Storyline 360: Create Content with AI Assistant

AI Assistant is a set of generative AI tools integrated into Storyline 360 to help you unlock creativity and develop high-quality e-learning content faster than ever. Compose compelling copy, generate custom imagery and realistic text-to-speech, and more. As of September 2024, you can bring these AI superpowers into your workflow. Let’s get started.

(If you haven't yet, check out the Get Started user guide to learn about managing access and more.)

• Write and Edit Inline
• Image Generation
• Quiz Generation
• Question Generation
• Summary Generation
• Text-to-Speech
• Sound Effects
• Compatibility

Write and Edit Inline

Create and refine your text in a click with the write and edit inline feature—change tone, check grammar, improve readability, generate additional content, and more. Read on to learn how.

Generate Text with AI Assistant

Here’s how to add a new text box with AI-generated text:

1. In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Insert Text.
2. In the window that appears, type a prompt in the text-entry field or let AI Assistant help you generate content.
3. When you’re done, click the paper plane icon to start the text-generation process. (You can click Stop Generating at any point.)
4. After AI Assistant finishes generating text, you can choose from any of the following next steps: 
• Click Insert to add all the content to the slide.
• Click Copy to copy the entire content, then close the window to paste it into a text object. (Tip: You can copy a portion of the content by selecting the text and clicking Copy.)
• Click Continue writing to keep generating text.
• Click Cancel to exit the window.
• Use any of the AI editing and formatting options to enhance the content further.

Tips:

• Check out these tips on writing and editing with AI Assistant.
• You can resize the Write and Edit Inline window to display more AI-generated content by dragging any of the window’s sizing handles.
• You can add AI-generated text to an existing text object by selecting it, then following the steps above.
• After your first text generation, navigation buttons and a counter will display next to the paper plane icon so you can track the history. The counter increases every time you modify the text. You can use the navigation buttons to cycle through each generation and hover over them to see the prompt you used.
• Using AI Assistant to turn text into a table or insert emojis isn’t supported in Storyline 360.
• AI tools can’t detect plagiarism in text. Consider AI Assistant as a writing partner to help you with creativity.

Edit Text with AI Assistant

Once AI Assistant finishes generating text, you’ll find several options for refining your text—such as changing the tone and rewriting for an intended audience—in the drop-down list below the text-entry field. Click the prompt that suits your needs.

You can also prompt AI Assistant to edit existing content by using any of the following methods:

• To edit certain text in a text object, select the text, then click the sparkle icon from the floating toolbar or click Edit Text on the ribbon.
• To edit all of the text in a text object, select the text object, then click Edit Text on the ribbon.

Image Generation

Transform your ideas into high-quality custom imagery with image generation. Use one of our prebuilt styles or create your own. Here’s how:

1. In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Insert Image. Or, go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate Image.
2. In the Generate AI Image window, type a prompt in the description field. (Tip: Follow these tips to optimize your AI image prompts.)
3. Select an image style from the Style drop-down list or create your own. Keywords used for the image style will display below your selection. (Tip: Want to further customize a prebuilt style? Click the Copy icon next to the keywords to copy them to your clipboard, select the Custom image style, then paste the text into the keywords text-entry field where you can make your changes.)
4. Choose the aspect ratio: landscape (16:9), square (1:1), or portrait mode (9:16).
5. When you’re done, click Generate Image to start the image-generation process. (You can click Stop Generating at any point.)
6. Optional: To add an image to your media library, hover over it and click the media library (folder) button. You can use the Add all to media library link at the bottom of the window to save all the images.
7. Optional: To view enlarged versions of each image in a carousel, hover over an image, click the View button, and then use the navigation buttons to view each result. To exit the carousel view, click the image.
8. Select the image you want to use and click Insert Image to add it to your slide. You can select multiple images by pressing Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click and then inserting them all simultaneously. If you don’t like any of the results, click Generate Again or adjust your prompt to try again.

You can also replace an image with an AI-generated one by using any of the following methods: 

• Right-click your image, hover over Replace Picture, and select Generate Image with AI....
• Select your image, then click Insert Image on the ribbon or Generate image from the AI Assistant tab on the side panel.

Note: Inappropriate, offensive, and legally protected language like copyrights and trademarks can't be used to generate images. Prompts containing restricted language will be blocked or simply not generate content. View our content policy for additional information.

