how to make my web page(s) "talk"

[jackidance]

when my home page opens, besides the background music, I would really like to say "HELLO GUEST"

maybe something more. not sure.
I can record the "greeting" with my mic in .wav format but then what?
I am not sure how to get it into the home page - I use frontpage 2003.
Any help at all would be most appreciated.
thanks
Jacki

[stespeakdesigns]

The company which I work for do something called Web Audio from time to time. Basically, we send a script off to a voice actor who will read the script and keep pauses between pages.

So basically we get a file back which has all the talking for each page, and a gap which shows where each page is seperated.

We use sound editing software to slice or trim the speech into seperate files, i.e. homepage, services, enquiry, contact

We then have a mp3 music background and we import the slice over the music, and edit the volume of the music so that the speech is audiable over the music and the music fades out once the speech is done.

we save these files as mp3's seperately so utlimately we have the music and speech togethor in 1 file for each page. And we then use "Adobe Flash CS3" and import the file into there, and set it up with an audio button.

We end up with 4 flash files for example, homepage.swf, services.swf, enquiries.swf, contact.swf

Then we simply use software such as dreamweaver to insert these into the website, and when the website loads the flash loads with it, and the music automatically plays with speech - it also gives the user the ability to stop the audio by pressing a button.

[Webjedikungfu]

Do this, it's easy:

If you need it to stall for a few seconds just wait a few seconds before you start speaking after you press record in the recording program you use.

Here is the code you put on your page. Add your ".wav" file to same directory on server where the webpage is.

<EMBED src="HelloGuest.wav" autostart=true loop=false volume=100
hidden=true><NOEMBED><BGSOUND src="HelloGuest.wav"></NOEMBED>
Place as many of these as you want, just offset your recordings to do the job. Also consider converting to .mp3 instead to optimize.

To tie it to events(button press, page change, etc...) do as the poster before me suggested.

[jackidance]

Webjedikungfu: thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for. I just want a few little snippets of "advice" - here and there, no big selling speel. so thanks again. Jacki

Stephen: thanks to you also. You are a much bigger "doer" than I need but the MP3 advice is well taken. That will come later. The site right now is much to big and bulky to change. At some point it will need to be redone. Thanks to all
Jacki (www.actionsnacks.com)

[Webjedikungfu]

No sweat jackidance, good luck with your work!:)

~Adam