The viewer
On the left, the slide exactly as it is drawn. On the right, the script of what is being said. At the bottom, the dock. And over the page, a frame that moves.
The frame
The frame surrounds the block the voice is talking about and slides to the next one when the idea changes. It is not a highlighter: there is no fill and no veil, because any layer over the paper, however soft, gets in the way exactly where you have to read.
It is the only thing in the whole app with colour. You can switch it to amber or violet, and you can turn it off entirely if it distracts: it is remembered.
The dock and the settings
At the bottom, within reach: previous slide, play or pause, next. And the settings, which are five:
- Detail: summary, full or extended.
- Voice: the three for the language you are listening in.
- Speed: from 0.8× to 1.75×.
- Indicators: the frame, on or off, and in which colour.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Space | Play or pause. |
| Left and right arrows | The previous slide and the next one. |
| Up and down arrows | The previous paragraph and the next, meaning the idea, not the second. |
| 1 to 4 | Pick an option, when a multiple-choice question is on screen. |
Coming back where you left off
The home screen has the list of recently opened documents, with where you were and how many slides are ready. A document resumes with the same settings you were listening with -the voice, the model and the detail level- which is what makes what was already generated usable as is.
While you listen, the dock says how much is left to finish the document and how many slides are ready. And when the last one ends, it congratulates you.
Marking and deleting
Any paragraph of the script can be marked as not understood with a click, and from the home screen you jump back to the first marked slide. The trash, on the other hand, deletes the whole document: the file, the rendered pages, the explanations and the audio. It asks for confirmation and changes its mind on its own after four seconds.
When the slide does not say that
Next to that marker there is another one, a crossed circle, for the paragraph that talks about something the slide does not contain. The most common case is one that keeps telling the previous slide's topic. It is not a switch: when you press it, Filmina reads the slide again and compares. If it agrees with you, it rewrites that paragraph without what had been made up and voices it again right there.
Marking is not being right, which is why there is a review in between. If what you marked was on the slide after all, it tells you and nothing else happens: it is not left marked and it counts for nothing. From what does get confirmed, Filmina learns: that lecture carries on with the correction in place, and once the same kind of mistake shows up across several different documents, the correction starts applying to all of them.