Text to speech speed

Ive gone in and manually added pauses and spaces but it is limited and time consuming. Any change to the text also wipes out the pauses

Hi all,

I appreciate the added insight into what you'd like to see added to Text to speech! We'll let you know as we expand that feature set or make any changes, and your voice truly helps us prioritize and determine next steps. I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request! 

Yes, yes, please add me to this request. Love text to speech, but it is cumberson, and I believe it would become a standard for e-learning especially for software. Please add the ability to edit the speed of the speech.

Thank you,

Kimberly 

Agree with all the comments above. Another option is to use a non-grammatical character (/) as the pause indicator and allow multiple occurrences of the character. Adding silence to the audio track is, indeed, cumbersome. The character should be machine-read only and not affect the closed captioning. This may be a modest stop-gap fix with out a massive application re-engineering?

Bottom line, put me on the list. 

Thank you,

Emerson

I have just started trialling 360 - specifically for the TTS feature

The feedback so far from my stakeholders is that it is too fast and robotic.... I think if we could slow down the speech and add pauses, it would sound less robotlike!!...

This feature defo works better than I thought it would and would be incredibly useful for quickly adding voice overs in different languages (which is currently a very time consuming and expensive process for us!!)

I am keen to know when/if the above suggested feature requests will be added! (soon I hope as I would like to use TTS to convince my boss to give the go ahead for us to upgrade to 360 :) )

Thanks for your feedback Patricia.

You are in the right place to be notified of any updates we have to share regarding this feature.

While this is not the best solution, it does a much better job than trying to add silence.

1. Export the audio to .wav
2. Use the Change Tempo effect in Audacity to adjust the tempo slower (I use -10)
   1. If you have pauses inserted, select the text between the pauses to adjust the tempo (this leaves the pause the same)
3. Save the audio and import back into Storyline

I am using the portable version of Audacity so nothing need be installed on our firm machines.

I will chime in this petition/discussion. We need a speed control for the text to speech. I especially suffer with the acronyms that are never said correctly. 

Hi there.

I used to record voice overs for the eLearning courses I developed, but it became very time consuming particularly as it relates to the editing process. 

Fortunately, some companies have really come out with excellent text-to-speech applications.  However, the process of using multiple applications does add an extra step to the development process.  So, I was quite excited to learn that Storyline 360 has integrated the text-to-speech software!  YAYA!

From the applications I have been using (Speech2Go and Text Speaker), I have learned that inserting at least a 0.25 second pause after each sentence helps quite a bit.

Here are some programming commands that might be used within Storyline 360:

Insert 0.25 second pause - <silence msec="250"/>

Insert 0.50 second pause - <silence msec="500"/>

Insert 0.75 second pause - <silence msec="750"/>

Insert 0.80 second pause - <silence msec="800"/>

Insert 1 second pause - <silence msec="1000"/>

Insert 2 second pause - <silence msec="2000"/>

Greetings All, 

I recently came across the same issues with the voice being either too fast or robotic. As the staffed has shared in the past using punctuation helps a lot, but also adding spacing between the words. In my company, we were a bit reluctant to use the feature as an immense percentage of our employees have English as their second or even third language. However, utilizing the Microsoft Word Software, to replace the single space to a triple space has reduced significantly the pace of the automated voice in our case (English: US: Mathew) and using commas, periods and semicolons have gone a long way when explaining very technical aspects. Extra Tip:  If you have the script in a word format and would like to add the spacing in an efficient and concise way just use the shortcut (CTRL + H), push the space bar on the bar of what you want to look for in the document and replace it with the desired spacing. 

I know it is an extra step. However, I thought it may help some of you that need the pace to be slower. 

Have a wonderful rest of the year.