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!
Not too happy with the lack of responsiveness on Accessibility requests or this thread on playback speed. These are pretty common requests from users.
Hey folks,
I really appreciate all the feedback and insight you've offered in this discussion. We've shared it all with our Product team for consideration. If we add this feature to a future update of Storyline, we'll let you know!
Thanks, Alyssa. Given that this thread started five years ago, is there a timeline for a response or even implementation from the Product team?
Hi Cara,
I don't have a timeline to share, but there is more detail on how we work to prioritize feature requests in this article. I hope that helps to offer additional insight.
I'm watching this thread, as it's something crucial for us.
I must say, it's really frustrating to have the response of "no updates", "no timelines", etc. It would be far better for us customers to know it literally isn't even on the agenda (it has been 5 years!).
Can you at least confirm that it isn't in development yet (which I presume it isn't)? And if/when it is planned to even be considered? At least then we can give appropriate answers to our customers about this and/or consider whether to renew with Articulate.
Agreed. We get a lot of pressure from students, and knowing that this simple fix is not on anyone's agenda would be helpful to know. There are work-arounds, such as sending students outside of a module. However, a five-year request and lack of response is giving me cause for pause.
Commenting to see new replies in this thread. I submitted this as a feature request back in April of 2018. This is becoming more and more of an expectation of our products from our learners.
While this may not be ideal as a solution, but has anyone considered creating different versions of your audio/video, of various speeds, and having a selector somewhere allow the learner to select something like "slower" "normal" or "faster"
Then on each slide that leads to a piece of audio, read the variable setting and jump to a slide of that speed. If they are on a slide and want to change speed mid-stream, a variable could be read when the variable changes and load the appropriate slide that contains audio/video of that speed.
Just a thought. In general, we avoid audio for reasons such as this. Without having a dynamic way to control speed, everyone listens a the same speed so it is a limiting factor.
It's a good idea but, like you said, not ideal. We would have to offer at least 3 different speeds, and that means we have to triple the size of the file and amount of work to create these. Plus we have animation synced with the narration, which will be even more work if I had to create multiple versions of the same slides just to offer different play speeds. I'm hoping this feature can be available soon as we work with medical students who pretty much demand this option.
Adding my vote for this feature as well. Once of our most common comments for our Storyline training is that learners wish they could speed up the playback.
Thanks for you insight, Mary and Christiana! If we make changes in this area, we'll be sure to keep this discussion updated.
Getting lots of complaints from medical students about Articulate. They can't speed up playback speed or grab text to make flash cards. Our students import everything into OneNote, as a repository for studying for big stakes exams (Step 1). I'm a little concerned that there are staff responding "if we make changes in this area, we'll let you know" after five years of complaints. I recently lobbied to get Articulate for our instructional designers because I believe in adaptive learning, the benefit of spaced repetition, and the testing effect. After a robust conversation with the sales department, it seems like it's crickets now. Vimeo, MedEd, Osmosis, and YouTube has a variable playback speed option. Can you offer more details about the logic for not adding this feature? The process of collecting feedback, analyzing it, and making choices about updates?
I second Cara's request to have more details on the exact status/decision. This is our first year using Articulate and we rolled out 22 Storyline topics (out of 70+ total in our course). In general our students have responded positively, but right off the bat, this was one of the requests/complaints we received. After our course finishes at the end of March, we'll be put on the spot to give a more specific answer (vs. the vague "I've already put in a feature request" that I gave at the time). So more information will be greatly appreciated.
On a side note (to Cara), could you share more of your or your students' experience with importing SL slides into OneNote? The workaround we provided was to publish the module in 2 formats, and post the Word file in Canvas for them as well. If there are better practices anyone is using, I would love to learn more!I'll echo Yuyen - we also provide a word file of the slides in the resources tab for our people to be able to use for notetaking, but we've gotten lots of requests for OneNote. If there's an easy way I can provide that to them I know my learners would love it!
