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Text to speech - How to fix the first word being cut off
I'm having the same issue with the first word being cut off from the audio file I've imported into each slide. What's strange is if I click back to refresh the slide or on go back to a slide I've already viewed then that first word is spoken. I am not using the speech to text function in Storyline in this project.
there are two well known scenarios where this (missing first word) can happen
(1) when the learner is using bluetooth headphones and the headphones go into power saving mode. then it takes some time until the headphones are ready
(2) most browsers (???) need approx. 0.1 ... 0.2 seconds to play the first audio of a page correctly, the first syllable or word may then be missing - this problem has always existed - not only in storyline
the general fix is to add approx. 0.3 seconds of “silence” before each audio. for the fix of the bluetooth headphone problem, the silence should not be absolute, but contain a minimal amount of noise
of course this has to be done before importing, because it changes the timing slightly
