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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!
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Following this thread...this has been a request from our users as well.
Adding my vote for this feature. In the mean time, has anyone found a work-around that doesn't involve javascript?
This is very important to our end users as well. People are used to controlling the speed of their media, and it should be the same for our courses. There is a lot of frustration! Thank you.
Hi Fraser,
Thanks for reaching out! This discussion contains some of the details around the accessibility player and in what stages we're addressing our efforts on. Media playback is in the conversation, and I'd be happy to share your thoughts with our team around playback speed.
Also, if you interested and would like to contribute your ideas more personally, feel free to take a look and reach out if you'd like to participate in the beta program!
Hi Ren,
It's great to hear that you guys are taking seriously the request, expressed by many here, to add functionality to control the speed of audio and video. I have made my request almost 1 year ago but I can see that the first suggestion was made 6 years ago. It's about time to show some respect for the customers who patiently wait for the functionality and keep loyal to Storyline.
From my perspective, I would expect Articulate to provide this in two places:
1. For the audio in the narration of the slides;
2. For the videos we embed on the slides.If I may suggest, I think you should try to implement something similar to the most used, YouTube. This will make it easier for our learners to adapt to the new features intuitively because they already know them.
Please keep us posted on the developments.
Regards
Rodrigo
I see in your upcoming release that an accessible player will be coming soon. Can someone confirm whether or not this accessible player will allow changes to playback speed? We actually need this player feature partially to support accessibility, so if it is part of that release, that would be greatly helpful!
I've just started with Storyline, and am pretty surprised that this isn't a feature that's been implemented yet. A dozen of my users (out of ~100) have asked for this - both non-native language speakers, who might need things a little slower, and people who want to move at a faster pace.
When YouTube has had a feature for years, my team is going to ask for it pretty vociferously.I have to add my voice to this request. We have learners requesting this feature frequently. Is there any progress by the development team on adding this feature?
I have as well.
I have as well. This feature is often requested.
Also submitted a feature request for this capability, as I just got asked about customizable playback speed this week, and given that it can be done with many video players for standard mp4 files, it came across as a limitation of the Articulate tool.
Customizable playback is great for highly-technical users who don't have a lot of time for training/review cycles, as well as for ESL students, who can customize the experience to better fit their speed of comprehension.
