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Voice overs/text-to-speech
I work with Storyline a lot as an Instructional Designer, and I was wondering when Articulate will come out with more voices for text-to-speech. Also, the voices sound really robotic, so is there a way to fix that on Articulate's end? I have to do all voiceovers in Vyond because they offer a plethora of voices and just added more.
Thanks so much!
Melissa
Hi everyone, in reviewing this thread, I saw quite a few posts that called out the robotic nature of the Text To Speech feature in Storyline 360 and I wanted to share some good news. Today in Storyline 360 update 80, users will see better versions of most of the voices when inserting TTS audio. These will show up in the same place as the standard voices, under “Neural Voices”. These are voices that sound more natural and human-like and are considerably higher in quality compared to the older standard TTS voices.
A list of these voices can be found here. Updating Storyline 360 to the latest version is super easy, here is the guide in case anyone needs it.
We will continue to keep tabs on requests to support ways to control speaking rate, inserting silence, pronunciation and SSML support in general. Please let us know of any feedback (good or bad), around this enhancement and we’ll be happy to pass it along to our dedicated team of engineers.
All the best,
Michael Marcos
Customer Support Product Liaison
Hello Melissa,
Those are great questions!
Our team is working on improving the customizability of the text-to-speech feature. We've added your voice to the feature request report, and we're taking each one of these requests into consideration as we plan for new features to add to Storyline 360 in the future. Thanks for your input!
I second the motion. Obviously, the workflow of native text to speech in Storyline is the best. Easiest to manage, update, and produce. However, 4 female and 3 male voices, none of which are "AI" or "natural" sounding is a real limitation. Our internal customers hate most of them, so we have to jump through a lot of hoops to leverage the many, much higher quality, voices available in other tools. And the edit review publish workflow is much more cumbersome.
Articulate is one of the premier eLearning suites on the planet. The lack of a modern TTS solution hurts the overall success of the toolset.
I am really pleased that we are now able to use text to speech, however, are there any plans to add more languages, for example, Hungarian.
I've tried using the online free TTS but having to download the mp3 files for each sentence is very time consuming.
Thanks.
Please add me to your list of those who are asking for an update. Other posts show this request being over 4 years old. I'm only looking for a voice that matches the built in characters within Storyline. And an English version. Nothing really matches up with Craig character
There are a number of relatively inexpensive AI voice-to-text generators on the market now that deliver emotion-based voiceover that is frequently indistinguishable from a real human voice. Is there one that works particularly well with Storyline?
Hi Mike,
I'm currently trying out LOVO on a free-trial basis. So far, my organization and I are pleased with the voices. If you're interested, here's the link to create a free account:
Sign In: Genny by LOVO | AI Text to speech and Generative AI
I find LOVO easy to use and it works well with Storyline.
I hope this helps!
Please add me to the list as well.
Please add me to the list as well.
Our internal customers hate also most of voices.Add another user to the list! Out of all the voices that Storyline offers, I only find two of them worth using. Thanks for looking into this!
I agree with this sentiment. While I currently utilize Vyond, Revoicer, and Synthesia, there are a plethora of exceptional solutions available. Nonetheless, Storyline's limited functionality poses a significant hindrance, especially when creating courses in multiple languages. This limitation results in an exponential increase in effort, and cost.
