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The voice changes after using a
I decided to check the Amazon Polly developers guide - since the Storyline TTS voices are Amazon Polly voices - and this is what it says on page 247 in the "Controlling how special types of words are spoken" section: "The <say-as> tag is supported by generative, long-form, neural, and standard TTS engines.
Note, however, that if Amazon Polly is using a neural voice and encounters the <say-as> tag with
the characters option at runtime, the affected sentence will be synthesized using the related
standard voice."
So, in other words, the voices are intentionally changing for the <say-as interpret-as="characters"> tag - and there is nothing Articulate can do about it.
Thanks! Follow up.... I'm not using SSML and I do not have a <say-as> tag in the text-to-speech. Is there some combination of words or punctuation that might be interpreted as a <say-as> tag by Storyline? Something I can avoid using in the future. There are just words, periods, and commas in the text.
Hi TamaraCraft-62f,
There isn't a combination of text that Storyline 360 will interpret as SSML tags. You need the <speak> tags to tell Storyline 360 you're using tags for the text. Are you still encountering issues with the voices used by your text-to-speech audio? If yes, would you mind sharing a copy of your project file here so we can check the script used to generate the audio for any issues?
Hello,
I'm still experiencing this issue with Matthew and its on a different course. My Storyline is up-to-date. I cannot share the file due to proprietary information. Any other ideas?
