Forum Discussion
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!
I have had to resort to using an external TTS engine for mine now, which I hate to do, because otherwise Articulate's is great. I like the voices, the way they sound, the ability to make changes easily, but they just speak too quickly for my audiences. I found a free engine that has 20 speed options, but making a file there and importing it isn't ideal, especially when changes need to be made.
I think the number of responses to these threads is evidence that it is a worthwhile enhancement! I appreciate the forum for requesting this, and that it has given us an opportunity to share the timing 'hacks', which has been quite helpful, but since I have to give a lot of information to a crowd for whom English is not their first language, I really need that ability to have the audio track play slowly and clearly.