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!
Great suggestion Hannah! I have added a request. I find Articulate's web site(s) a bit hard to find features so to help other here is the URL for submitting a request.
Our client just requested that we allow learners to adjust the speed of narration that plays along with the seekbar ("Some folks process quicker."). The request is similar to how Audible allows you to adjust the speed of an online book. I have also requested this feature request with Articulate.
Articulate Staff, although there have been efforts by the community for workarounds using javascript, etc. this feature needs to be implemented by you. I know you can't give roadmap updates but I have noticed some staff have forwarded requests to the whomever is involved with adding features. I am asking that an Articulate staff member reply to this request and to forward this request again to the features team.
Community, please continue responding to this thread and add this as a feature request.
Just adding another request that Articulate will probably throw in the bin. Do you actually care or just no? Can you just be honest with everyone and say you just don't care, you don't care what users want, you don't what our end users want? This isn't that complicated of a feature. Players have speed up or down by user selection for literally years and years. There are YEARS of requesting a simple feature and you've done nothing. It's really embarrassing. It isn't as if that much else has actually changed in SL 360. Absolutely frustrating seeing pages and years of responses and just a non-answer.
I've already commented on this thread, but I'll do it again. It would be VERY helpful to have this built into Storyline's player. It's been a frequent customer request. I will also submit a feature request. (Thanks for the link, Kevin Freeborn!)
Requested!
Thanks for posting the link, Kevin!
Hi Patrick,
It has been a while since we've replied here, but I can confirm that this is in the hands of the right team, and we continually provide updates and insights shared from this conversation. I appreciate you taking the time to share what your client is requesting, the need for an update here, and for submitting a formal feature request.
Hi A.M.,
We do care. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and how this affects you.
It looks like you may be new to our products and the community, so I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests, as well as a link to the features and bug fixes we've released in Storyline 360 so far.
Thanks, Cathy and Janet! I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and submitting a feature request. I've linked your two along with Patrick's to our internal report.
Leslie, thanks for the response .
As there is a similar thread here..
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/can-you-speed-up-the-player-in-articulate-360?page=3
I did start diving into speeding up and slowing down audio...and the timeline.
Speeding up audio aint to difficult. Issue is mainly the timeline that aint responding to the change. I did send a request to Articulate too. Not specifically for this, but more general to give developers the option to add custom variable to the code so Storyline can be extended and functionality like this can be developed by people like me.We just don't put a video directly into Storyline anymore. We purchased a Vimeo account years ago, and we upload all of our videos there and just embed it. This way your learner can control the speed while you wait for the feature to be added within storyline. Just a thought....I am sure this may have been mentioned before, but just in case :)
Although this works fine for embedded content...video and/or audio, you lack the option to speed up/down the Storyline timeline...and thus also cannot sync any graphical elements in Storyline to your embedded video...
Thanks for the idea Teresa. As Math says, the real issue for our learners is to be able to speed up/down the Storyline timeline/seek bar.
Sure would be nice to have this feature - please, please, please Articulate!
I echo the thoughts above. Not having this is a competitive disadvantage versus other products available in the marketplace and the desire of learners to adjust the speed which is available on free videos on YouTube.
