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Voice Over in Rise 360
Is there a quick/easy way to add automated voice over to Rise 360 courses?
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Hi there, Bob!
Rise 360 allows you to add audio in an audio block. You can record the audio yourself, or upload an audio file from your computer.
The labeled graphic, process, and timeline blocks also have the option to add audio.
Audio won't play automatically, so learners will click the play button to listen to the narration.
Let me know if that answers your question!
Can a short block be applied to just one slide, or would it be just one (continuous) block per course?
Hi AS Staff, can you share any course examples that illustrate voice overs in Rise 360?
Hi there!
For accessibility- it would be nice to have all blocks with the option to add audio caption for those who are visually impaired.
It would be more esthetically pleasing to embed the audio in the block, rather than having a separate block for the audio.Hi Dan! Thanks for designing with accessibility in mind.
Check out this article on making Rise 360 courses accessible, including making your content work well with screen readers. For folks with visual impairments, they may already be using a screen reader to help understand text and images.
I second this a thousand times!
I concur. I prefer designing courses in Rise rather than Storyline but it's unfortunate that voice narration isn't an option to be imbedded within the course.
You can add voice overs easily. Select Multimedia > Select the first option which is Audio
Although a great option, you would have to manually click play for each section of Audio. It doesn't give the same feeling as a true voiceover.
Completely agree. Rise 360 is great - just missing that voiceover element (which is a huge disadvantage in today's society).
Welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community, Rachel! We're glad you're here. 😀
I understand that a voiceover element would benefit you and your organization. I'd be happy to share your feedback with our product team, but can you share additional details on how you want this feature to look in Rise 360? I'll add your comments to the feature report. Currently, you can use an audio block to add recorded audio to your course.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
This is a feature that we need to have! Although screen readers and etc are passable, they are not good quality (usually they sound like Microsoft Mike and are all robotic.)
It would be nice to somehow implement a narration system where as my learners scroll down, they can hear the paragraph that they are on in my pre-recorded voice that automatically starts playing. I think this is something that can be done in Storyline, but we are completely all-in on Rise and Reach 360 currently. Getting our course developers to do two different courses (one with accessibility with Storyline, and one without accessibility from Rise.) is far to costly for us as a NPO and it would be great if Rise 360 would implement this in the near future.
+1
In Storyline, we put the voice over to auto-play when you load the slide. I'd like that as well in Rise.A lot of learners just wanna sit back, relax and click through a compliance course without having to read (or setup robotic screen reading in their device). Voice over is not only for people with disabilities, it helps make the course more engaging.
I note this post was 6 years ago so keen to know if there has been any update on automated voice over in Rise 360. EricSantos​, is there any update you can share? Many thanks 🙂
Hi KirstyFoxwell​!
Happy to help!
We're still tracking the feature request to support automated playback of Text-to-Speech, across an entire Rise 360 course. I've included your voice in the report!
In the meantime, I'd like to highlight a Text-to-Speech enhancement we released in a recent update of Rise 360. Now, AI Assistant customers can generate Text-to-Speech for any Block type that supports audio. However, the playback is not automatic, and does require the learner to click the 'Play' button first.
Please let me know if you need anything else!
Just following up on this:
I am LOVING, what the Articulate team did with this. It was a long time coming, but I think it has been implemented perfectly. There are two key types of projects that Articulate hit the nail on the head with for this Text-to-Speech update:
1. There is an ability to use auto-ai voiceover for quick projects. This is incredibly helpful if you have a short project and want to include TTS for the visually impaired. It makes courses more accessible, and gives equal opportunity of learning to all.2. For more advanced projects, we can insert pre-recorded voice files from voice actors. THIS IS HUGE, as it raises the ceiling for really well developed, professional looking and sounding courses. Although Ai is quite good now, there is always something less "personal" about an Ai voice that comes up (even in the best ones like Elevenlabs.) It also allows us to use recordings of our CEO, or familiar company executives to do the voiceover for our internal training courses. This gives a real sense of congruency in our training.
I was very worried that we would only have a ai voice feature locked behind a paywall, and by extension not be able to use pre-recorded readings from professional voice actors, but Articulate delivered in knowing what we needed most as course builders. It is not always about the quantity of the courses, but the quality within them that makes a learning experience!
I am in the process of slowing updating my courses with voice content now and I couldn't be more pleased! Thank you to the Articulate team for doing such an excellent job of this latest update!
