Text to Speech voice change

Hi Emily,

Currently, we don’t have a code to mass change the voice (TTS) of a number of courses. What we only have is the voice change per course, kindly check this link: https://community.articulate.com/series/74/articles/storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-convert-text-to-speech#update

But if you want this to be added as a feature, kindly fill-up the feature request form in this link: https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request

Hi,

I was looking for the exact same thing. Is there a way to change the text-to-speech voice globally for all the slides?

And yes, the link Reynaldo provided talks about voice change for individual slides. 

Thanks!

Radhika

Hello Radhika and David,

We are tracking a feature request with a few ideas for additional editing tools and capabilities for text to speech.

I have added this conversation to the report so that we can share any updates with you here.

Hello,

Has there been any progress on this feature?  

Hi Emily!

Thanks for checking back! We don't have any updates to share, but when we do we'll report back to this discussion!

Although not quite 100% automatic, I have a solution that may just work for your needs.  Instead of using Storyline, you would go to the source that Storyline uses, Amazon Polly voices. 

Here’s what you do:

1. Get an Amazon Polly account (yes, there is some cost involved but doesn’t seem that prohibitive) (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/)
2. Save your scripts as separate files (MS-Word or Text)
3. Download HeroVoice TTS from the Microsoft Windows Store (fully functioning 15-day free trial)
4. Encode your files with HeroVoice TTS – apply a global setting for speed and even comma duration so your files are consistent. 
5. Select the voice you want – these are the same as you’ll find in Storyline today including Neural voices (which aren’t currently available in Storyline)

After the files are created, you will then need to re-insert them, one at a time.  Unfortunately, I’m not aware of a mass import into Storyline.  Where you do save time though is HeroVoice TTS’s ability to batch process your script files.

Hello,

Has there been any progress on this feature?  

Hi Steve,

I do not have an update on this feature, but it is still open with our team and this conversation is attached. I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests, which may be helpful. 

You can see what's on our upcoming roadmap here:

Articulate 360 Feature Roadmap

Hi,

Have you had the time since 2 years ago to add this feature?

So, I take it this feature is no longer going to be actively looked into considering it's no longer on your Feature Roadmap then?