Adding more computer voices to Text-to-Speech

Sep 07, 2018

Hi,

I'd like to know if there's a way to add custom computer voices to A360 text-to speech, besides what is already available.

I'm looking for more natural voices and I've found a few I'd like to use.

Thanks for your help, cheers

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Kelly Auner
Staff

5 months ago12/13/23 at 2:37 pm (UTC)

Hi, everyone!

I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 83, we’ve included important fixes and new features!

One enhanced feature we’ve included:

Unlock new possibilities for text-to-speech audio. Use speech synthesis markup language (SSML) to adjust the speaking rate, modify pronunciation, emphasize words, add pauses, and more.

To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here!

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7 months ago09/21/23 at 5:43 pm (UTC)

Hello Rebecca!

Thanks for your feedback and submitting a feature request to convert all slide notes to text-to-speech with captions for Storyline 360! It’s not currently on our feature roadmap, but I’ll be sure to update this discussion if our team decides to reroute.

7 months ago09/21/23 at 5:52 pm (UTC)

Hi Graeme,

Thank you for sharing that adding more editing tools for text-to-speech in Storyline 360 would be helpful for you! We have this logged as an additional feature request, so I'll go ahead and include your voice. Here's a peek into our process for managing feature requests.

Kelly Auner
Staff

5 months ago12/13/23 at 2:37 pm (UTC)

Hi, everyone!

I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 83, we’ve included important fixes and new features!

One enhanced feature we’ve included:

Unlock new possibilities for text-to-speech audio. Use speech synthesis markup language (SSML) to adjust the speaking rate, modify pronunciation, emphasize words, add pauses, and more.

To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here!

5 months ago12/14/23 at 9:23 am (UTC)

This sounds very promising. I have a question about security.

The text we send to be processed - is this secure, are we guarenteed there will be no data leakage?

I work with company sensitive information which must not be used by any LLM or land up being searchable by any LLM.

Thus the security and privacy of the text I send for processing needs to be secure and never used any further.

5 months ago12/15/23 at 3:46 pm (UTC)

Hello Graeme,

Happy to chime in!

While we use a third-party service for our text-to-speech feature, we always make sure that the data sent to the service is always secured and protected.

Here's how we handle the security and privacy of your data for Articulate 360:

Articulate 360: The Security and Privacy of Your Data

Let me know if you have any questions!