Text-to-speech in Rise 360

Hi - came across this post and thought I would chip in.

We had a client who wanted to be able to choose from a range of voices for their VO. Plus they had a lot of mnemonics they wanted to specify precise pronunciations for, so we built a simple tool in Storyline that looked a bit like this:

You just key in the text you want converting to voice (including any SSML for specific pronunciation), select the voice, adjust the pace on the slider and then click 'Convert'. The JavaScript code calls Microsoft Azure AI Speech Services (which is where the range of voices come from) and (a) reads out the text using the selected voice (b) offers an mp3 file for download.

Microsoft Azure is a truly great set of tools. You get a LOT of free credits and is very inexpensive to use. We use this tool all the time now and still haven't exceeded our free allowance.

Oh, by the way, there are a huge number of languages available in Azure.

I know this doesn't address the RISE requests here, but if anyone is interested in learning how to create this tool, we could easily run a virtual workshop??