Import New Text-To-Speech Options?

Hi Madeline!

We haven't released any new voices for Text to Speech in Storyline 360 yet. I'm interested to hear how other community members use and find Text to Speech voices.

Although Storyline doesn’t support Neural voices inside of Storyline yet (which are higher quality voices by Amazon Polly which is used by Storyline), I have created an application that can help streamline the process: 

1. You’ll need an Amazon Polly account (yes, there is some cost involved but doesn’t seem that prohibitive) (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/)
2. Save your scripts to be encoded as separate files (MS Word or Text)
3. Download HeroVoice TTS from the Microsoft Windows Store (fully functioning 15-day free trial)
4. Encode your files with HeroVoice TTS
5. Load each audio file into Storyline

HeroVoice TTS supports many of the requests that I’ve seen on the Storyline forums:

• Adjust the overall speed of your files with one setting
• Adjust the overall pause duration for commas
• Add your own SSML to get more finer nuanced, naturally sounding results
• Neural voices
• Batch process your files 

Will there be more polished TTS voice options in the future? I also received input from stakeholders who wish to have a more natural sounding voice.

Hello Linda! 

We don't have any updates at this time.  We appreciate your feedback on this feature request! We'll be sure to update this thread when we have any news to share on any changes to our Text to Speech voice selections. 

Have a great start to your week! 

Hello,

I'd like to piggy back on requesting more voices for Text to Speech. I appreciate this feature and I have been using this feature more because of its convenience. But I wish there was more variety and diversity in the voice offerings. It would be great to have a selection of voices that reflects the diversity of the character library.

I was looking at Amazon Polly as suggested above and it looks like Articulate uses the same voices - is that true?

yes - storyline uses Amazon Polly

Hello, Everyone!  

I'm happy to share that we have released a new update for Storyline 360 (v3.80.30988.0.).

In this update, we included an enhancement for:

• Support for NTTS or Neural Voices

Please update to the latest version of Storyline 360 to see this improvement. Here's how:

Update Authoring Apps

If you have any questions, please let us know in this thread or privately in a support case.

Have a great day! 

Hi Joe, 

Is there anyway I could hear what they sound like before i update. specifically a UK voice?

Thanks

Hi Steven,

Thanks!