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Narration in Rise
Is it possible narrate all text in a Rise course, similar what's possible in Studio and Storyline? Or is audio restricted to certain content types (timeline, process, etc)? Also, is it possible to have audio play continuously from the start of the presentation through the end, or does the play button have to be pushed for each audio snip?
Thanks in advance for assistance!
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Hey Kevin! It sounds like having full screen reader support in Rise 360 would be helpful for your learners. The good news is, we're working on that!
So far, we’ve increased the contrast for built-in course features, added alt text for images, and added keyboard-accessible navigation. Our ultimate goal is to meet accessibility guidelines. Stay tuned!
That’s great but what about automatic narration rather than having to play the audio?
Len Taylor
Instructional Designer III - TBC Corporation
Strengths: Strategic-Learner-Achiever-Individualization-Relator
Phone: 303-589-5081
FAX: 303-648-6859I hear that automatic playback of narration audio is important to you, Len! We don't have this feature on our roadmap for the near future, but we're still listening to the impact it has on you. I'll update this discussion with any changes.
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I am in the same situation. I cannot believe, with all this feedback, that it is not useful without narration that it is not on Articulate's road map for the future.
Hey folks! Thanks so much for sharing your need for audio to play automatically in Rise 360. Here’s an update on our plans for this feature.
Web browsers are moving towards stricter auto-play policies in order to improve the user experience. We agree that requiring some kind of action from the user, such as clicking a button before playing audio, is the right approach to ensure a unified experience for all learners. To that end, we won’t be adding any auto-play features to Rise 360. However, we are looking at ways we may be able to provide narration features that don’t auto-play.
Well if that is true, why is it still part of Storyline. I am not against people having to click a next button, but it is awkward in the Rise interface.
I respectfully disagree that having users click a button to hear audio (click-click-bling-bling) is a positive unified experience. Having audio play automatically would be. My company continues to consider Rise for elearning due to the fast turnaround time, but without audio, designers go elsewhere and spend much much more money and resources than necessary. No audio continues to be a hard sell to customers. Please reconsider the wave of requests!
I don't need to have audio auto-play, but please, please, please expand the options for adding narration to blocks!
I agree - such a roadblock not being able to add audio script CC
I agree with everyone here. Please add the ability to have narration the same way we would use in any other elearning design.
I have stopped using it do to this shortfall. Back to Storyline.
Len Taylor
Instructional Designer III - TBC Corporation
Phone: 303-589-5081 FAX: 303-648-6859
Strengths: Strategic-Learner-Achiever-Individualization-Relator
+1 for the request to be able to add narration to all Rise lesson types.
+1 for me as well.
I understand Articulate's position on wanting to limit Autoplay to be more in line with current internet trends.
I hope that the developers would at least consider making audio autoplay an option that the user could choose when they start a course. Something similar to how Instagram does it now - autoplay on video is off by default, but if you click on audio for a video subsequent videos in your Instagram feed autoplay the audio until you click on the speaker icon to turn it off.
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