Guide speech controls and automatic narration

Use the Guide's speech controls in Preview or Play to hear available content. Controls may be icon buttons with accessible labels.

Start, pause, or stop

• Speak page starts the page's narration.
• Speak block starts that block's narration.
• Pause pauses current audio or device speech; Resume continues it.
• Stop ends current speech and cancels pending automatic narration for the current location. Use Speak again to request another reading.

Starting a new manual reading interrupts the previous one. Moving to another page or focused block stops outgoing speech. A loading target cannot start a duplicate Speak request; Stop remains available while it is loading.

Speak can be unavailable when there is no speakable text or ready recording. For Field blocks, a manual reading can include current method help and visible options after the prompt.

Automatic reading

Your Accessibility speech preferences control page reading, option reading, and submitted-answer speech. Author restrictions at Guide, Page, or Block level can suppress automatic reading; they cannot opt you in.

Automatic jobs are coordinated rather than all speaking together. Answering can interrupt old narration or an obsolete option list. A newer answer or navigation can cancel a pending answer announcement.

In Simplified presentation, automatic reading follows the focused block. Moving focus stops the outgoing reading; manual Speak page still requests the whole page. Merely rerendering the same page does not continually repeat its automatic narration.

Automatic narration can coordinate with autoplay video. Manual Speak page does not itself start the page's autoplay videos.

Understand page wording and recordings

Without a page override, page narration uses its blocks in order, combining ready block recordings with generated speech where applicable.

An author's Speech on page visit normally replaces that combined narration. Manual Speak block and automatic focused-block narration still address the individual block. A page override can therefore sound different from its blocks, and a block can use device speech even when the page has cloud audio.

When communication adaptation is active or its profile is still loading, available block recordings are preserved. On a page with custom spoken wording, this can mean hearing those recordings instead of the page override.

Understand the voice and fallback

For an individual block, a ready author recording takes priority. Otherwise, CareMap uses available generated speech and can fall back to the device voice. If authored cloud audio was not prepared, playback can use the learner's default voice instead.

If cloud speech remains preparing, CareMap can ask you to try Speak again shortly. It does not always immediately switch to device speech. When a fallback has started, late cloud audio does not replace that reading.

Eligible cloud speech can begin playing while the rest is prepared. Stopping playback may still allow reusable speech to finish saving for later use, and completed generation can still consume credits. If playback fails after it has started, CareMap does not automatically replay the whole utterance.

Personal answer speech, such as free-text values, is not saved to the reusable speech cache or offline audio package merely because it can play incrementally.

Device speech rate and cloud Voice Profile speed are separate settings. Neither rewrites an existing recording.

Personalized and offline speech

Communication adaptation uses accepted personalized wording while preserving recordings. If that wording or profile is unavailable, speech may stop instead of substituting the original text. Review the communication status before retrying.

Offline playback uses audio prepared on that device. Missing recorded audio in an offline package can remain unavailable rather than using text fallback. Refresh the package while connected and test again.

For unexpected wording, silence, or preparation errors, follow speech troubleshooting.