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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!
Bumping the conversation again, because I got more feedback around the lack of playback speed control from one of our users. Because YouTube and other popular video systems support this natively, the lack of playback speed support is very obvious to the average user, and is leading to a negative user experience. As mentioned before, it has great accessibility benefits as well, which is why I was surprised it was not included in the previous accessibility update.
Looking back to the start of this thread, I see this issue has been mentioned and brought up many times over the last 6 years. Is there any chance the priority of this can be raised by development teams? A custom JavaScript solution is more fragile, and sub-optimal for our purposes, as compared to an official Articulate implementation of this support.
Thanks for the bump, Fraser! There's gotta be a super smart Articulate developer working at home right now due to the quarantine, just needing a great project to work on. I see you out there, developer lady, be our Storyline HERO!
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
Just to add another voice to this need: my SME/instructors are considering going back to videos of narrated PowerPoint presentations (!) because the feature of adjusting playback speed is not possible with storyline. Please help me keep using your product by adding this feature!
three pages of people asking for this and the request has been in a queue for how long?
Morning Articulate Team,
The below matter has been escalated for a very long time however there seems to be no progress on this matter.
Can you please send feedback on where you are with this functionality?Trusting the above to be in order.
Kind Regards
Estee Tyler
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Note that the Rise360 player *does* include end-user playback speed adjustment and captions... I was really happy to see that, I wish they'd make that player available in Storyline as well.
Exactly. Why we can't get it in Storyline as well as Rise is an exceedingly frustrating question.
Morning,
I am not sure what you mean by Rise 360 Player? I was not aware that Rise360 has a "player", apart from the web-based screens? Could you elaborate what you are talking about please so I can investigate and test this?
Trusting the above to be in order.
Kind Regards
Estee Tyler
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Hello Your Accredited Training Provider,
This feature request has not made it to the top of our list yet, but we are still tracking the user requests. I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
To see what's currently on our radar and being worked on, check out this link:
Articulate 360 Feature Roadmap
The Rise 360 feature is for video playback and you can read about that here.
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Yes! Having the ability to let the learner control playback speed would be a great feature to add! Any updates on this?
I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. When this thread started almost 7 years ago, we were all doing the Harlem Shake, singing that new Blurred Lines song, and R. Kelly performed at the MTV Video Music Awards. So yeah, we've been asking for this for a while now.
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Hi Morton,
I do not have an update at this time, but we are still tracking and monitoring the requests and you can see my latest update right above your question.
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