Text to speech speed

Hi Sherry,

I'm trying to use AWS Polly as per your suggestion.

I have one question though: are close captions available even with imported audio files?

Thanks  much easier than manually adding each space.  Would love it if you could control the speed in one step

Hi Tracy,

A number of folks have submitted feature requests asking for additional Text to Speech editing features. 

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Any update on if we are able to adjust the speed of the TTS narrator? Thanks.

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Please let me know if I can help with anything else.

P.S. The tag for slowing down the speaking rate in the AWS Polly Console is <prosody>.

Thanks. But I do not quite understand... What does the "AWC Polly Console <prosody> mean"? Is this something I can add to Storyline 360 to slow down the TTS speed?

I also look forward to more robust editing features for Storyline 360 text-to-speech. Commenting to be subscribed for updates. Thanks!

Hi there, I am also asking about text to speech but I would like to know if it will be added to Rise at all? Thank you.

Hi, Sally. It looks like Allison is adding you to our feature request for text-to-speech in Rise!

Just spent some time mucking around with the Storyline 360 TST and the following seems to be true. I used Salli's voice, but it looked to be the same on other voices.

It's not perfect, but something to work with. These should immediately follow text. They haven't been tested extensively:

• Comma [,] = 1/4 sec silence (works even if not followed by a space)
• Period [.] = 1/2 sec silence (must be followed by a space)
• Period [.], [Return] = 3/4 sec silence
• Period [.], [Return], [Return] = 5/8 sec silence
• Period [.], [Return], Caret [^], Asterisk [*], Open Bracket [(], [Return] = 1 1/8 sec silence

Anyone come up with any other combinations?

Cheers,

CC

These are great cheat codes! Thanks for sharing!

I agree - being able to control the speed of the voice would be a great feature. That's one of the biggest reasons I prefer not to use Text to Speech, but have to for development purposes.

Thank you so much Clint for the cheats!!! I have been using Polly in AWS but it is cumbersome. Really think these codes will be helpful!

Es ist heutzutage ganz normal, die Geschwindigkeit für "Text to Speech" einzustellen.

I agree, Jack.

We are monitoring the user requests for additional features and this conversation is attached.

We will share any updates that we have with you here.

The spacing keys are limited in helpfulness in slowing things down. and if you are trying to have closed captioning for ADA compliance it is a nightmare. And any changes made to the test is a pain to deal with. There needs to be a better way. I would prefer to use the text to speech as then if someone leaves your facility you dont need to rerecord an entire course if one section changes and you want the consistency. This is not really a viable feature as is.

Thank you for this awesome information :-)

Please count my voice too for control on slowing down. Thank you.

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I've been struggling with making the voice sound less robotic as well. There has to be an easier way than adding alot of commas, periods, and spaces.

Thanks!

Thanks for these tips Clint. 

I have had to resort to using an external TTS engine for mine now, which I hate to do, because otherwise Articulate's is great.  I like the voices, the way they sound, the ability to make changes easily, but they just speak too quickly for my audiences.  I found a free engine that has 20 speed options, but making a file there and importing it isn't ideal, especially when changes need to be made. 

I think the number of responses to these threads is evidence that it is a worthwhile enhancement!  I appreciate the forum for requesting this, and that it has given us an opportunity to share the timing 'hacks', which has been quite helpful, but since I have to give a lot of information to a crowd for whom English is not their first language, I really need that ability to have the audio track play slowly and clearly.

Just so the chorus keeps getting stronger - 'Text-to-speech' speed alteration feature would be a great addition to Storyline!

I am interested in being able to adjust the speed of the narration as well.