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This is the first time I use a voice-over soundtrack in an Opus application (I've only used sound effects to date) and I can't really believe Opus Pro doesn't have a Pause Sound feature, nor does OpusScript. Unbelievable. Is this really true?

Have you considered using several snaller sound bites rather than one big one? The smaller bites give you some control over timings.

Hi rubem

Is it really true?

Well yes and no.

There is a "pause" action in script.
However, they seem to have left out the "continue"

mySound.Stop(false)

Actually stops the sound where it is and the help file says that
it can be continued from there, but I can't see how.

Sooo. Here's the work around.

Create the variable <a> as a number with an initial value of 0

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//Play or continue the sound
var mySound = OpenSound("sound.wav")
mySound.Play(1,100,a)

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//Pause the sound
mySound.Stop(false)
a = mySound.GetPosition()

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HTH
Chris

Great! Thank you so much for the solution. It seems that GetPosition() method "swallows" about one second of audio (a slow pause mechanism? ), but it works! Problem solved. Thanks again.

Now, what about a real "Pause" command? What do the Opus guys have to say?

you can import the sound as a video object and then use the video options