Using a Personalization Token to Personalize the Narration

Overview

The voice-over in your video can be personalized for your viewers using data unique to them.

Here are some examples of how a voice-over can be personalized to create a more customized viewing experience:

When you use a personalization token, the token represents data that is passed to SundaySky for each viewer. The token, created with a data field, is populated with actual data passed to SundaySky when the video is rendered for the viewer. In order to implement a personalization token in a voice-over, you'll need to create the relevant data field, together with the values that you would like to have narrated for this data field (example below).
See Creating a New Data Library to learn how to create data fields and values.

For example:
If you are narrating Welcome to the {department name} department,
you would create a data field called department name together with the values that you would like narrated (Finance, People, Customer Support, R&D). In the video, using a curly bracket, you will create a personalization token representing the department name.

If you do not add the department name values, the data field (department name) will not be eligible for narration.

Configuring the Voice-over

1.	From the scene line-up, select the relevant scene.
2.	Select the narration placeholder beneath the scene.
3.	On the toolbar, click the Edit Voice-over icon.
4.	In the Message field, begin by typing the voice-over that you want everyone to hear.
5.	Position the cursor where you want to insert the personalization token and then type a left curly bracket﹛.
	A drop-down list with all the available data fields is displayed.
6.	Select the data field that you want to use for the personalization token. ▶ In the example below, viewers will hear their first name followed by the text that everyone will hear. ▶ Only one personalization token can be added to a narration placeholder.
7.	Type the fallback voice-over. This is the text that will be narrated when data is not available. ▶ In the example below: if a viewer's first name was not added as a value, the voice-over will be: Hi, here are a few fun facts about our company that we'd like to share with you.
8.	Click anywhere outside the configuration dialog window to close the window.
	An icon is added to the narration placeholder and to the scene thumbnail in the line-up to indicate that personalization has been added.