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Text to speech in Storyline lessons
I need to insert some accessibility features in learning lessons made by Storyline, one above all, the capability to read the text with a text to speech tool. Does anyone have some suggestions? I se...
I was playing with the Captivate Neo voices the other day and one trick I noticed was that if you alternate voices say as a conversation between avatars the robotic inflection sounds less repetitive.
Sadly they are still not good enough for high quality content although useful for demos prior to rerecording with a voice artist.
Roger
Roger, that's a good point! I was doing that for dialogues in my current project, but had not thought of that this also mitigates the monotone nature of artificial speech.
Next, I wonder if italics, bold or underline could be used by the TTS synthesizer for the same purpose? It would make sense from a logical point of view, but have little idea about the technical aspects of this.