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New Text to Speech Feature in Articulate Storyline 360
I am very excited at this new feature. It seems to use the Amazon Polly engine to do it's conversion. I would like to know if there is a way to edit the text to speech to slow it down, add emphasis,...
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 of the new features 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.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!
Hi Nicola!
I typically recommend adding extra punctuation within the text, or manually adding silence to the narration in the Audio Editor. It sounds like you've already tried those options and you're looking for something more user-friendly. We're tracking these requests, and we'll definitely let you know if more editing tools are added to the text-to-speech feature in the future!
Hi Alyssa,
and first of all thank you for your kind and quick reply. As you mentioned, I already tried adding extra punctuation but it just didn't work: even if I insert lots of dots or commas, pauses last the same. Should I use something else?
In ended I worked with silences in Audio editing and I managed to get the text how I wanted it, but it really takes a lot more time than working with tags or similar.
I hope you'll add a specific tool in the future since it doesn't seem that difficult to me!
