Confirm if we have text to speech option in Rise 360

Although Rise 360 doesn’t have Text to Speech built in, why not go to the source that is used in Storyline 360, Amazon Polly voices?  It is a bit slower though since you have to create a file one at a time and then load into Rise 360. 

If you want to speed up that process, you can try an application for Windows 10 that I wrote that should make the process much faster.

Here’s what you do:

1. Get an Amazon Polly account (yes, there is some cost involved but doesn’t seem that prohibitive) (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/)
2. Save your scripts as separate files (MS-Word or Text)
3. Download HeroVoice TTS from the Microsoft Windows Store (fully functioning 15-day free trial)
4. Encode your files with HeroVoice TTS
5. Load each audio file into Rise 360

It’s really that simple!

HeroVoice TTS supports many of the requests that I’ve seen on the Storyline forums:

• Adjust the overall speed of your files with one setting
• Adjust the overall pause duration for commas
• Add your own SSML tags to get more finer nuanced, naturally sounding results
• Neural voices

I strongly agree that the text to speech option would be so beneficial so we can apply more senses to our learning, as well as help those with disabilities. 

Thank you. 

Yes please, text to speech!

Is it built yet?

Yes I would like to vote for this too!

Text to speech would be a really great option in Rise!  If an employee is blind or has difficulty seeing/reading the on-screen text it could be the difference maker between effective, inclusive training and a waste of time that makes them feel excluded.  

Hi there, could i check if the text to speech function is available in Rise 360 now?

I'm also wanting text to speech in Rise 360.  I currently record myself doing read throughts but I ideally want something that reads the text as the user scrolls.

Is there any update on this feature?

Hi folks! Thanks for letting us know that text to speech is an important feature for you to have in Rise. We don't have this in our roadmap at the moment, but we'll definitely share it here if we have updates!

Hi Articulate Team,

Are there any updates on text-to-speech in Rise? In particular, it would be interesting to know for the scenarios in Rise. 

Thanks for your help!