Variable Playback Speed

Jun 17, 2016

We build our e-learning courses using Articulate Storyline. Recently, a number of our students have asked us if we can provide functionality of increasing the speed of the delivery, the provision that they have in Lynda courses and youtube videos.

So I was wondering there is a provision for the same in Articulate Storyline.

Thanks,

Payal

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Luciana Piazza
Staff

1 year ago01/24/23 at 3:15 pm (UTC)

Hello Everyone!

I'm happy to share that we have released Storyline 360 version 72 (Build 3.72.29654.0).

Included in this release is a new feature where you can let learners explore at their own pace by choosing a course playback speed between 0.25x and 2x.

Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.

Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.

Have a great day!

160 Replies

Kylee Barnard

almost 2 years ago05/13/22 at 1:26 pm (UTC)

I completely agree with Robert. Variable playback for videos only won't be much help. I need it applied to the whole timeline.

Alan Baertschi

almost 2 years ago05/13/22 at 1:34 pm (UTC)

Agreed. We need it for the whole project.

Parashuram Vhaval

almost 2 years ago05/18/22 at 8:05 am (UTC)

This discussion thread has a history of 6 years and still, this feature is yet to implement! with no clear visibility of when we will have it. Wow.

almost 2 years ago05/18/22 at 1:33 pm (UTC)

Yeah, Parashuram, I can't tell if they don't want to do it, or if they are unable to do it...

Paul Broekhof

almost 2 years ago06/17/22 at 12:34 pm (UTC)

For a topic that has been going on for more than 5 years, I am a bit surprised by the lack of response from the Articulate people. Variable playback speed is used by all experienced e-learning users, so why not have it in the Articulate player?

Luciana Piazza
Staff

almost 2 years ago06/21/22 at 2:47 pm (UTC)

Hello Everyone!

I'm happy to share that we have released Storyline 360 version 65 (Build 3.65.28121.0) today!

Included in this release is an enhancement where all learners are enabled to interact with videos via accessible controls that match the modern player style, exceed color contrast guidelines, and communicate perfectly with screen readers. Learners can even change the playback speed, switch to full-screen mode, and use picture-in-picture mode to move videos to a floating window.

Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.

Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.

Have a great day!

Mark Ramsey

almost 2 years ago06/21/22 at 3:57 pm (UTC)

This is good, but when will we see integrated video + timeline speed controls? I've published a kludgy way of handling the video speeds here, but it works outside the timeline. People have been asking for this for years.

Robert Lillywhite

almost 2 years ago06/22/22 at 8:04 am (UTC)

I hope that this is only a step towards variable playback speed for the whole project as this is of very limited use to us (we generally host our videos outside of the Storyline project).

It also makes the lack of overall playback speed more jarring to learners when they can control the playback speed of the videos but not the overall training.

almost 2 years ago06/23/22 at 2:19 pm (UTC)

The playback speed feature for the video is a great enhancement. It will be great if the speed feature is incorporated to the overall project as well. As part of the course navigation bar.

Stacy Johnson

almost 2 years ago06/28/22 at 12:08 pm (UTC)

Adding my vote to this request as well!

over 1 year ago08/04/22 at 5:59 pm (UTC)

I've updated to the latest version of Storyline, but I'm still not seeing the new accessible controls such as playback speed or full-screen mode. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Jose Tansengco
Staff

over 1 year ago08/04/22 at 8:19 pm (UTC)

Hi Kevin,

You'll need to enable the video controls for your video to access the new features.

Hope this helps!

over 1 year ago09/02/22 at 12:10 am (UTC)

Thank you very much for your contribution; however, I would like to know how I can add to the code so that the speed of the slide is saved and the next slide will respect the speed used in the previous slide.

Thanks Ali.

Fernando Rodriguez

over 1 year ago09/30/22 at 11:34 pm (UTC)

@JoeTansengco will this feature be set at the Shoryline Player Properties level?
Its awesome! that its finally added but its so hidden.

John Morgan
Staff

over 1 year ago10/03/22 at 2:11 pm (UTC)

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for your input on moving the video controls to the Storyline player properties! Currently, there are no plans to make that change. I'll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them in a feature request.

Mark Ramsey

over 1 year ago10/03/22 at 2:43 pm (UTC)

John, this is quite frustrating. Both Math and I have posted workarounds to this video speed issue, and this has been requested for years by all sorts of clients here. Captivate has the Fluidic player now— when would we be able to see something like that for Storyline?

over 1 year ago10/03/22 at 2:45 pm (UTC)

AGREE! We're also really looking forward to having this option!

Stacy

Ondrej Bartos

over 1 year ago10/05/22 at 4:36 am (UTC)

Hi, I would like to change the playback speed for training because a slide includes important information and Brian reads the text too fast.

Thanks

over 1 year ago10/05/22 at 7:54 am (UTC)

Text to speech in storyline (Brian) is done with Amazon Polly

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voicelist.html

@articulate developer there is a function to change the speed - please use the function

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voice-speed-vip.html

Two speed options are available to you when using SSML with Amazon Polly:

Preset speeds: x-slow, slow, medium, fast, and x-fast. In these cases, the speed of each option is approximate, depending on your preferred voice. The medium option is the normal speed of the voice.

n% of speech rate: any percentage of the speech rate, between 20% and 200% can be used. In these cases, you can choose exactly the speed you want. However, the actual speed of the voice is approximate, depending on the voice you've chosen. 100% is considered to be the normal speed of the voice.

over 1 year ago10/05/22 at 10:19 am (UTC)

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Ondrej Bartos
Product Support Engineer
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over 1 year ago10/05/22 at 3:48 pm (UTC)

Thank you for the Amazon Polly reference, Jurgen; I was not familiar with it.

You seem to say that an audio playback-speed function is available within Storyline ("@articulate developer . . . please use the function.") Is this something that could be activated when using Amazon Polly? Is it something existing that Articulate simply needs to turn on? Or are you requesting Articulate to add the audio playback-speed function using SSML provided by Amazon for Polly speed controls?

over 1 year ago10/13/22 at 5:40 pm (UTC)

Hi Marty, did you find a solution for the audio speed? I did all the solutions I found in this thread, but no luck.

Do you have anything new?

over 1 year ago10/13/22 at 6:05 pm (UTC)

Hi Mayra,

No solution yet for audio speed control within the timeline; only for audio within a video file (with the new Articulate update).

over 1 year ago10/14/22 at 2:03 pm (UTC)

Mayra,

Thanks for checking, but I did not ever get to my intended outcome.

The best I could achieve, before needing to move to other projects was to speed up a video file that is embedded on the page. For whatever reason, was never able to do just audio....

My thought, which I was not able to try, was to save an audio clip as an MP4 (that does not have "pictures," but don't know that this would have worked either.

I would still love to see if someone is able to achieve this and perhaps share a file that we may be able to use to re-create as needed for our personal usage.