Changing Speed of Audio in Articulate Storyline?

I would also like to request this feature. Many of our users seem to need ability to speed up the audio. If it serves as a means to "up vote" this request, i am happy to submit yet another feature request.

Commenting to see new replies in this thread. I submitted this as a feature request back in April of 2018. This is becoming more and more of an expectation of our products from our learners. 

While this may not be ideal as a solution, but has anyone considered creating different versions of your audio/video, of various speeds, and having a selector somewhere allow the learner to select something like "slower" "normal" or "faster"

Then on each slide that leads to a piece of audio, read the variable setting and jump to a slide of that speed. If they are on a slide and want to change speed mid-stream, a variable could be read when the variable changes and load the appropriate slide that contains audio/video of that speed.

Just a thought. In general, we avoid audio for reasons such as this. Without having a dynamic way to control speed, everyone listens a the same speed so it is a limiting factor.

Adding my vote for this feature as well. Once of our most common comments for our Storyline training is that learners wish they could speed up the playback.

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?

Hi everyone,

The feedback you've shared here is valuable, and I can understand your need for this kind of feature. We take all of this into consideration as we prioritize and plan for future enhancements. A feature that would allow learners to speed up or slow down content playback is not on our immediate roadmap; however, if we add this feature in a future update of Storyline 360, we promise to keep you updated. 

Thanks for continuing to add your thoughts, folks!

I'm going to share the additional insight with our product team. As Alyssa mentioned, it really helps us understand the need. If this feature gets added to a future update, this discussion will be the first to know!

I submitted a request for this, too.
To give some perspective of how long we've been asking for this, when this thread started, Barack Obama was president, we were all doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West weren't even married yet.

I hope this feature is built in the next update.

I used following code in my execute javascript trigger and works fine.

var myAudio = document.getElementsByTagName("audio")[0];

myAudio.playbackRate = .5; // Change this value to 2 for double speed.

The problem here is you can not sync any animation with this audio. When the audio speed changes, the timeline remains same. Having said that, if you have any static image on the slide and audio associated to it, then only use this code.

Thanks

Yes!  Having the ability to let the learner control playback speed would be a great feature to add!  Any updates on this?