Text to speech speed

I agree with all, Storyline needs some method to slow down the text-to-speech narrations. I use Amazon Polly with its SSML coding to create text-to-speech narrations.

I assume you are referring to computer-generated speech when you talk about speeding up/slowing down the text-to-speech.  Do you find that computer generated speech holds your users' attention sufficiently?

Barry,
I use images, videos, and Doodly to tell short stories and case studies at a nursing college. Yes, it keeps the students’ attention.
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I don’t know that the attention is the issue, the issue is it is taking a ton of time inputting punctuation to slow the text to speech down. All of the choices for text to speech at time speak way to fast, users are needing to rewind to make sure they are hearing them properly. It would help to have some kind of slider that creators could slow the speech down were needed.

I hope that makes sense. Looking at the community discussions, it seems I’m not the only one having this issue.

If there is some way this could be addressed it would be appreciated!

Thanks!

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I'm looking at this thread and some comments are 2 years ago and Articulate has yet to address the text to speech speed issue.  Please fix this issue.

Same here. This issue has been raised 3 years ago, and still no feature update from Articulate. I receive so many comments regarding the speed of narration, that it needs to be slowed down.

I know this thread is years old, but I am still looking to adjust the speed of the narration. Has there been any advancement on that?

Hi GlobalFinance,

Are you looking to adjust the speed as the author or would like the learners to have this ability? We have requests for each of these features, so I want to be sure I update appropriately.

Definitely for the learners!!! What's the purpose of allowing speed change for the authors??????

When I put in the request, it was for Authors that create the WBT, to be able to slow down the text to speech. You can use periods, commas, and more spaces to help control the pace of the speech – but at times the voice still speaks to fast to be clearly understood.
Thank you!

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Ideally for both. When I first started using text to speech I felt it went to fast and was using periods and commas ALOT. After I have made a few courses I am now being asked by the Learners for this control. I have a few that know the material and want to zoom through and I have a few that are not native speaking English and need it to be even slower.

I think we're mixing up playback speed control (for the learners) with speech control (pausing, resting, punctuation) for the authors

I think the priority for the developers should be to allow the learner to set the speed of the entire course (.5X, .75X, 1X, 1.25X, 1.5X, etc.). Some users need it slower for comprehension, many would like to speed it up for attention. Thank you, would really appreciate it, Articulate.

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I would say that this is primarily for me as the creator, for me I prefer to use an alternative software to create my text to speech as it gives me the ability to slow down or speed up the voices and this helps when trying to tie in narration to activity on the screen. The alternative software also gives me the ability to change the tone of the voice from friendly to formal which is also a great option when creating elearnings that have narration and conversation sections.

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I would prefer to have the ability to change the speed as the creator.  Most Users do not have the savvy to be able to adjust the speed themselves.  We have about 700 employees that are potential Users for these modules and would be more helpful to allow the creator to adjust the speed before you start working on allowing Users to.  Also it looks like 'occasionally' the voice will have an inflection after a question mark.  It would be wonderful if that worked all the time as well as other inflections for other punctuation.   Thanks for your help. 

My top priority is that the learner needs the ability to change the speed.  I have native english speakers that want it faster, and english as a second language speakers that prefer a slower speed. I want to give them control over the speed to meet their learning needs.  I currenly provide the transcript in the notes section for them to read in case the audio is too fast/slow for them.

As a creator, however, i'd like that ability as well, i've spent many hours tweaking and "tricking" the text to speech to pronounce and have the cadence i need! 

I would love to see Articulate improve their Text to Speech capabilities to keep up with advancements in voices and features. I don't use the built in Storyline TTS anymore, though it is convenient. The voices are not the best and I want something a bit better.  I use Microsoft Azure Neural voices now (which are excellent) or Amazon Neural Voices for some projects. There is a great tool called HeroVoice TTS (in the Microsoft Store) made by an e-learning guy that is a standalone Window App that allows you to access voices from Google, Microsoft and Amazon. You can adjust a lot of things with it. You do need to set up some developer accounts with the major players though, but it is not hard.

Rick, we use Articulate's TTS for development purposes, then swap out the narration at the end. Our team just received access to WellSaid Labs and are very excited to start using it. The tool provides more than 20 different voices so there's a lot of options, depending on your narration needs.  

Nice! I've seen that product. I just use MS Azure Text to Speech services and their Speech Studio. The new Neural voices are incredible. It has a great editor where you can adjust a wide range of things.

WellSaid looks amazing!  Any chance articulate could integrate something like that in their software?  The voices on this sound so much  more lifelike. 

I've just started WellSaidLabs as well and absolutely love it. Audio files are super easy to integrate into Storyline.

Do we have the capability to slow down the TTS yet? I got feedback from the user for my recent project, they like everything but the TTS is too fast.