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MattBlouir
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4 months ago

TTS for Quiz Questions -- How Do You Handle It?

Hi all,

For brief context, our team primarily uses text-to-speech (TTS) in our courses, and we always add the audio transcript in the Notes field to aid accessibility.

An accessibility question was brought to our team last week.  The topic is adding TTS for quiz questions and feedback in Storyline for neurodiverse learners, like those with dyslexia.  Currently most of us do not add TTS to any quiz-related content. 

We had a good discussion over the pros/cons/ways to accommodate, but we wanted to see what others are doing.  Some highlights of our discussion:

  • The majority of learners aren't neurodiverse, so having TTS on quiz questions/feedback could prove annoying to them, especially for longer questions.
  • Can't add TTS to answers without losing the ability to shuffle them.
  • Could add a button to "Read to me" but this becomes extremely manual/tedious and easy to overlook when changes/updates happen.
  • Adding feedback transcripts to notes would give away answers. 

 

How do you handle TTS/audio in quizzes?  Does Storyline have a feature we're overlooking that might be similar to Word's "Read Aloud"?  We'd like to accommodate, but only if it's reasonable to do so.

 

Thanks!
Matt

  • Hi Matt,

    These are great questions to ask the community!

    While waiting for other members to chime in, you can check out this article where we've compiled some tips on designing courses in Storyline 360.

    They include recommendations on how to handle audio files which you may find helpful!