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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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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!
Thanks for your reply StevenBenassi​.
Yes, I've been exploring the text-to-speech enhancement in Rise. It is quite impressive. I was enquiring about automatic voiceover as this is something my stakeholders/customers have been asking about.
Have a great day!
+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.
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.
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.
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.
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.I second this a thousand times!
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.
Hi AS Staff, can you share any course examples that illustrate voice overs in Rise 360?
Can a short block be applied to just one slide, or would it be just one (continuous) block per course?
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!
