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CareRxLearning
Community Member
9 months ago

Closed Caption issues with AI Text to Speech

Hi all  I am loving the new AI Text to Speech voices but have found an issue with the Closed Captions. The Closed Caption placeholders are not lining up or splitting where expected.  Image 1 is how...
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EricSantos
Staff
9 months ago

Hello everyone,

Thank you for sharing your experiences with the AI text-to-speech closed captions!

I've added more voices and TTS to my attached sample project, and I'd like to invite you to test how the closed captions synchronize with the AI audio. Here's the Review 360 link to my course.

I might be wrong, but I have tested Roger, Laura, and Sarah and do not see a marked asynchronicity in these voices. Feel free to share your sample Storyline files with AI audio so we can investigate this issue further. You may also share it privately by sending it along in a support case. We'll delete it when we're done testing.

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    IrisSchlabitz
    Community Member
    9 months ago

    Hi Eric,

    I just checked your file, and already found this: 

    You see, the voice actually breathes in, and a new sentence starts. But the caption does not adhere to that fact. I would think that the caption would normally break at the end of the sentence, this would make reading the captions much easier and smoothly. This is, I think, what everyone means when posting about this bug?

     

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      CareRxLearning
      Community Member
      9 months ago

      Hi Iris and Eric

      Iris your example is exactly what I'm referring to! its almost quicker to add the closed captions from scratch rather than all the cutting and pasting to line up the captions withthe audio. 

      Eric I did upload a file for your review where the captions (using the voice Matilda) are not aligned to the audio. It is attached to my post from October 21st.