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Text-to-speech editor showing wrong text
This has only been happening today, and I've only opened one project, so I don't know if this is a weird glitch...
I have text to speech set up on all my slides on this Storyline 360 project. However, when I go to edit the existing text to speech, the editing window is showing text from different slides. If I preview the slide or the audio, it reads the correct text, so I know the correct text is there, but I can't get to it to edit it.
Example: slide 1 says, "step 1, first..."
Slide 2 says, "step 2, next..."
But if I click the Text-to-Speech button on slide 1, the editing window shows, "step 2, next..."
I have tried updating Storyline, restarting my computer, and closing and reopening the project several times, but nothing has helped. Does anyone have any ideas to help me avoid having to redo all the text-to-speech on every slide to get it to display correctly?
Hi Everyone,
I have some great news to share!
We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Build 3.126.38052.0, we’ve included essential fixes. One of the bugs we’ve fixed is:
- Closed captions for AI text-to-speech weren't updated after the narration was edited
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 us know if you have any questions about this update or the issue you reported.
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Hi EmmaGirton,
Sorry to hear that you're unable to edit existing Text-to-Speech in Storyline.
I haven't seen any recent reports of this occurring, and I'm unable to replicate the same issue when testing in version 3.119.37125.0. It's possible the behavior is local to your environment, and I have some follow-up questions to help us troubleshoot this better.
- Are you referring to AI-Assisted Text-to-Speech or our standard TTS tool?
- Are you working with locally-stored .story files? Authoring directly from a network drive can introduce unexpected behavior such as this.
- Have you tried importing the slides into a new project file to see if that improves the issue?
If you're still having trouble, and a repair of your Storyline installation doesn't do the trick, it would be helpful to see a copy of the affected .story file. Do you mind uploading your project here in the discussion or privately through a support case?
StevenBenassi I was working with the standard TTS tool. My files are stored in OneDrive.
It seemed to be affecting slides that I had created by duplication. Somehow I think it was retaining text from the slide that I had duplicated. I finished what I needed to do with the file, so I don't plan to continue trying to figure it out. Thank you for the response.
Thanks for the update, EmmaGirton!
If this happens again, please feel free to reach out!
I have same issue, the text to speech is showing wrong old text even different from the audio.
Hi EmmaGirton,
Thanks for sharing the additional context.
I can confirm that we have this behavior logged as a bug in Storyline. This bug causes Text-to-Speech scripts to revert to the original script in a duplicated Slide.
I've included your voice in the bug report that's being tracked, so we can notify you as soon as a fix is ready.
As a workaround, we suggest:
- Create a duplicate of the Slide as you normally would.
- On the duplicate slide, delete the Text-to-Speech object.
- From the original slide, copy the Text-to-Speech object.
- Paste it onto the duplicate slide.
- Edit the script on the duplicate slide's Text-to-Speech object as needed.
Thank you for your patience. I'm sorry if this slowed you down!
Please add me to the list of those notified when this is fixed. My situation matches this exactly.
I'm having this same issue. I'm finding on some of my pages, when I try to edit the Text to Speech (Normal TTS not AI TTS), the text in the "Insert Text to Speech" dialog box doesn't match the audio previously generated. I can enter the text again, then Update the TTS and it does work, it just makes editing it more complex as I need to find the original script, hope I didn't make subsequent edits, then generate a new TTS. I have the most current version installed, and am working on a HUGE course, so haven't tried complex work-arounds etc.
Hi Scott_PDX,
I'm sorry to hear that you've also run into this setback.
Can you confirm if the behavior only occurs with Slides that have been duplicated? I ask because we are tracking a bug in Storyline, which causes:
- Text-to-Speech script reverts to the original script in a duplicated Slide
This bug can arise when duplicating a Slide within the same Scene, as well as in separate Scenes. If this bug applies to your current workflow, I'm happy to include your voice in the report that's being tracked.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Hi,
When can we expect this bug to be fixed?
Hi Everyone,
I have some great news to share!
We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Build 3.126.38052.0, we’ve included essential fixes. One of the bugs we’ve fixed is:
- Closed captions for AI text-to-speech weren't updated after the narration was edited
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 us know if you have any questions about this update or the issue you reported.
