This HIPAA compliance example created in Storyline 360 showcases the conditional seek bar feature, which allows you to stop learners from skipping ahead the first time they view your content while still making it easy for them to go back and review anything they didn't understand.

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This HIPAA compliance example created in Storyline 360 showcases the conditional seek bar feature, which allows you to stop learners from skipping ahead the first time they view your content while still making it easy for them to go back and review anything they didn't understand.

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Find out more about this feature here.

Is this example available to download?

I just added a download button! :)

That is a nice sample of text to speech. What do you do when words are not pronounced correctly?

This is slick! Thank you!

You're welcome

Great - thank you!!

I could see this useful for providing a client a preview of the lesson prior to sending the script to the narrator, or for quick just-in-time types of training where a fast turnaround is necessary. Unfortunately, text to speech still lacks the character of a human voice. Good presentation, nonetheless.

Someone reported my comment? I suppose someone disagrees with my opinion of TTS.

Hello Allison,
the blue text panels were really good, were they a pre-loaded template or did you design it yourself?

Glad you liked them, Syl. I made them myself! :)

Okey doke, stealing your ideas.

I needed a \"medical scenario\" for my portfolio, your blue boxes gave me an idea for some animation.

This is what I put together.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/98498893-1801-48a5-ba59-be0e4d4ce5ca/review

(password = hello)

I heard that making a vid takes about 1 hour of work per minute of final result... How long does it take you?

Love it! I'm so glad I could inspire you :) Good question. Honestly I've never timed myself, so I'm not sure.

This looks really good.
I do assume though that the intent is to showcase features as I intentionally got one wrong and it still gave me a tick. I don't create 360 Content much, as RISE does what we need but would love to see how you'd handle the wrong answers being given.
I personally feel that even a poor human narration is better than most text to speech narrations, but will use them from time to time where it gives people a break from reading content - where chunks cannot be avoided. A whole course of electronic voices would switch me off.
What are your thoughts Allison? :)

Hi Lionel!
What do you mean you got one wrong? There are no quiz questions in this example.

I totally agree that human narration always sounds better than machine narration, no matter how high the quality. However, sometimes there are time or budget constraints that make using text-to-speech the best option.

Sorry, just noticed your reply.
I honestly can't remember. Too many courses going around in my little brain :(

Hi Allison, I am wondering how you were able to have \"NEXT\" and \"PREVIOUS\" next to the buttons in the modern player? I only see the tiny arrows and we have received complaints about this.

Hi Alison. Previously I have always avoided text to speech as they can sound very robotic. However the voice of Joanne in your course is very good and a great alternative over a recorded human voice.

The T2S option is really good for one off modules, or where little speech is required. You get the benefit of consistent tone and volume throughout from the start, plus when any changes are made.

Thanks for sharing this, it has really put T2S back on my radar.

You're welcome! :)

I have been working on many courses lately with T2S because clients do not want to pay the added cost for professional voice over. It can get expensive in hurry and entails a lot more involvement by the client as they must approve the scripts first The cost of redos adds up quickly. As I reviewed your demo, nicely done by the way, I noticed the T2S speech could use a little polishing. As Paul stated they can sound very robotic. You need to add in the extra commas here and there to make Joanne take a breath. This will make it sound more natural and not a run on sentence. I have also used Joanne. Salli is also a nice alternative.

Thanks for the tip, Phil!

Allison,

Well done. I create CBLs for a medical system and the hardest part is convincing them not to put every single word of a policy into the learning. I'm going to use this as a model of how to shorten the content to make more meaningful learning.

Mike

I've been there! Hopefully they'll listen to reason after seeing this example. :)

If you don't focus on the essential that need to be learned there's no point creating a course, on any subject. People will lose interest, tune out or simply click their way through it as quickly as they can and then have a go at the quiz, if there's one until they get a pass - it won't change behaviour, they wont really learn anything and everyone has wasted their time, money and effort.
It becomes simply a tickthe box and learners soon realise that the business doesn't really care about whether they learn something or not.
But simplifying and culling doesn't equal engaging content, it's a start but I think there has to be more to retain their interest or you've come closer but never the less still failed.

The objectives are written at the high school level and this course is not 508 compliant. Very 2012ish