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

Yes! I worked for hours today on a solution involving states to highlight randomized answers as the voiceover played for each choice. I made the default initial state “down” for each choice and chose a certain background and the trigger changed the state to normal as the media completed for each answer. The only problem is that this deleted the correct answers off of the form side of the slide so there was no correct answer. This happened even when I created a new “Reading” state. I also tried to animate the multiple choice or response by paragraph and have the voiceover play when the text entered the slide, but that caused the whole slide to blank out upon preview. I would like to provide this accommodation to my learners. Let me know if any of you have ideas on how to get the voiceover to play for each possible response even when randomized. 

Hello--I replied earlier but not sure where my response has gone. I have been dealing with a similar conundrum and am trying a couple of workaround options. You can create a cue point for after the question is read and then create a trigger to have the state of each of the response options change to something else after this--for instance, each response could be highlighted. Then set triggers to have each response's state to go back to normal after the media (voiceover) for that response completes. The highlight disappears for each response as it is read. The other option is to trigger the voiceover to be played when the user clicks on each option. The downside to this is they will need to actually select each response to have it read. The upside is they can choose to have it repeated to them. I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet. Any thoughts?

I'm here looking for other approaches for this, so I'll resurrect this thread to add mine as it's shorter than the suggestions above (but still not ideal, hence searching!).

• I have the question read out on timeline start. Also when the user clicks the question (which overrides the auto-play, so you need to add a trigger to play on start, too).
• Then each answer has a trigger to pause the timeline on this slide, and read out its own audio on click.

This means each answer is read out as it's selected, and the user can replay the question by clicking on it. It negates the need to turn off shuffle answers.

The downside is if they're clicking around between long answers, the audio for a previously selected answer will pick up mid-way through when clicked again, if it hadn't completed the previous time they clicked it. Unfortunately we can only pause the timeline, not stop it.

Still looking for better solutions if anybody has any!

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.

I thought I'd respond to these points while I'm here;

• We also have few people requiring the text to be read to them who don't have screen reader technology (one, that I know of!). My solution is to add an accessibility info screen at the start of all courses explaining how to navigate and use the Storyline accessibility features. It also tells the user to click the MUTE button now or connect their headphones if they're in a public space or where audio isn't appropriate!
• My workaround (playing TTS when an answer is selected) allows you to retain shuffle answers.
• I use a 'read to me' button on the intro accessibility screen as we're assuming users might have speakers on before being told to press mute, so we don't want the audio for this playing automatically when the course starts. But the rest of the TTS plays automatically. If they didn't read the instructions to mute or put on headphones that's their fault! This remains the same across courses so updating/changes isn't an issue.
• I have produced transcript versions for many courses - I just edit them so that the correct answer/feedback isn't included. How they certify completion in this format is between them and their manager, but typically the transcript serves as supporting information (which can be read by Microsoft screen reading tech without needing additional software), rather than a complete alternative.