arabic text to speech

Hello Karim,

There's currently not an Arabic text-to-speech option, but that would make a great feature request! Specifically, which version(s) of spoken Arabic would you need? It would be helpful if you included that detail in the request. Thanks for reaching out!

hello Alyssa,

thank you for your reply, I'm sorry I didn't get what you mean about the Arabic version.

Regards

I'm sorry for the confusion, Karim. Because different dialects are spoken in different countries, we want to get a sense of which dialects are most needed. To clarify, what country are your learners from? 

Hi all - just to add to this thread. My organization is looking for text to speech 
Arabic as well. Global - no particular country. We are soooo wishing you had this.

Hi All,

I'm happy to inform you that Storyline's text-to-speech feature now has an Arabic voice, Zeina.

You're correct, Amine! Thanks for popping in to share with everyone.

You can check out the release notes here. 

Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for Storyline 360. Details here.

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

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to adapt course translated to Arabic and use Arabic text to speech. I adjusted the player and set right to left text direction, however I'm not able to align text in text to speech to tread from right to left. Arabic voice Zeina will still read the text, however this causes confusion and potential issues with punctuation and subsequently the meaning is lost .

Could you please help?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Petar!

You'll find the right-to-left button on the Home tab of the Storyline ribbon, but it'll only show if you have a right-to-left keyboard input language installed on your computer.

Have you already made this change? I'm happy to take a look at your file! You can share it in this discussion by using the "add attachment" button. Or if you prefer to share the file privately, use this link and our Support Engineers will look into the snag!

Hi Lauren,

Thank you for replying.

I'm not allowed to share files publicly due to confidentiality reasons. I will however share file privately via the link above you provided.

I do have right-to-left keyboard input language installed on my PC and had no issues with Arabic text alignment in Notes or slides. However, in TTS screen left-to.right seems to be the only option and I'm not able to change it (right-to-left button on home tab is visible but as read only).

Hope this helps.

Thank you once again for your help on this.

Best,

Petar

Hello, Petar. Appreciate you sending in your file privately for troubleshooting!

For those following along who might be facing a similar problem: We were able to reproduce this and logged Arabic text is not reading in RTL direction when using Text-to-Speech as a possible bug in Storyline 360.

Thank you for your help in bringing this to our attention. I'll tag this discussion so we can share any new developments here, too!