Text to Speech Voices

I'd like to know - are there ways to purchase additional voices?

Hi LaWaune!

What additional voices would you like to see added to Storyline's text-to-speech feature? While there isn't a way to purchase additional voices through Articulate 360, I'd love to hear more about your needs. You can also share more details through a feature request!

I agree.  I'd like more English speakers with more nuanced accents such as the ones LaWaune suggests as well as possibly someone with a bit of a Kenyan or Nigerian accent and from the Middle East.

Thanks, Paula.

I've submitted your idea in a feature request as well.

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes!

Appreciate if the voices are categorized into age (modulation) group 

The issue we are having are that most of the voices sound very robotic.  Now I understand that the voices are auto generated, but Joanna and Matthew have the most...normal human sounding voices instead of something from a sci-fi movie.  I would definitely like some additional voice options as well, preferably with a less robotic tone in their voice.

Thanks for your feedback, Venkat and Don!

Where are the TTS voices stored within the Articulate files? Is it possible to add a third-party TTS voice into Articulate? For instance, if I purchased a voice through NaturalReaders, how can I add that voice to Articulate?

Since many statistics say people are less likely to read text only, I have relied heavily on the text-to-speech option for all my courses but I agree with Don. The feedback I get from my courses are the voices sound robotic and the my users will immediately reject the course because of the voice of the text-to-speech person. I would like to have other options of more normal English speaking voices. I currently use Joanna but the users of my courses don't like any of the other voices. The management team has even considered recording all of our content in a recording studio and then adding it to the course but as we all know, that takes considerable time, resources, money, retakes, and prolongs the scope of the project. I look forward to some other voices options in Storyline 360 if available in the near future.

Hi Alyssa, 

We also need more languages available for text to speech - is it possible to buy extras? 

Slovenian

Lithuanian

Czech

Bulgarian

Thanks, 

Laura