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MarcosDutra's avatar
MarcosDutra
Community Member
7 years ago

Audio is corrupted after editing text-to-speech

Every time I try to edit something in the text-to-speech text box (after first generation of the audio), I get corrupted audio, with something like a weird echo. The solution is to delete the whole ...
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ThorMelicher-b5
Community Member
6 years ago

I’m not sure if this will help but I did write an application that may streamline your process just a bit.  It’s a bit of a workaround though as you’ll have to go to the source that Storyline uses, Amazon Polly voices. 

Here’s what you do: 

  1. Get an Amazon Polly account (yes, there is some cost involved but doesn’t seem that prohibitive) (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/)
  2. Save your scripts as separate files (MS-Word or Text)
  3. Download HeroVoice TTS from the Microsoft Windows Store (fully functioning 15-day free trial)
  4. Encode your files with HeroVoice TTS – apply a global setting for speed and even comma duration so your files are consistent.
  5. Select the voice you want – these are the same as you’ll find in Storyline today including Neural voices (which aren’t currently available in Storyline)
  6. Load each audio file into Storyline