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Can I slow down the audio voice selected in Storyline 360?
I am using one of the audio voice pre-loaded in Storyline 360 and it seems they are all speaking very fast. Is there a way to slow their speech?
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 of the new features 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.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!
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Hi Jenny,
Welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community!✨
In the Storyline version 65 update, we released an enhancement where all learners are enabled to interact with videos via accessible controls that match the modern player style, exceed color contrast guidelines, and communicate perfectly with screen readers. This includes the ability to change the playback speed, switch to full-screen mode, and use picture-in-picture mode to move videos to a floating window.
We have a separate feature request logged specifically for the learner to be able to adjust the playback speed of the player so that audio narration can be consumed faster or slower. I'll be sure to add your comments to the case and update you on our progress. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us!
This is great news, and much needed. Thanks for the update!
Best Regards,
Jeffrey H. (Jeff) Harden
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Hi Kelly,
Thank you and thanks for this update.
To make sure I understand, you are saying that the user has controls to speed up or slow down the speed/tempo? Would I have access to that just looking on a published 360 Review version?
Where specifically would i tell the learners to access these controls?
I have now looked at the Player, the browser options, and I do not seem to find any of these features that you are discussing. I have an up-to-date Articulate Storyline subscription. Please advise, thanks.
Can you provide a screenshot of the location and how to set up?i really appreciate the feedback as we are doing user testing this coming week.
Jenny
this is the new videoplayer with the speed control
https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-Accessible-Video-Controls
Hi Jozsef!
It looks like your response was cut off. This can happen when replying by email, but you can try posting here in the forum! I'm happy to help address any questions you may have.
Hi Kelly, yes, thanks, indeed I tried to reply by email and it looks like the link cause problem.
Anyway, here comes my question.regarding
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In the Storyline version 65 update, we released an enhancement where all learners are enabled to interact with videos via accessible controls that match the modern player style, exceed color contrast guidelines, and communicate perfectly with screen readers. This includes the ability to change the playback speed, switch to full-screen mode, and use picture-in-picture mode to move videos to a floating window.
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This is great news. But is it necessary to re-publish existing material to benefit from the new features?
Thanks,
JózsefKeep in mind that for now this is only an update for changing the speed of embedded video in Storyline. All other timed elements ( motion paths, entrance animations etc. ) on the Storyline timeline are not aware of the change of speed.
Also watch that the video control bar now will cover the lower part of your video, before the controls showed below the video, thus covering nothing in your video. And its higher then the old video controls. And this all is only true for the Modern Player, the Classic Player uses the old behaviour as before.Thank you for showing and for clarifying! So this is Not for the actual Storyline module playback itself, only for imported videos iinto Storyline. Well that's nice, but not at all what I'm looking for or need at this point. I really appreciate you letting me know, as I was about to tell my client it was doable, and now I see it really isn't. Maybe in the future? Best wishes, Jenny
This has been a requested feature for several years. Is there a production path for this feature improvement?
You're missing the point. We - the author - want to manage the speed as we GENERATE the speech from text! WE want to dictate the speed as it's created, NOT adjust it at the user end (the player side)! A better text-to-speech engine is what we want - one with the ability to apply emphasis, etc.
>We - the author - want to manage the speed as we GENERATE the speech from text!
this should be ease, storyline uses - as far as I know* - Amazon Polly for text to speech
and here is the function to change the speed (for the articulate developer)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/voice-speed-vip.html
Two speed options are available to you when using SSML with Amazon Polly:
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Preset speeds:
x-slow,slow,medium,fast, andx-fast. In these cases, the speed of each option is approximate, depending on your preferred voice. Themediumoption is the normal speed of the voice. -
n% of speech rate: any percentage of the speech rate, between 20% and 200% can be used. In these cases, you can choose exactly the speed you want. However, the actual speed of the voice is approximate, depending on the voice you've chosen. 100% is considered to be the normal speed of the voice.
* TCP Connection: Storyline.exe <-> Articulate 360 Desktop Service <-> Amazon Cloudfront
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100% agree with Marc - the request is for the *creator* to be able to adjust the text-to-speech speed. This would be a one-time adjustment, vs every single user being expected to not only know how to adjust the playback speed, but to actually do it for every single piece of text-to-speech audio in a single course. It is incredibly more efficient for the creator to just do this once and be done.
Agreed - we, the creator need the capability!. It would be nice to have this ability all from within Storyline and not have to use another source and deal with transcript notes, downloading mp3 files, then importing - very time consuming .!
Jeffrey H. (Jeff) Harden
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Absolutely, agreed!
Moving this up as I have been needing this function for quite some time, and apparently so has many of the other users. The text to speech function is great to have but only if it is slow enough for the learners to actually have time the time to hear and retain the words that are being spoken. Currently with the audio it creates people tend to have to re-watch every section multiple times to actually hear and retain all of it due to the rate of speed the text to speech audio produces.
Hi Nick,
Thanks for reaching out!
We don't have any news at this time, but we'll be sure to update this thread when there are updates to share! You can see what our Engineers are currently working on within our Feature Roadmap.
Have a great start to your day!
Hello Everyone!
I'm happy to share that we have released Storyline 360 version 72 (Build 3.72.29654.0).
Included in this release is a new feature where you can let learners explore at their own pace by choosing a course playback speed between 0.25x and 2x.
Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Have a great day!
FABULOUS! I've been waiting for this for a long time!
Sorry, but you’ve missed the point – AGAIN.
NOT on the play-back end!
Slow it down on the CREATION side: the Text-to-Speech engine!!
You just need a more robust TTS!No need to be rude.
Thanks,
Jenny
Agreed with prior commenters - this is not what was being requested. As the creator of the course, I need the ability to adjust the speed on speech-to-text so it is not speaking too quickly.
This should be something that I can do as the creator, so learners do not have to rewind the course to catch all the information, or try to figure out how to adjust the speech speed (which let's be honest - many can't/won't), or the most likely result - they will simply miss that information.
The course should require no changes on behalf of the learner. I should be doing all of that on the front end and able to make sure the speed is appropriate when I publish the course.
Thank you for this Morgan!
I understand that this discussion is mostly around the capability to adjust the playback speed for TTS voices, but a handful of ELH members in this thread have also asked for variable playback speed on the learner side and this is why we chose to share what Update 72 offers here. Rest assured we are aware that the variable player speed is not a solution to the TTS-related use cases and are still keeping track of folks asking for this.
I will continue to advocate the need to improve TTS functionality on everyone's behalf. Your continuous participation in our community is invaluable in bringing to light the problems that we need to solve.
Sincerely,Michael Marcos
Customer Support Product Liaison
