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!
We would also love to see this request accommodated. Speeding up/slowing down both video and audio content is a feature users are increasingly familiar with and asking for--giving the user more control over their experience of going through a course.
So is it in the pipeline?
Hi Janet,
We don't always know 'what's in the pipeline'.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests since that may be helpful.
Sharing your feature request and use-case could be helpful to understand how you would like to utilize this as well.
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.
Another vote for this. Our learners have been asking about the ability to change audio speed. We can't assume learners all hear and process the audio at the same speed, so some folks need it slower and some need it faster. Very important.
Its become so much more prevalent since most of the major podcast and audio apps on Android and iPhone have this ability.
Thanks, Susan and Concetta for sharing how this is impacting you and your course design. I know a few of the earlier folks in this discussion mentioned specifically needing more options when using our Text to Speech tools, it sounds like you're like this for any audio you import into Storyline too?
Yes, we need the ability to increase audio speed on audio clips that we add into Articulate Storyline. We have professional narration that we incorporate into our training. While we are not currently using text-to-speech, I can definitely see the need there as well. The ability to increase speed is used significantly in education settings and to re-state my original post, we are being asked about this feature every week. I would love to hear back when we might expect to see this feature released. Thank you!
Thanks, Susan - it's really valuable insight. I'm not able to offer an ETA for this feature, but I've passed along the ideas here to our team. Our team uses the information here to help assess what features should be included in future updates and we'll keep you posted if this one is included in Storyline!
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.
Just submitted a feature request on this as well. Or is there an open request that we can just vote on (like how Canvas does it)? I work for Med School and med students go through most of our topics at 1.5x or 2x.
Yes, I am also working with medical students, and their largest complaint is that they cannot speed up audio so they can go at their pace. As others have said, this is not the ability to find a particular place with the seek bar, but a feature similar to an audio book, where you can listen at 1x or 2x or .75x.
Hi Yuyen,
Thank you for submitting a feature request and sharing your use-case/need for this.
We do not have a voting system, but we do tag conversations in the forums and feature requests for our team so that we can track users requesting as well as an update when we can.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
This thread is already attached and I'll be sure to add your request to the report as well :)
I also submitted a request for this feature.
Thanks, Archie! I see that we received it yesterday.
Agreed that users expect and often use this kind of functionality today. Youtube, for example, has a range of playback speeds from 0.25 X to normal to X2.
