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GeraldCrumbley's avatar
GeraldCrumbley
Community Member
4 years ago

Text-to-speech. Options or updates for more realistic voices?

Is there, or will there be any more realistic options or upgrades for the text-to-speech voices in Storyline360?
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  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    10 months ago

    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!

JoseTansengco's avatar
JoseTansengco
Staff
2 years ago

Hello, Everyone!  

I'm happy to share that we have released a new update for Storyline 360 (v3.80.30988.0.).

In this update, we included an enhancement for:

  • Support for NTTS or Neural Voices

Please update to the latest version of Storyline 360 to see this improvement. Here's how:

Update Authoring Apps

If you have any questions, please let us know in this thread or privately in a support case.

Have a great day! 

  • DonSaunders's avatar
    DonSaunders
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Good morning,

    I have reviewed the TTS update. The quality of the available voices has improved somewhat. "Mathew" seems to be the best selection currently.

    Still, to consider using this as part of my production work I feel the audio/voice editor falls short by not providing the ability to control the speed of the speech execution. This is not a minor shortcoming but a necessity.

    Thanks for listening.

    Don Saunders
    SpE Staff
    Lead, Systems Engineer
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    • EricSantos's avatar
      EricSantos
      Staff
      2 years ago

      Hi Don,

      Thanks for your feedback and for sharing the additional features you'd like to see in Storyline! We have this logged as a feature request; I see that you're already added to the list for the ability to slow down or speed up the pace of text-to-speech voices. Here's a peek into our process for managing feature requests.

      Also, just a quick note that replying via email includes your signature here, so you are welcome to edit the post and remove that information if you wish!

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