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Text to speech speed
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 of the new features 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.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!
If you need additional capability to manipulate speed, pauses, and pronunciation, you can generate your audio with an AWS account and the Amazon Polly console (includes same voices used in Storyline). It works much like the Text to Speech in Storyline, there is just an extra step to export the audio file and insert it into SL. You can switch between Plain Text and SSML which is handy for customizing your audio. See documentation here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/index.html#lang/en_us
Isn't the cost of that rather expensive?
Hi Sherry,
I'm trying to use AWS Polly as per your suggestion.
I have one question though: are close captions available even with imported audio files?
P.S. The tag for slowing down the speaking rate in the AWS Polly Console is <prosody>.
Thanks. But I do not quite understand... What does the "AWC Polly Console <prosody> mean"? Is this something I can add to Storyline 360 to slow down the TTS speed?
Thank you for this awesome information :-)
