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Do you know how to adjust speed of audio created by "Text to Speech"?
I am creating e-Learning course with Articulate Storyline, also I use "Text to Speech " fanction to create audio.
My boss asked me that it could be slow down the audio speed.
But I cannot find speed controler.
Can I change the speed of audio? If someone knows, please advise me.
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 enhanced feature 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.
To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here!
Hi Akiko,
Welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community! You can use punctuation, such as commas and semicolons, when you want to insert brief pauses. If you need longer pauses, you can open the built-in audio editor and insert silence where it's needed.
I hope this helps!
Hi Kelly,
Thank you for your help.
Is it possible to change the entire speaking speed?（like 0.75x speed)Hi, Akiko.
While not a current feature of Storyline, we have a request logged for the ability to slow down/speed up the pace of text-to-speech voices, and it's linked to this discussion.
We'll come back to update you when we have news to share.
Hi, Maria
Thank you for your help.
I hope that feature will be implemented soon.
I see that the request has been logged but just wanted to drop a comment so I get a notification when you update and to say that I also hope this feature is added soon!!
I rememember selecting the playback speed in the past from somewhere inside storyline? Is this something that gets selected once and can not be adjusted ?
Hi Philip!
You can adjust the playback speed of your videos by hovering over the playback speed icon to choose any speed between 0.25x and 2x. Please let me know if you have additional questions! I'll be happy to help.
I agree that the text to speech speed needs to be adjustable. We use the text to speech for our reviews before doing voiceover work but the speed is too fast. This creates the need to realign the slide elements once voice over work is done. If individual designers could select a speed (as others suggested 1-10) that closely matches their narration speed it would greatly improve this product and be a big time saver.
I see comments from over 4 years ago that this was being tracked and an idea for future improvement. Is there any update on when that could happen?
Hi Jonathan,
We don't have any new updates to share regarding this feature request, but you can check out which features are being worked on here in our feature roadmap. Here's a quick look at how feature requests are handled for your reference.
Adding my vote for this feature.
Hi all, adding feedback from a global corporation too: it needs to be possible to slow the voice over down. Adding pauses is not helping... There are even special cases we had the text-to-speech voicing "comma" and other punctuation. But it's getting better and we adopted "Mathew" as one of the team, as he sometimes even sounds human :) Hope this will move up on the roadmap.
