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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, and customize it like you can do in Polly with SSML tags. The speech is great it is just a little quick for what I will need it for in my course development.
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!
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Hello Chris,
Thanks for reaching out, and good question!
This is an internal report, where we're tracking requests for more editing capabilities in text-to-speech. I'll surface your thoughts and let you know if this gets added to a future update!
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+1 to adding the ability to use SSML tags - please!
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!
I have the software up to date and the feature is not available in my Storyline
Hi Maria,
Happy to help!
You should see this line of text in the text-to-speech window to indicate that you have SSML formatting available in your installation.
If you don't see this option, please send us a screenshot of:
- What you see when you click on "Insert -> Audio -> Text-to-speech"
- The pop-up window that appears when you click on "Help -> About Storyline"
If your Storyline 360 version is not 3.83.31444.0, please update to the latest version to receive the SSML formatting updates.
