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AI Voice Generators
Looking for feedback on AI voice generators - the good, the bad, the ugly. Those integrated into Storyline itself are not going to work for my business, so I'm wondering what others are using.
Got my AI Assistant today! Yay!
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I used Brian as my voice in the new AI Assistant feature. I love that it does sound like a real person speaking. I turned his voice emotions to about 25% - and its really impressive! Love the new feature! Well done Articulate!
I thought it isn't available yet because they just did a soft launch. How did you get AI Assistant?
I have no idea? I just did an update and bang it's there...good for blocking out topics tbf.
The sliders resemble those from Elevenlabs. I hope they work as well. Still waiting for my admin to toggle them on
I like Brian as well, what other voices do you like? I'll take more male, but I'm also trying to find females that don't sound robotic.
I too have not yet found a female voice that is suitable to our style, sounding trustworthy and not robotic. But I will keep "digging" :-)
I've been using Elevenlabs as it's been great so a variety of purposes.
It's my understanding that the AI voice generator SL is using is powered by Eleven Labs! The controls looks very similar
Is there going to be a price increase for using AI Assistant tools with a teams account??!!
what are you doing
The AI assistant is eleven labs voices
Got my AI Assistant today! Yay!
Hi! Our team is currently evaluating the AI Assistant features and so far, we’re pleased with them. The AI Assistant voices sound more natural; however, we have observed that the speaking rate can occasionally be somewhat rapid. I was informed that SSML tags can be used with the Standard out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices to adjust the speaking rate. And given that AI-generated voices are designed to naturally interpret word relationships, SSML tags cannot be applied to AI Assistant voices.
Are there any plans to enable the use of SSML tags with AI Assistant voices in the future?
We also found the need to (a) adjust the pace and (b) use SSML tags to adjust certain pronunciations when converting text to speech for our client eLearning courses, so we developed a tool using a Storyline front end that looks like this:
This allows us to cut and paste text (including SSML tags) into the text entry box, select a voice from the menu, adjust the pace and then, when the "Convert" button is clicked, we use a JavaScript trigger to pass the data over to a small node-js server-side app that calls Microsoft Azure AI Speech Services to do the text to speech conversion. The Storyline app reads out the text in the voice specified and offers the audio for download as an mp3 file.
Obviously you need an Azure account and a server to load the server-side app but it isn't that difficult to do. This produces a great result and saves us a heap of development time. We are pretty impressed with Microsoft's text-to-speech generative AI and, even though we use this all the time, we haven't yet exceeded our monthy free quota with Azure.
Thank you John!
Eleven Labs has an API that can access the voices created within their system. Does Storyline have plans to let us access that API so we can utilize the voices we've created?
