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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!
- PatriciaDent-fcCommunity Member
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?
- JohnCooper-be3cCommunity Member
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.
- PatriciaDent-fcCommunity Member
Thank you John!
- ClaraWinslowCommunity Member
Got my AI Assistant today! Yay!
- PhilMayorSuper Hero
The AI assistant is eleven labs voices
- raoCommunity Member
what are you doing
- BrianCookCBCommunity Member
Is there going to be a price increase for using AI Assistant tools with a teams account??!!
- JPMcreativeCommunity Member
I've been using Elevenlabs as it's been great so a variety of purposes.
- BrianCookCBCommunity Member
It's my understanding that the AI voice generator SL is using is powered by Eleven Labs! The controls looks very similar
- IrisSchlabitzCommunity Member
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!
- AndreaJacobs864Community Member
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.
- IrisSchlabitzCommunity Member
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" :-)
- BrianCookCBCommunity Member
The sliders resemble those from Elevenlabs. I hope they work as well. Still waiting for my admin to toggle them on
- ClaraWinslowCommunity Member
I thought it isn't available yet because they just did a soft launch. How did you get AI Assistant?
- IrisSchlabitzCommunity Member
Only update your Articulate App. In RISE you will already see it!
- NedimCommunity Member
1. ElevenLabs
2. Murf
The AI Assistant looks promising. - NormaJohnson-4bCommunity Member
Murf is also an option, but I tried out the new voices in the AI Assistant. They are pretty good. There are 49 options to choose from.
- olivier_alfieriCommunity Member
Hi, just buy th AI storyline. I'm not abble to find the french natural voice with the new AI. I can't believe that the french voices are missing. Is it way i don't understand to have the french voices?