Forum Discussion
Changing Speed of Audio in Articulate Storyline?
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!
Getting lots of complaints from medical students about Articulate. They can't speed up playback speed or grab text to make flash cards. Our students import everything into OneNote, as a repository for studying for big stakes exams (Step 1). I'm a little concerned that there are staff responding "if we make changes in this area, we'll let you know" after five years of complaints. I recently lobbied to get Articulate for our instructional designers because I believe in adaptive learning, the benefit of spaced repetition, and the testing effect. After a robust conversation with the sales department, it seems like it's crickets now. Vimeo, MedEd, Osmosis, and YouTube has a variable playback speed option. Can you offer more details about the logic for not adding this feature? The process of collecting feedback, analyzing it, and making choices about updates?
I second Cara's request to have more details on the exact status/decision. This is our first year using Articulate and we rolled out 22 Storyline topics (out of 70+ total in our course). In general our students have responded positively, but right off the bat, this was one of the requests/complaints we received. After our course finishes at the end of March, we'll be put on the spot to give a more specific answer (vs. the vague "I've already put in a feature request" that I gave at the time). So more information will be greatly appreciated.
On a side note (to Cara), could you share more of your or your students' experience with importing SL slides into OneNote? The workaround we provided was to publish the module in 2 formats, and post the Word file in Canvas for them as well. If there are better practices anyone is using, I would love to learn more!I'll echo Yuyen - we also provide a word file of the slides in the resources tab for our people to be able to use for notetaking, but we've gotten lots of requests for OneNote. If there's an easy way I can provide that to them I know my learners would love it!
