Changing Speed of Audio in Articulate Storyline?

I've been patiently holding my breathe on this one, thinking surely, surely, they'll at least grace us with an answer - even if it's just to say it isn't being considered (which quite clearly seems the case).

Fair to say, I've died of asphyxiation.

It seems like a bunch of us have submitted feature requests for this, so there must be a bog down in the feature request system where they can't consolidate/prioritize things that have multiple requests like this. 

I know one of our most popular additions to our module design has been allowing video playback speed alteration from our Vimeo videos, and people keep asking about when the ability is going to come for Storyline audio (both in imported audio and in Speech-to-Text).  

Hello Yuyen and Concetta, 

So, to begin with, some of our IDs found a workaround for the playback speed, but it's clunky.  If you open the video up in another window and right click on it, the browser offers tools to adjust speed.  This is crazy making for us and our students, as there is good research on cognition and playback speed, which I posted earlier.  We like to say that we not only practice evidence-based medicine, but also evidence-based pedagogy!

Our Ed Tech team is researching how to make Articulate modules searchable in OneNote, and I think they found one, but I don't know the details yet.  I will post when I learn more about this--  Meanwhile, we are posting modules in two formats, too.  One in Word to take notes on, and the actual module.  However, the Word module, produced from Storyline360, is really pictures of text that can't be grabbed to make flashcards. I would love to be able to turn on a feature to allow students to make flashcards. 

 Medical school curriculum is dense and efficiency rules the day.  Educational materials must be "high yield."  If they aren't, there are lots of ancillary business cropping up (Boards and Beyond, Sketchy Micro,  etc.,) usurping our content and delivering it in a way that students can access easily and import into to Quizlet or Anki.  

I don't have a good understanding of Articulate 360 as a company.  It appears that many software engineers work remotely.  There is a  friendly, robust, and responsive sales dept.  

Cara

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. 

Thank you, Alyssa.  

Some food for thought:  

https://www.learnworlds.com/new-feature-video-speed-control-science-behind/

https://www.panopto.com/blog/variable-speed-playback-review-lecture-recordings-at-your-own-pace/

Hi there Team, this is also something that I am searching an answer for.  The voice I chose for my "Text to Speech" option, is the best suited for what we want, however the speed is just a little too fast.  There must be a way where we can make it a bit slower, as one of the other readers stated, not everybody hears at the same speed as others. This is definitely something we will be grateful for if there is a solution.  Regards

Not sure if my comment here would come across as "beating a dead horse". Just wanted to add that we just finished our course for 4th year med students and this was our1st time using Articulate SL for all of our interactive topics. The request to change player speed came up more than 20 times in student evals. We're gonna have to address this somehow. It would be nice to know if this feature will be available soon, before I invest time in designing/implementing some type of work-around. Thank you!

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!

The ability to change tempo or speed of speech without changing pitch has become pretty standard with audio books so not only is this feature expected it addresses a widespread accessibility problem.  People who speak the narrator's language as a second language often need slower speeds as well as people who are  simply are less familiar with a topic.  Blind users usually can listen at over 2-3X the normal speaking rate of sighted people and prefer to speed up narration.  A temporary solution is to put transcripts of the narration in notes.  This allows people to move through the material more quickly than the narration by reading as well as access by the hard of hearing.  Screen readers generally allow users to change playback speed.  Unfortunately the animations are tied to narration and, thus, narration speed.  I have not figured out an EASY work around to  just clicking through the animations like you can with Power Point. 

BUMP -

Two of our major clients have requested that we add this feature to all of their courses as their users (especially their overseas students) are demanding this on a daily basis.