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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 the closed captions are displaying for the voice to text.
Image 2 or 3 are both examples of how I would expect the captions to display, with the placeholders aligned to speech. Either of these would be acceptable.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Not sure if this is a bug or an enhancement request or if I'm missing something?
Thanks all!
Niki Stoyles
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It's been a minute since I used this feature, and while I love the voices and auto-creation of the captions, it's disappointing the captioning is not aligned to the natural speech breaks. It's annoying, especially if you have to re-record to fix one word...
I am curious what it thinks it is aligning to...a certain # of words or? 🤔I have noticed the same behavior and you are not missing anything. From my experience, AI Text to Speech captions in Storyline do not always split or align naturally with the audio because they are generated as a single caption block. When I need better alignment, I convert the captions to manual and adjust the timing myself. Adding clearer punctuation to the source text sometimes helps as well. This feels more like a current limitation than a bug, and I have treated it as an enhancement opportunity.
