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GeorgeMoureau's avatar
GeorgeMoureau
Community Member
5 years ago

Better AI for text to voice in Storyline 360

Our company does medical training products, hence medical terminology. The AI that comes with 360 struggles with these and other phrases to the point that I have to trick it with weird spellings to ...
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  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    11 months ago

    Hi, everyone!

    I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 83, we’ve included important fixes and new features!

    One enhanced feature we’ve included:

    Unlock new possibilities for text-to-speech audio. Use speech synthesis markup language (SSML) to adjust the speaking rate, modify pronunciation, emphasize words, add pauses, and more.

    To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here!

ElyseSmith-0e4a's avatar
ElyseSmith-0e4a
Community Member
2 years ago

Have there been any updates on this request? We are now having to use WellSaid for voice overs as Storyline TTS voices are too robotic. Looking forward to any enhancements!

  • Mike_Marcos's avatar
    Mike_Marcos
    Staff
    2 years ago

    Hi Elyse and Katia, 

    I just wanted to share some news about Storyline 360 Update 80. This update might be interesting for you since you’ve explored other options to improve the quality of TTS. In update 80, we have taken advantage of Amazon Polly’s neural text to speech feature. You will see better versions of most of the voices when inserting TTS audio. These will show up in the same place as the standard voices, under “Neural Voices”. These are voices that sound more natural and human-like and are considerably higher in quality compared to the older standard TTS voices.

    A list of these voices can be found  here. Updating Storyline 360 to the latest version is super easy, here is the guide in case anyone needs it.

    We will continue to keep tabs on requests to support ways to control emphasis, speaking rate, inserting silence, pronunciation and SSML support in general. Please let me know of any feedback (good or bad), around this enhancement and we’ll be happy to pass it along to our dedicated team of engineers. 

    All the best,
    Michael Marcos
    Customer Support Product Liaison

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