from seeming repetitive to repeat visitors.

Another - related - option that you may not be aware of, is the ability to assign multiple audios to the Scene.

When doing so, your SitePal will select one of the audios at random each time it speaks.

Please consider what works best for you.

Regards,

Gil

Hi Kashif -

Can you post a link to your Scene? I'd like to see which type of character you are using.

So for Classic characters the play button is part of the "player" - and you may select "none" as your player option. If you do that no play button will be available.

With the Full Body characters - the play button only appears "on rollover" (when the user's cursor overlays the character). On mobile devices the play button only appears when the character is touched. This behavior cannot be changed.

Hope this helps,

GIl

Hi Key -

Did you try the full body character?

or only the classic characters?

if not - please try & let me know.

We will look into it next week & advise.

Regards

Gil

Hi Juanita -

We haven't tried!

But excited to find out - if you try it please let me know if you run into problems.

The issue of "embed compatibility" if it can be called that - is interesting -

In Voki 2.0 we moved away from Flash technology (which is not supported on mobile devices and some modern browsers) - to use HTML5 technology - which is supported everywhere.

But this change requires the embed code to use javascript programming. Some sites don't like that.

That's why we kept on the old (deprecated) Flash embed code - in case you need it.

Bottom line - try it and see, and let us know!

Regards,

Gil

Hi Vladimir -

We identified a problem with the built-in AI players - they do not support Cyrilic - but the API does. That's good, because the Players are being deprecated (as we move to HTML5 playback soon) - but the API will be supported moving forward.

So I encourage you to use the API solution. The programming required is relatively minimal - and we have an example in the support pages - http://www.oddcast.com/support/sayAI.html

This example is in English - I'll see if we can put up an example that works in Russian.

Hope this helps

Gil

Hi Shaun -

SitePal characters can deliver most features/capabilities without any programming. And to allow extended capabilities we have made available the API. The functionality that you are looking for falls under that category - it is only supported by using the API (hence via programming).

Many of our customers know how to handle basic programming in HTML & Javascript - and that should be enough in this case.

For those that do not feel comfortable dabbling in code - they often times get a consultant to do so.

I hope that explains the context of my response and why it had to be technical. I am sorry if you found it confusing.

Best regards,

Gil

Hi Helmut -

Yes - it is possible to switch voices in mid-speech, including from one language to another.

You can use SSML tags to do so - as per the following example.

Please try the following example & adapt it for your needs - select voice "Julie" in the sitepal editor - and paste this text in -

I can change my voice while I speak! <voice Name="Bridget">A posh accent if you please</voice>! or speak in a different language! <voice Name="Violeta"> 1 2 3 4 Cinco de mayo </voice>

The above example uses only voices from engine 3 (Julie, Bridget, Violeta). Note that you must use voices from the same "engine" and that only voices from engines 2 and 3 support this functionality. You can find the list of voices per engine in the API Reference document (see appendix)

Hope this helps,

Gil

Hello Vladimir -

Let me look into it & get back to you.

Regards

Gil

François -

We're looking into it.