Changing Speed of Audio in Articulate Storyline?

Edit the video in Windows Movie Maker. The 2012 version (and maybe others) allows you to speed videos up.  Save and import into Storyline.

Thanks Stacia for sharing that info here! 

This issue continues to increase in importance. The learner's ability to increase playback / progress speed in the player is an option we need to see added to Storyline in the near future. Editing the video before publishing (i.e., forcing the user into a specific playback speed) is not sufficient.

Many learners today want to be able to control that audio speed. This is a central issue to the concept of "self-paced" learning -- it's not a trivial matter.

Hi there, Ian.  Thanks for your thoughts.  Can you share your perspective in a feature request?  If you do, tell us a little more about specific use case where learners need to speed up or slow down audio.  Is it narration that learners need to speed up?  Is the seekbar on the player not a good solution for scrubbing through the timeline?

Thanks again for taking the time to share!

I haven't had the chance to see if this will work in Storyline, but can javascript be used for the same purpose as shown here for Captivate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgwS7DeMKo

Although this is only a solution for embedded videos and not the module itself. I'd like the player to have playback speed options. That would be an awesome feature.

Has anyone tried the javascript suggestion above?  Could someone at articulate explain detail of how and/or if this could work?

Subscribing to see what happens when you try it.

Hi Janet,

The use of custom JavaScript is not something that we support and it's not something I'm very savvy at to be able to share any thoughts of if this would work.

Hopefully someone in the community will be able to chime in and help you out here.

Does anyone know if I can slow down the speech a little? I use the text to speech feature which works well but it's very fast. Thanks. 

Hi Ilanna, 

It's not something available today, but I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request!

We would also love to see this request accommodated. Speeding up/slowing down both video and audio content is a feature users are increasingly familiar with and asking for--giving the user more control over their experience of going through a course.

So is it in the pipeline?

Hi Janet, 

We don't always know 'what's in the pipeline'.

I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests since that may be helpful. 

Sharing your feature request and use-case could be helpful to understand how you would like to utilize this as well.

This is a huge feature that needs to be included in Articulate 360.  I hear this from potential clients every week regarding our online training.  To such an extent, I have spent time looking for alternative software solutions.  Not anxious to re-train in something different, but definitely want to convey the importance of Articulate to incorporate the ability to increase audio playback speed.

Another vote for this. Our learners have been asking about the ability to change audio speed. We can't assume learners all hear and process the audio at the same speed, so some folks need it slower and some need it faster. Very important.

Its become so much more prevalent since most of the major podcast and audio apps on Android and iPhone have this ability. 

The seekbar is a good way to FIND a specific piece of audio. Its not good if you want to speed up the overall audio itself. To use an analogy - I look at using the seekbar like skipping a track on a CD. But I can't play the music track itself at 2x speed (so everyone sounds like Chipmunks, lol). 

Thanks, Susan and Concetta for sharing how this is impacting you and your course design. I know a few of the earlier folks in this discussion mentioned specifically needing more options when using our Text to Speech tools, it sounds like you're like this for any audio you import into Storyline too? 

Yes, we need the ability to increase audio speed on audio clips that we add into Articulate Storyline. We have professional narration that we incorporate into our training. While we are not currently using text-to-speech, I can definitely see the need there as well. The ability to increase speed is used significantly in education settings and to re-state my original post, we are being asked about this feature every week. I would love to hear back when we might expect to see this feature released. Thank you!

Absolutely agree!  The absence of that on feature is the only reason I've shifted all my production to a different product.  Please add this feature!

Thanks, Susan - it's really valuable insight. I'm not able to offer an ETA for this feature, but I've passed along the ideas here to our team. Our team uses the information here to help assess what features should be included in future updates and we'll keep you posted if this one is included in Storyline! 

Just subscribing to be kept in the loop. This feature is desperately needed.

Just submitted a feature request on this as well. Or is there an open request that we can just vote on (like how Canvas does it)? I work for Med School and med students go through most of our topics at 1.5x or 2x.

Hi Yuyen,

Thank you for submitting a feature request and sharing your use-case/need for this.

We do not have a voting system, but we do tag conversations in the forums and feature requests for our team so that we can track users requesting as well as an update when we can.

I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful. 

This thread is already attached and I'll be sure to add your request to the report as well :)

I also submitted a request for this feature.