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!
I have just created a feature request on this topic. To all subscribers of this discussion: Please also create a feature request if you wish to have this feature. Articulate Storyline is the main tool to create learning content with audio for me. The ability to use this content in a self-paced manner is very important to our learners.
Yes, everyone reading this, please make a feature request for variable speed of the timeline (and all of the audio, animations, video on it)! Thanks @Georg for the nudge.
This feature will allow learners to skim content that is more well-known and slow down content that is more complex. Also, humans can easily comprehend speech that is much faster than normal spoken rates:
"Most research has indicated no loss of comprehension or intelligibility at playback speeds of two or even three times normal speed. Cameron Earle, who is helping to commercialize variable-speed playback applications developed by Brigham Young University, said that most students chose rates that were 80 to 120 percent faster than normal with no decrease in test scores." (from the New York Times in 2003, bold added for emphasis; link: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/technology/now-hear-this-quickly.html)
As someone else said in this thread, this has also become an expected playback feature in the most common players, namely YouTube and Vimeo. Adding this feature will keep Storyline modern and help users engage better with learning.Clinton, that was well articulated! Thank you so much for clarifying why this is so important for our learners. I submitted another feature request, myself.
Everyone, here's the link to submit a feature request!
As Alan pointed out, maybe it is not wise to get my hopes up, for this feature ever coming into existence. Has there ever been an indication on WHY this feature isn't considered? Are there simply not enough feature requests in relation to the projected cost and risk to this feature?
Just following this thread and noticing it's been 2 years since an update. Any further information about the addition of this feature?
Thanks Georg and Jamie for checking in on this feature request!
We are still looking into a feature that allows learners to control the video speed in Storyline 360. Our team evaluates feature requests alongside their queue of bug fixes, new features already on the roadmap, and other projects. When it’s ready, we share the good news!
Is that Pete Buttigieg?
Hi Scott,
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Scott, yeah, it's a photo of Pete Buttigieg from seven years ago. When this thread started.
I love Articuate, but their lack of response on this issue has been supremely frustrating. Considering that updates to the player are currently in development, this seems like the ideal time to add this feature into the system. Considering that speed of playing is not only a user preference issue but an accessibility issue, it would seem like it would complement the accessibility upgrades well.
I've added a feature request when I first saw this. I'm pretty sure I've requested it multiple times. I'm not sure what else to do other than be frustrated.
