Storyline AI text-to-speech audio repeating issue

Hello SusanRobbins613​   Sometimes Storyline does inexplicable and unexpected things. That's a job for the Articulate staff, so I'll leave it to them.

But for you: have you already tried completely deleting the repeating audio? And then redoing it entirely?

In your case, there seems to be “something like” a trigger that restarts the audio at the end of the audio playback. And only in Preview or Review, since you don't see it and didn't create it. It's strange, but rather than trying to figure out why, let's try to find a workaround.

If this “phantom” trigger is associated with the existing audio, it will also be deleted when you delete the audio.

Give it a try. It will take you less time than reading this message. And let us know how it goes.

If you haven't already done so, have you tried redoing the slide (making a copy before deleting the original)?

If yes: are the two slides on a different slide mask (on which there might be a forgotten or tricky trigger)?

If no: can you share your .story file?

Just this morning, I encountered another form of “phantom” trigger: it refused to perform an operation as simple as adding the value 1 to a numeric variable. There was absolutely no reason for this. I had done it 100 times before. I checked 10 times. Finally, I changed the name of the variable and associated the trigger with this new variable. It works. I don't know why.