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ReneeSimpson
Community Member
4 years ago

Slow down audio on text to speech

I see two years ago there was going to be an update to help with the issue of the text to speech being too fast. Has this upgrade been done yet? I need my students to be able to understand the videos. 

  • 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!

  • Has this feature been added? If not, I would like to add my support for it.  

    • StevenBenassi's avatar
      StevenBenassi
      Staff

      Hi Anahita!

      Thanks for reaching out!

      I don't have any updates to share at the moment as our team has been prioritizing other features, but I've included your voice in the feature report! We'll update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap!

      For your reference, here's a closer look at how we manage feature requests.

  • Would like to add my voice/vote to this feature. The text-to-speech is a very helpful tool, but I cannot use it because it is much too fast to be used without spending time manually adding silences.

  • too fast, my vote as well! great add, but too fast - need to be able to have a rate feature! thank you!

  • LucynaDra's avatar
    LucynaDra
    Community Member

    Adding my vote to the feature of slowing down audio in text-to-speech!

    • RussellLash-6d1's avatar
      RussellLash-6d1
      Community Member

      Hi LucynaDra - Speed of audio (aka speed rate) is now available in Text-to-Speech, and it works great. See KellyAuner's (staff person) replay above in this discussion for detailed information.