Forum Discussion
Text-to-Speech Issues & Sample Library Idea
Hi! I am no longer experiencing this, as it took a long time troubleshooting with Articulate Support and our IT department. Turns out, Windows Media Player (Legacy version) was not installed. Try checking and installing that to see if that fixes the issue. That did it for me!
Hi TheresaHobbs-41,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!
I understand that many users advocate for new tools and products to their leadership team. We do offer a trial to test out features. Do you mean having access to all voices outside of a trial?
Hi KellyAuner​,
I mean access to samples of all available AI voices outside of a trial — a repository of audio files of each voice saying the same sentence(s). This would allow Articulate users (and those in charge of procurement budgets) to simply go to a site and sample any of the voices and languages available with the AI add-on. It would be much easier to justify the added cost if we could quickly take budget managers to the site and let them listen for themselves!
I would love this as well! There's no need to generate any audio - just a place to filter and listen to the audio previews that are already built for each voice. It would essentially be what you have in Storyline, but take out all generate text and use buttons. I would love to have a page to send to my stakeholders so they could pick out their favorite voice. It really would have been helpful to send the library of options to my supervisor when we were working on approving the AI purchase - as it was, I had to share my screen with people while I still had the trial.
Hi CrystalKlari268,
Thanks for sharing that context. I can see how the current Voice Library experience works well for authors inside Storyline, but doesn't make it easy to share voice options with stakeholders who may not have access to the authoring environment.
I've shared your feedback with our product team. A shareable or publicly accessible version of the Voice Library could make it easier for teams to review available voices and support purchasing decisions without requiring a trial or a live screen-sharing session.
We appreciate you taking the time to explain how this would help your evaluation process.
This was exactly the second point of my original post. It would be nice for stakeholders who do not have Articulate accounts/licenses to be able to listen to previews of the available voices. Otherwise, it makes far too much work for the developer to provide these samples.
