“When Rise AI Audio Has a Mind of Its Own…” 😄

I ran into a strange issue while creating AI audio in a Rise accordion. I couldn’t get any of the voices to pronounce all the words correctly. For example, vehicle was pronounced “Vladimir” in one voice and “vaccine” in another. There was no consistency from voice to voice—and, even stranger, Rise was adding words to my script that weren’t there. 🤔

I was getting ready to submit a support case when I wondered if the problem might not be with the AI voice itself, but with the accordion block.

I created a standalone Audio block using the same script. It worked—all but one word! Since I had copied and pasted the text, I deleted the “offending” word, typed it back in manually, and...it worked! 🎉

Now I had another problem: How do I get this working in the accordion? You can’t export and import the AI audio, so I tried copying and pasting the script from the standalone Audio block back into the accordion.

And for whatever reason...everything worked!

Who am I to question it? It worked! 😂

I don’t know if this trick will work for everyone or in every situation, but if you run into something similar, it might be worth a try.

I’m ending my Friday on a high note! Happy Friday! 🎉

Penny