A plugin for Reveal.js allowing to easily add audio playback to each slide and fragment of your presentation. The slideshow adds an audio player to the slideshow and plays an audio file provided for each slide and fragment. When an audio file has finished playing, the plugin and automatically advances the slideshow to the next slide or fragment.
Copy the files audio-slideshow.js and slideshow-recorder.js into the plugin folder of your reveal.js presentation, i.e. plugin/audio-slideshow .
Add the plugins to the dependencies in your presentation, as below.
Reveal.initialize( // . dependencies: [ // . src: 'plugin/audio-slideshow/RecordRTC.js', condition: function( ) return !!document.body.classList; > >, src: 'plugin/audio-slideshow/slideshow-recorder.js', condition: function( ) return !!document.body.classList; > >, src: 'plugin/audio-slideshow/audio-slideshow.js', condition: function( ) return !!document.body.classList; > >, // . ] >); The plugin slideshow-recorder.js is optional and not necessary for audio playback.
The audio-slideshow.js plugin has several parameters that you can set for your presentation by providing an audio option in the reveal.js initialization options. Note that all configuration parameters are optional and will default as specified below.
Reveal.initialize( // . audio: prefix: 'audio/', // audio files are stored in the "audio" folder suffix: '.ogg', // audio files have the ".ogg" ending textToSpeechURL: null, // the URL to the text to speech converter defaultNotes: false, // use slide notes as default for the text to speech converter defaultText: false, // use slide text as default for the text to speech converter advance: 0, // advance to next slide after given time in milliseconds after audio has played, use negative value to not advance autoplay: false, // automatically start slideshow defaultDuration: 5, // default duration in seconds if no audio is available defaultAudios: true, // try to play audios with names such as audio/1.2.ogg playerOpacity: 0.05, // opacity value of audio player if unfocused playerStyle: 'position: fixed; bottom: 4px; left: 25%; width: 50%; height:75px; z-index: 33;', // style used for container of audio controls startAtFragment: false, // when moving to a slide, start at the current fragment or at the start of the slide >, // . >); You can configure keyboard shortcuts for the slideshow-recorder.js plugin by configuring the keyboard option in the reveal.js initialization options.
Reveal.initialize( // . keyboard: 82: function() Recorder.toggleRecording(); >, // press 'r' to start/stop recording 90: function() Recorder.downloadZip(); >, // press 'z' to download zip containing audio files 84: function() Recorder.fetchTTS(); > // press 't' to fetch TTS audio files > // . >; For each slide or fragment you can explicitly specify a file to be played when the slide or fragment is shown by setting the data-audio-src attribute for the slide or fragment.
With audio slideshows you can add recorded audio to whatever you want to deliver to your audience. class ="fragment" data-audio-src="audio/birds.ogg"> Listen to the birds If no audio file is explicitly specified, the plugin automatically determines the name of the audio file using the given prefix , the slide (or fragment) indices, and the suffix , e.g. in the above code the slideshow will play the file audio/1.2.ogg before the fragment is shown (assuming that prefix is "audio/" , suffix is ".ogg" , Reveal.getIndices().h is "1" and Reveal.getIndices().v is "2" ).
If you just want to play audio when file names are explicitly set with data-audio-src , configure defaultAudios to false .
If no audio file is explicitly specified and the default audio file is not found, the plugin can play audio files obtained from a text-to-speech generator. In order to enable text-to-speech functionality, the parameter textToSpeechURL must be specified. For example, in order to use the free text-to-speech generator of Voice RSS you can set textToSpeechURL: "http://api.voicerss.org/?key=[YOUR_KEY]&hl=en-gb&c=ogg&src language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">[YOUR_KEY] should be the key that you obtained after registration at Voice RSS.
The plugin automatically extracts the text to be sent to the text-to-speech generator from the slide content in the following order:
data-audio-text="This is the text sent to the text-to-speech generator"> This is the text shown on the slide This is the text data-audio-text="sent to the text-to-speech generator (but only if the parameter defaultText is set to true)">shown on the slide The slideshow-recorder.js plugin allows you to fetch the automatically generated audio files using the Recorder.fetchTTS() method (see configuration options). The fetched audio files are downloaded as a zip-file and can be provided to the slideshow. Note that the text-to-speech converter is only used if no audio file is provided with the slideshow.
You can use the slideshow-recorder.js plugin to record audio files for each slide and fragment. The Recorder.toggleRecording() method (see configuration options) is used to start or stop recording. A red circle in the upper right corner of the slideshow shows that the recorder is on. When navigating to a slide for which an audio file is already recorded, recording is suspended so that the previously recorded file is not lost. A yellow circle shows that recording is automatically resumed when navigating to a slide without a recorded audio file. After stopping the recorder, you can use the audio controls to check your recording and use the Recorder.downloadZip() method (see configuration options) to download a zip-file containing the audio files recorded for each slide and fragment.
If no audio file and no text is provided for a slide or fragment, the slide advances after the duration specified by the defaultDuration parameter.
The advance parameter can be used to specify a time (in milliseconds) to wait before advancing to the next slide or fragment. If the parameter value is set to zero, the slideshow advances with the next slide or fragment immediately after the previous audio is played. If the parameter value is set to a negative value, the slideshow does not advance after the audio is played. For each slide or fragment the data-audio-advance attribute can be set to overwrite the parameter.
By default the slideshow does not start automatically. The autoplay parameter can be used to automatically start the slideshow when navigating to it.
By default the audio slideshow does not show any fragment when navigating to a slide (even if they were shown previously). The startAtFragment parameter can be used to use the default behaviour of reveal.js.
By setting the data-audio-controls attribute for a video, the audio player controls can be linked to an embedded video.
preload="auto" data-audio-controls src="http://video.webmfiles.org/big-buck-bunny_trailer.webm" width="720" height="480"> Playback is supported on recent desktop versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. However, audio support of different browsers and for different operating systems is differently implemented and may not always work flawlessly. For example, playback of audio when using Chrome for Android, must be triggered manually for each slide and fragment due to design decisions of Chrome developers. For other browser and mobile devices the functionality may be limited or the plugin may not work at all.
The slideshow-recorder.js plugin is based on RecordRTC.js and supports recording on recent desktop versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. For other browser and mobile devices recording may not work at all.
Your slideshow should be loaded on HTTP or HTTPS. For slide decks stored on the local disk, you may have to launch the Chrome browser from the command line window with additional arguments for full functionality.
google-chrome --disable-web-security --allow-file-access-from-files slidedeck.html Copyright (C) 2016 Asvin Goel