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Text-to-Speech is awesome but has one serious flow.
Hi, everyone!
I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 83, we’ve included important fixes and new features!
One enhanced feature we’ve included:
Unlock new possibilities for text-to-speech audio. Use speech synthesis markup language (SSML) to adjust the speaking rate, modify pronunciation, emphasize words, add pauses, and more.
To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here!
A further feature request would be the ability to "teach" the talk to text certain characters; for example, I have a course in which the phrase "complaint/inquiry" is heavily used, as that is the way the process was written and defined by the client. It would be nice to be able to get the text to learn that the / does not need to be spoken, but can be read as "and or" globally, rather than having to go into each text-to-speech to update, since the find/replace feature does not read captions either.
When I encounter this problem, I type a TTS script with adjusted spellings so the TTS engine can record it as it is supposed to sound. What I place in the NOTES field is written as it is intended to be written, but the TTS engine has already recorded the speech as I want it to sound. (Example: "Dr. Smythe" should be pronounced the same as "Dr. Smith", but the TTS engine pronounces it with a "hard Y". So I give the TTS engine the name "Smith" and after it is recorded, I correct the spelling)
