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New Neural Text to Speech Voices from Amazon Polly
Storyline 360 uses standard voices from Amazon Polly for it's text to speech functionality. I imagine they use their API for this. This has been great for prototyping sides and getting the timing ri...
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!
I am currently using the Google Wavenet voices as they are far superior to the Amazon Polly voices. They sound more natural. I use a Google Chrome add-in to play the speech of the text on the screen and record the audio to use inside Storyline. It is definitely more work than the built-in text to speech, but the voices are far superior.
Hi Anthony. Cool. I have not used that. I will have to check that out. The extra work might be worth it.
Thanks!
Rick
Hey Anthony, what add in do you use?
I use Wellsaid Labs. It is the best I have ever heard as far as computer-generated voices.
WellSaid certainly is impressive. I would also try Descript. It is significantly cheaper. It has a number of voices included with Overdub and you can create a voice based on your own or someone else's. Not only that you get a complete audio editing toolset and audio transcription service. It's quite impressive. May very well piggy back of the same technology as well said since the voices are of the same quality.
