Forum Discussion
I would like to see Articulate focus their AI efforts first on automating the crazy amount of work it is to make a Storyline course fully accessible by hand. Why do I have to manually add closed-captions to a video when we have AI technology that can do this for me? Why do I have to manually add "ALT" text to my images? When I drop an image onto a Storyline slide, an AI process should start that "looks" at the image and generates a short ALT tag for me. When I drop a video onto a slide, an AI process should automatically generate closed caption files and an audio description of what's happening in the video.
After all the manual work of making a Storyline course accessible is automated away by AI processes, I would next like Articulate to point their AI efforts at localization/translation. Other companies already have working AI tech that can take a talking-head video, clone the voice, generate a transcript, translate the transcript into a new language, use the cloned voice from the original video to read back the translated transcript, sync up the new audio of the cloned voice speaking in the new language to the original video, and modify the lips of the person in the video to sync up with the audio generated by the cloned voice. I want this built into Storyline.
When I drop a video onto a slide, a little pop-up should appear with checkboxes I can select to indicate how I want the video processed: Do I want to generate closed captions? Audio description of the visual contents? Translation into a new language (if selected, present me with a list of possible target languages)? Do I want the translated audio to match the original audio (same voice) or do I want to use one of the Neural or other AI voices instead? etc. I should be able to tick off the options I want, click OK, and the AI processes should do all the work behind the scenes.
I'm not very interested in having AI processes write course content for me, but I am very interested in having AI processes remove the grunt work in current accessibility and localization workflows.