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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!
Adding silence and manipulating the audio sounds more unnatural than using the built in SSML tags that work with Polly. Yes this may not sound as user friendly as some audio editor, but the tags are easy to use once you get hang of them and a system that allowed you to drop in specific tags would make manipulating the speech must quicker and give you a better control of how the speech sounds. This is similar to allowing users that can write JavaScript to use it and there should be a way to mark up the speech for those that can use tags.
