Text to Voice issue
Apr 08, 2020
By
Norma Kaplan
This is the sentence: "After the individual commodities are classified, the area of high- piled storage is designated. A high-piled storage area is a space within a building that is designated, intended, proposed or used for high-piled combustible storage. "
I'm using "Matthew" and he pronounces "piled" correctly until the end of the sentence (where I have it highlighted and bold). I run into glitches where I can change a word or spell it phonetically, but I'm stumped with this. It has to said as written. What can I do? Thanks!
8 Replies
Hi Norma!
Thank you for attaching the sound file! I was able to copy the text into a new project and add the same text-to-speech interaction. I heard the exact same glitch you mentioned. The first two times Matthew reads "high-piled" it's read correctly, and the last time it sounds like "high-biled".
We do have a bug logged for this type of glitch when using Matthew for text-to-speech. I'm going to add your comments to the report so we can continue investigating.
I appreciate you bringing this to our attention! I'll make sure to report back when I have more information.
Lauren, thank you! That will be helpful. In the meantime, I parsed the sentences where Matthew mispronounced "high-piled." I recorded "high-piled..." on its own and put them in order. So it works and only sounds like Matthew pauses.
A few other words Matthew has a problem with are: uses, address, separate (just off the top of my head).
Thank you for these extra details! I'll make sure to include them.
Stay safe!
One more very important issue that I fogot about are words ending with "ing."
Try out this sentence and you'll see what I mean:
"Tire buffing operations must be located in a room separated from the remainder of the building housing the tire rebuilding or tire recapping operations by a 1-hour fire barrier."
Thanks!
Hi Norma!
I'm not sure I understand what the issue is with words ending with "-ing"
Would you mind explaining how those words are read by Text to Speech voice, Matthew?
If the word "building" is at the end of a sentence, he says "buildang."
The sentence is "Building materials go into the building." Listen to how he pronounces "building" differently in this sentence. It happens a lot with the "ing.'
Hi Norma,
Thank you for the clarification! We are continuing to look into this and I will be sure to add those notes to our report.
Please let us know if you notice anything else!
Hi, Norma.
I just wanted to share that we are no longer seeing the bug reported where the text to speech voice Matthew pronounces the same word differently using the latest build of Storyline (3.61.27106.0).
If you're using the latest version and you're still experiencing this issue, please reach out to our support team through a case.