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RickMaranta
Community Member
6 years ago

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...
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  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    12 months ago

    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!

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ThorMelicher-b5
Community Member

Although Neural voices are not supported inside of Storyline yet, I have created an application that can help streamline the process if you use Amazon Polly directly like Rick talks about in his post here.

1.       You’ll need an Amazon Polly account (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/)
2.       Save your scripts to be encoded 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 script files using HeroVoice TTS
5.       Load each audio file into Storyline

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

·         Adjusting the overall speed of your files with one setting
·         Adjusting the overall pause duration for commas
·         Adding your own SSML tags to get more finer nuanced, naturally sounding results
·         Neural voices
·         Batch processing your script files 

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LauraDit
Community Member
4 months ago
Thor Melicher

Although Neural voices are not supported inside of Storyline yet, I have created an application that can help streamline the process if you use Amazon Polly directly like Rick talks about in his post here.

1.       You’ll need an Amazon Polly account (https://aws.amazon.com/linnworks/)
2.       Save your scripts to be encoded 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 script files using HeroVoice TTS
5.       Load each audio file into Storyline

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

·         Adjusting the overall speed of your files with one setting
·         Adjusting the overall pause duration for commas
·         Adding your own SSML tags to get more finer nuanced, naturally sounding results
·         Neural voices
·         Batch processing your script files

Thor's application is an incredibly useful tool. I’ve tried it out and found that if you want to achieve higher quality neural voices for your project, this is the simplest and most effective way to do it!

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