Forum Discussion
Changing Speed of Audio in Articulate Storyline?
I'm working on creating some Articulate Storyline projects for a class I teach. Our current videos are MUCH less engaging and interactive and are simply the professor in front of a web camera lecturing. One things students LOVE to do is to speed up the audio / presentation of the video. Most students can listen and absorb items much faster than we can talk about them. I have some audio/lecturing slides in Storyline (e.g. when I do a voice-over of a screen capture or talk about the basics of financial statements). I'm wondering if there is anything I can add to the player that would allow students to control the speed of the audio.
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!
Hi Janet and welcome to Heroes!
There isn't anything I can think of that added to the player would allow the student to speed up the audio/video - the seekbar will allow them to scrub through the audio/video but they'd miss elements of it. The community always amazes me with what they come up with though, so I hope that someone is able to assist you here.
I haven't had the chance to see if this will work in Storyline, but can javascript be used for the same purpose as shown here for Captivate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgwS7DeMKo
Although this is only a solution for embedded videos and not the module itself. I'd like the player to have playback speed options. That would be an awesome feature.
Has anyone tried adding JavaScript to Storyline to adjust the playback speed??
You could probably use javascript to find the <audio> tag.
//this line of code will return an array of all audio tags on the HTML page
var x = document.getElementsByTagName('audio');In theory, the page probably will only have one tag so your audio should be the first item in the array. You can now assign the audio an id.
//this line of code assigns an ID to the first element in the audio array
x[0].id='testAudio';Now that you have an ID, you can find the audio by ID at anytime and manipulate the playback rate.
//this code speeds up playback to 125% speed
testAudio.playbackRate=1.25;//this code cuts the playback speed to 50%
testAudio.playbackRate=.50;
Hi Ilanna,
It's not something available today, but I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request!
This is a huge feature that needs to be included in Articulate 360. I hear this from potential clients every week regarding our online training. To such an extent, I have spent time looking for alternative software solutions. Not anxious to re-train in something different, but definitely want to convey the importance of Articulate to incorporate the ability to increase audio playback speed.
Absolutely agree! The absence of that on feature is the only reason I've shifted all my production to a different product. Please add this feature!
Just subscribing to be kept in the loop. This feature is desperately needed.
Hi guys,
I just came across the same need to add a adjustment of playback time button on my videos.
Is this feature anywhere near to be included in the next updates of Articulate?
Cheers
Rodrigo
Yes, yes, yes! Learners are always looking for this feature to adjust playback speed (especially playback for audio and video in 1.5x and 2.0x speed). I have looked into Adobe Captivate to see if they have this feature out of the box. It is worth switching for this feature alone if it exists. Does anyone know any good workaround for now? I have been using Youtube/screencast videos as much as possible that have this playback speed feature built-in to accommodate our learners. I wonder if there is an LMS out there that has implemented this feature at the LMS level somehow. Thanks!!!
Looking forward to this feature being available soon in Articulate 360. Thanks!
I also would like to make a request for the learner being able to speed up/slow down the slide speed of the Player. I am getting a large number of requests for this from learners.
Not too happy with the lack of responsiveness on Accessibility requests or this thread on playback speed. These are pretty common requests from users.
