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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!
- KevinFreebornCommunity Member
I have as well.
- KevinFreebornCommunity Member
I have to add my voice to this request. We have learners requesting this feature frequently. Is there any progress by the development team on adding this feature?
- KevinPerry-4771Community Member
I've just started with Storyline, and am pretty surprised that this isn't a feature that's been implemented yet. A dozen of my users (out of ~100) have asked for this - both non-native language speakers, who might need things a little slower, and people who want to move at a faster pace.
When YouTube has had a feature for years, my team is going to ask for it pretty vociferously. - FraserGordonCommunity Member
I see in your upcoming release that an accessible player will be coming soon. Can someone confirm whether or not this accessible player will allow changes to playback speed? We actually need this player feature partially to support accessibility, so if it is part of that release, that would be greatly helpful!
- RenGomezStaff
Hi Fraser,
Thanks for reaching out! This discussion contains some of the details around the accessibility player and in what stages we're addressing our efforts on. Media playback is in the conversation, and I'd be happy to share your thoughts with our team around playback speed.
Also, if you interested and would like to contribute your ideas more personally, feel free to take a look and reach out if you'd like to participate in the beta program!
- RodrigoFilipeCommunity Member
Hi Ren,
It's great to hear that you guys are taking seriously the request, expressed by many here, to add functionality to control the speed of audio and video. I have made my request almost 1 year ago but I can see that the first suggestion was made 6 years ago. It's about time to show some respect for the customers who patiently wait for the functionality and keep loyal to Storyline.
From my perspective, I would expect Articulate to provide this in two places:
1. For the audio in the narration of the slides;
2. For the videos we embed on the slides.If I may suggest, I think you should try to implement something similar to the most used, YouTube. This will make it easier for our learners to adapt to the new features intuitively because they already know them.
Please keep us posted on the developments.
Regards
Rodrigo
- AllisonZnachko-Community Member
This is very important to our end users as well. People are used to controlling the speed of their media, and it should be the same for our courses. There is a lot of frustration! Thank you.
- ScottJones-fb4dCommunity Member
Adding my vote for this feature. In the mean time, has anyone found a work-around that doesn't involve javascript?
- TracyMoore-906fCommunity Member
Following this thread...this has been a request from our users as well.
- Lee-AnneGoodgerCommunity Member
Good morning, over the past few months we have shared our free modules with many international experts for their comments on our modules and most of them commented that the audio voice is much to fast. So yes, this is really something that will be beneficial to all who listens to the voice in an e-learning module. Please keep me updated if such a function has been found and is working so that we may correct all of our audio files accordingly.
- AlanBaertschiCommunity Member
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.- KevinFreeborn-4Community Member
🤠very good. It would be wonderful if we could have this feature soon. The frustration our learners feel is reflected in the diminishment of our brand if we cannot respond to their requests in a timely fashion.
Kevin
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- CaraSimoneCommunity Member
Lol.
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Well, maybe when Baby North is old enough to start needing to use
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