I am still a newbie with storyline and I am trying to do a voice-over for one of my courses. I would like to have both a male and female voice over. I already know how to do it for one but was wondering if anyone can help in explaining both? How users can choose? and which one is played automatically when the timeline starts?
Assuming once the learner makes the choice, that they will then hear that specific voice for the rest of the course(?) If so, you would setup two scenes. Just copy all of the slides from scene to the other and simply swap out the audio. So, essentially you have two identical scenes, one with a male voice and one with a female voice. Then you could just have a menu page where the learner makes the choice and that choice navigates them to one of the two scenes.
My apologies...if you need to update content then you'll be updating in two places. There's a better way. You can setup two variables. One variable for the male voice and one variable for the female voice. When a choice is made (e.g, choosing a character), the variable will update to true. A trigger on each slide (e.g, play media 'MaleVoiceAudio' when timeline starts if 'MaleVoiceVariable' is true). Or conversely, play media 'FemaleVoiceAudio' when timeline starts if 'FemaleVoiceVariable' is true.
That really seems helpful. Would you be able to provide me with few steps on how to create that variable for the sound icon? Since I am a newbie with Storyline, this is a little hard for me. When inserted the audio, the little sound (speaker) icon was automatically created at the bottom and I don't know how to add a second sound icon. So, if you can just provide me with few steps to start with, it would really helpful.
Unfortunately, I was not able to open the file. It says the file has features that are not supported by my version. I am using story-line 3 and I guess the file might be articulate 360. Yet, the video should certainly help me anyways.
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Assuming once the learner makes the choice, that they will then hear that specific voice for the rest of the course(?) If so, you would setup two scenes. Just copy all of the slides from scene to the other and simply swap out the audio. So, essentially you have two identical scenes, one with a male voice and one with a female voice. Then you could just have a menu page where the learner makes the choice and that choice navigates them to one of the two scenes.
My apologies...if you need to update content then you'll be updating in two places. There's a better way. You can setup two variables. One variable for the male voice and one variable for the female voice. When a choice is made (e.g, choosing a character), the variable will update to true. A trigger on each slide (e.g, play media 'MaleVoiceAudio' when timeline starts if 'MaleVoiceVariable' is true). Or conversely, play media 'FemaleVoiceAudio' when timeline starts if 'FemaleVoiceVariable' is true.
Thanks Doug Mattson,
That really seems helpful. Would you be able to provide me with few steps on how to create that variable for the sound icon? Since I am a newbie with Storyline, this is a little hard for me. When inserted the audio, the little sound (speaker) icon was automatically created at the bottom and I don't know how to add a second sound icon. So, if you can just provide me with few steps to start with, it would really helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Hi Jalal,
I've attached a working sample for you. It's not very fancy. I'll try to record a quick explainer vid as well to show you how it's setup.
Thanks Doug Mattson,
I am looking forward to the video. Thanks again for your help :)
Best,
Unfortunately, I was not able to open the file. It says the file has features that are not supported by my version. I am using story-line 3 and I guess the file might be articulate 360. Yet, the video should certainly help me anyways.
Hi Balen,
Update 3 of Storyline 3 should allow you to open files created in Storyline 360! Can you take a look at installing that update?
Hi Balen,
I finally was able to do that recording. The recording covers how to setup the variables and triggers in order to play one of the two audio tracks but doesn't cover how to setup two audio tracks. Here is a link on how to setup the audio tracks: https://community.articulate.com/series/74/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-add-audio
Here is link on how to setup the variables and triggers: https://www.screencast.com/t/nd95dJQi9qnK
Doug
Thanks Doug for sharing this! I'm certain it'll help others too.
Thanks. That is fantastic.
Thanks Ashley, for the update. :)
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