Can you speed up the player in Articulate 360?
Jun 15, 2017
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Hello Everyone!
I'm happy to share that we have released Storyline 360 version 72 (Build 3.72.29654.0).
Included in this release is a new feature where you can let learners explore at their own pace by choosing a course playback speed between 0.25x and 2x.
Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Have a great day!
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Hi Norman,
No, that's not currently possible. I'm curious as to why you'd want them to be able to do that. Care to share?
some learners would like to be able to speed up the narrator. we've had feedback that the pace is too slow (for some).
some video players allow for you to increase speed of the audio.
Hmm... even if you were able to speed up the audio, I think it would sound funny. But you can go ahead and submit a feature request if you'd like.
I agree that this would be a great and welcome option in Studio and Storyline. Nearly all modern online video players all the viewer to adjust the playback speed. In most cases, the speed changes, but the pitch stays the same. Adjusting the speed would also need to proportionally effect any animations or other movement on screen.
Slower can work better for learners who are non-native English speakers or when the speaker has a strong accent. Faster is great when the speaker is a little slow to keep attention.
I'll be submitting a feature request.
Joe
I also agree that it would be a great and wanted option. People does have different tempers and some want slow speed others fast and even very fast speed.
We have several feedbacks wanting this option.
Is there any news on this? It's something a lot of other SCORM publishing tools seem to allow?
E.g. users can participate at 1.5x 2x speed etc. I've used materials like this myself and it's a great time saver / doesn't really take anything away.
It *should* be as simple as speeding up the timeline?
Would like to hear an answer to this as well.
http://www.mecs-press.org/ijmecs/ijmecs-v8-n7/IJMECS-V8-N7-3.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131514001511?via%3Dihub
http://www.aritzhaupt.com/eprofessional/papers/2015/RitzhauptPastoreDavis.pdf
There is another thread on this..with more feedback from Articulate Staff.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/changing-speed-of-audio-in-articulate-storyline
I'd also like to throw my hat into the ring on this issue, to follow development progress on it and weigh in on it.
I represent the engineering team at a premier educational platform for medical professionals, and our customers are clamoring for a way to play audio/video at different speeds, and also have the option to toggle between manual slide navigation and autoplay.
Articulate working this into its product roadmap would be more than welcomed and appreciated by its direct and indirect customers alike.
Cheers to the Articulate engineering team who is able to deliver this highly demanded feature enhancement.
Great product, btw!
Variable playback is essential.
I like to do that myself when watching video tutorials on youtube or listen to podcast.
i hope the feature vill come to articulate as well. Adobe Captivate has it...
I am adding my voice to this feature request. We really need the ability for our learners to be able to adjust the timeline speed up and down.
JHi Niklas & Kevin. Just popping in here to let you both know that I've added both of your voices to this feature request. We're still tracking this one and will update this thread with any news or updates.
I second this motion strongly. our users are young medical students who want to absorb teaching materials at individual speed. in all honesty, i think this is a feature should be a natural part of any application nowadays. this feels outdated.
You can now do this to videos inside of Rise. This was released recently.
I've got some JavaScript code that will speed up and slow down audio playback in HTML5. I use a SL embedded variable reference ("playbackSpeed") to show on screen the playback speed. You can put these JS code bits on buttons and test it out:
//slow down
var player = GetPlayer();
var SLplaybackSpeed = player.GetVar("playbackSpeed");
if (SLplaybackSpeed>0.5) {
SLplaybackSpeed -= 0.25;
}
var myAudio = $("audio");
myAudio[0].playbackRate = SLplaybackSpeed;
player.SetVar("playbackSpeed",SLplaybackSpeed);
// speed up
var player = GetPlayer();
var SLplaybackSpeed = player.GetVar("playbackSpeed");
if (SLplaybackSpeed<2.00) {
SLplaybackSpeed += 0.25;
}
var myAudio = $("audio");
myAudio[0].playbackRate = SLplaybackSpeed;
player.SetVar("playbackSpeed",SLplaybackSpeed);
//
To control video, just replace the
var myAudio = $("audio");
with
var myVide = $("video");
What I'd like to see in tandem with this is to control timeline playback speed. Haven't cracked that one yet. Anyone have any ideas?
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your contribution.
Although, can you please elaborate the control video part?? audio speed control is working fine but i am not able to do anything with "var myVide = $("video");"
Please reply
Dear Joe,
could you please share if you get an answer, or some other kind of solution?
when English is not the native language, we encounter the same issues
First, I should have named the variable "myVideo". Sorry about that.
I think you just replace all instances of "myAudio" with "myVideo" in
the code provided, and then make sure there is a video on your slide.
I haven't checked this in awhile so I'm not up on it. I know that
Articulate decided to take out jQuery references, so this might affect
what I was trying to do here.
-Mark
Adding to this list, I would also like to see this feature. People absorb (and pay attention) at different speeds, and, even if the audio changes in sound many users will not care. We put in triggers that prevent users from bypassing information for good reason, but we also want them awake and interested!
This would be like most audiobook players, Allison. They have an algorithm to adjust speed without changing pitch, avoiding the "chipmunk" effect when playing faster. This lets the listener find a comfortable pace.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing that insight, Mark. We've added this as a feature request but don't have any updates on whether or not it'll be added to our roadmap. That being said, you're now subscribed to this conversation which means if we have any updates to share, you’ll automatically be notified.
There are a bunch of requests and threads for this feature going back as far as seven years. And as far as I can tell Storyline (which usually excels in everything else) is one of the only major authoring/learning tools without this option. Youtube, Audible, Vimeo, Linkedin Learning, and EVEN Captivate let you do this. As well as most LMS' built-in authoring tools... Is there any update on this request? I don't want to move to other authoring tools but this is a feature that our audiences expect in 2020.
I'd like to add to this from the perspective of the broadcast techs whom I'm creating technical training modules for - several of them have asked if I could make the ability to speed up the timeline available in my modules.
They tell me that they frequently use YouTube clips to learn about "stuff" and they use it as follows:
I have actually made quite an effort (as a quick-speaking Kiwi) to slow down my narration and I use Animation to introduce each paragraph of text linked to my recorded delivery, and I've been at pains to ensure that learners can assimilate the speech and the text, but it seems that this doesn't suit everyone and some (perhaps more who haven't spoken to me yet) would really like the ability to control delivery speed in order to get through the simple / basic material quicker, yet concentrate on the more complex material at 1X speed.
I think this would be a very worthwhile feature to add to Storyline if it's feasible.
Thankyou!
I do the exact same thing with most videos i see online ( except for Netflix ;-) So i do think better control of audio, video and the Storyline timeline is needed. In fact as Articulate updated to GSAP 3.5.1 and im almost 100% sure they use GSAP code behind the scenes for all animation in Storyline ( suspecting they use GSAP timelines for the Storyline timeline ) it shouldnot be difficult to give users the possibilities GSAP timelines have. Thus speeding up and slowing down complete Storyline timelines.
Here you find the GSAP timeline documentation.
https://greensock.com/docs/v3/GSAP/Timeline
This GSAP parameter speeds down any given timeline to 0.1% of normal.
gsap.to(myStorylineTimeline, {duration:2,timeScale:0.1, ease:power1.easeIn});
This line of code sets it to normal speed.
gsap.to(myStorylineTimeline, {duration:2,timeScale:1, ease:power1.easeIn});
And now we speed it up 4 times as fast...
gsap.to(myStorylineTimeline, {duration:2,timeScale:4, ease:power1.easeIn});
Only thing we need to know, is how to access Storyline's internal timelines.