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BeansproutMo921's avatar
BeansproutMo921
Community Member
7 years ago

Text to Speech voice change

Evening all, I have an insane amount of courses that use text to speech, my client now wants to switch the voice out for a different one... Please someone tell me that there is a magic piece of ...
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ThorMelicher-b5
Community Member
6 years ago

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.