Playing sound in a for loop?

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#1

I’m doing a typewriter effect for a TextLabel and I’m also trying to play a sound with it. Unfortunately, no matter where I put it in the for loop, it just doesn’t play. Anyone know how I can make the for loop also play the sound while the text is being typed?

local text = "Welcome to another one of my idiotic games"
local sound = game.Workspace.Sound

wait(5)

for i = 1, #text do 
	script.Parent.Text = string.sub(text, 1, i)
	wait(0.005)
	
		end
#3

put Sound:Play after the
script.Parent.Text = string.sub(text, 1, i)

#4

Check if the Sound’s Volume is 0, and use sound:Play()

#5

First thing I tried. Whenever I do so, the sound will only play once after all of the text is typed out

#6

The sound does kind of play when I insert it into the for loop. But only once after the text is fully typed out

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#7

Have you tried playing the sound then stop it after the wait? so it should loop play wait stop until for loop is complete

#8

Actually, could you try changing it to a LocalScript inside StarterPack and & try this instead?

local text = "Welcome to another one of my idiotic games"
local sound = game.Workspace.Sound

wait(5)

for i = 1, #text do 
    game.SoundService:PlayLocalSound(Sound)
	script.Parent.Text = string.sub(text, 1, i)
	wait(0.005)
end

Reference:

Not sure if this will work but give it a shot I suppose?

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#9

Now it simply doesn’t play when I do that

#10

Actually it is in a LocalScript and why would it need to be in StarterPack? It’s a GUI

#11

Oh okay, just try doing SoundService’s PlayLocalSound function instead then maybe?

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#12

it could be too fast for the sound to do my loop ( .005 sec is really quick)

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#13

That did it and also now I know about PlayLocalSound. (Also how do you highlight those API stuff like PlayLocalSound?)

#14

Just copy & paste the link, and it should preview it as a reference lol
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