Is there a way to get the text to speech option to read the contents of a variable? For example the First name captured in a previous screen collected variable?
Not with the built-in TTS feature. The 360 feature is for generation at authoring time.
However, if you wanted to tinker a bit with online services (Amazon Polly, https://responsivevoice.org/,https://www.vocalware.com/) you could certainly feed dynamic text into an engine and have that play back in real time.
Thanks for reaching out and letting us know you'd like to see real-time text to speech as a feature. Do you mind sharing a bit more on how you'll use it in a course?
You can do that here, or also provide more details through a feature request!
I would use it to have text entry variables read back to the user in real time. Specifically I'm developing a scenario base ungraded question that has the learner answer a "why" question with an entry text block and then displaying their answer next to the established answer and allowing them to compare the two. What I would like is to have a text-to-speech read their answer back to the learner before my narrator reads the correct answer back to them, that way they hear both.
This feature would really help for high level eLearning.
Real-time text to speech is a great idea for a feature request and others think so too! A feature request has already been submitted for this. This conversation is being linked to that request, so if it makes it onto our feature roadmap, we’ll make sure to update you!
Thanks for sharing the feedback on the type of functionality you'd like to see in Storyline!
I've included you in the feature report and will update this discussion as soon as we have news to share! If you'd like to stay up to date, you can bookmark our Feature Roadmap.
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No the voice is not generated in real time.
Not with the built-in TTS feature. The 360 feature is for generation at authoring time.
However, if you wanted to tinker a bit with online services (Amazon Polly, https://responsivevoice.org/, https://www.vocalware.com/) you could certainly feed dynamic text into an engine and have that play back in real time.
I would also like real time text to speech, where the text to speech will change based on the assigned variable text value.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for reaching out and letting us know you'd like to see real-time text to speech as a feature. Do you mind sharing a bit more on how you'll use it in a course?
You can do that here, or also provide more details through a feature request!
Hi Ren,
Thanks for getting back to me :)
I would use it to have text entry variables read back to the user in real time. Specifically I'm developing a scenario base ungraded question that has the learner answer a "why" question with an entry text block and then displaying their answer next to the established answer and allowing them to compare the two. What I would like is to have a text-to-speech read their answer back to the learner before my narrator reads the correct answer back to them, that way they hear both.
This feature would really help for high level eLearning.
Good morning,
I was wondering if there were any updates on Daniel's question. Is there a way to have the fabulous "Joanna" read a learner's name in real time?
Hi Michele,
Real-time text to speech is a great idea for a feature request and others think so too! A feature request has already been submitted for this. This conversation is being linked to that request, so if it makes it onto our feature roadmap, we’ll make sure to update you!
Thanks for reaching out!
Just chiming in about how awesome it would be to have a character be able to speak a user's name.
Hi Diane!
Thanks for sharing the feedback on the type of functionality you'd like to see in Storyline!
I've included you in the feature report and will update this discussion as soon as we have news to share! If you'd like to stay up to date, you can bookmark our Feature Roadmap.
Have a great day!