New Neural Text to Speech Voices from Amazon Polly
Oct 15, 2019
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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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It seems for English(US) that only Kevin, Ruth and Stephen are neural voices, the others seem to be using the standard profile.
Hello Shawn,
All the English(US) voices are neural voices in Update 80. By any chance were you updating a narration created in Update 79 or earlier? If so, try this, before you hit done, try making a change to the text (script), like putting an extra space at the end before hitting the Update button in the Insert Text-To-Speech dialog.
Please let me know how it goes,
Best,
Michael Marcos
Customer Support Product Liaison
Articulate Global LLC
Hi, I was just comparing some audio created in an older course, using the same source text in Update 80.
Hi, Shawn!
Thanks for confirming that. If you try Michael's suggestion of making a change to the text, and the voices don't seem to be updated, please let us know! You can reach out here or privately in a support case.
I am disappointed with the new voices in the version update. Why were the new options not simply added instead of apparently replacing the old voices? Our team is in the middle of a project and the new voices are too different from the old ones so we will have to stick with an older version of Storyline to keep consistency.
If there is another solution or something that I am missing please let me know. Currently we can't afford to go to new sounding voices (with same names) during the middle of production of training lessons. The new voices have noticeable changes in speed and tone vs. their old counterparts.
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!