Quiz Generation

With quiz generation, you can ask AI Assistant to craft a quiz based on your course content and the parameters you provide, like focus topic and difficulty level. Use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Story or Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Quiz. 
• Go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate Quiz.

In the Generate Quiz window that displays, select the slides you want to reference, then specify where AI Assistant should add the generated quiz—as new slides or in a question bank. Further customize your quiz by specifying learning objectives, difficulty level, and more. When you’re ready, click Insert to add the quiz to your course. After the quiz is modified, a confirmation message with a link to its location will display in the AI Assistant side panel.

AI Assistant will generate the questions in a new scene. Generated quizzes can be edited like any other quiz.

Tip: Check out these tips on optimizing AI quiz generation.

Question Generation

Generate a Question with AI Assistant

Create individual question slides based on your content with AI Assistant’s question generation option. Use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Story or Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Question. Or, go to the Question Tools—Design tab and click Insert Question.
• In Form view, go to the Question tab on the ribbon and click Insert Question.
• Go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate Question.

In the Generate Question window that displays, select the slides you want to reference, then specify a topic for the question. Once AI Assistant finishes generating the question, you can use the prompts at the bottom of the window or create your own to further customize your content. For example, you could change the question topic, answer choices, and more. Once you finish iterating, click Insert below the question draft to add the question to your course. After the question is added, a confirmation message with a link to its location will display in the AI Assistant side panel.

Generated questions are added after the slide you selected before opening the Generate Question window.

Edit a Question with AI Assistant

You can use AI Assistant to edit existing multiple choice or multiple response questions—AI-generated or not. Select your question slide, then use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Story or Slide View, go to the Question Tools—Design tab and click Edit Question.
• In Form view, go to the Question tab on the ribbon and click Edit Question.

In the Edit Question window that displays, use the prompts at the bottom of the window or create your own to make changes. You can replace the existing question with the modified one by clicking Replace. Or, add the modified question after the original question by clicking the Replace drop-down arrow and selecting Insert Below. After the question is modified, a confirmation message with a link to its location will display in the AI Assistant side panel.

Tip: If you add objects or triggers to your question and later edit the question with AI Assistant, those elements won't automatically transfer to the modified question. We recommend selecting the Insert Below option so you can copy and paste the elements from the original question to the modified question.

Summary Generation

Get polished, AI-powered summaries based on the content of your course with summary generation. Use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Story or Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Summary.
• Go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate Summary.

In the Generate Summary window that displays, select the slides you want to reference, then specify where AI Assistant should add the generated summary—into slides with a prebuilt layout or a blank slide. When you generate a summary in Story View, prebuilt layouts include a closing slide as well. Further customize your summary by specifying the number of bullet points, tone, target audience, and more. When you’re ready, click Insert to add the summary to your course. After the summary is added, a confirmation message with a link to its location will display in the AI Assistant side panel.

When in Slide View, generated summaries are added after the slide you selected before opening the Generate Summary window. When in Story View, generated summaries are added as a new scene.

Tip: Learn more about how to guide AI Assistant when generating summaries.

Text-to-Speech

Bring narration to life with highly realistic and customizable AI-generated voices. Add your script, define voice settings, and let AI Assistant do the rest.

Add AI-Generated Text-to-Speech

Use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon. Then, click the Insert Audio drop-down arrow and choose Text-to-Speech.
• In Slide View, go to the Insert tab and click the Audio drop-down arrow. Then, hover over AI Audio and choose Text-to-Speech.
• In Slide View, go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate text-to-speech.

When the AI Audio window displays, follow these steps:

1. Select a voice from the first drop-down list. Voices are grouped by whether they're favorited, set as a default, or currently used in your project. Each voice includes a short description and a play button, so you can hear what a voice sounds like.
2. Type or paste your script into the text-entry field. Or, if you want to use your slide notes as your script, click the add from slide notes link. The maximum length is 5,000 characters.
3. To add closed captions to your text-to-speech narration, mark the Generate Closed Captions box.
4. To define your voice settings, click the Advanced settings drop-down arrow and modify the available settings listed below. You can always click Reset to default to use the default settings.
   • Model: Click the drop-down arrow to choose which of the following AI models you want to use to generate audio.
     • Multilingual v2: Most lifelike, stable, and emotionally rich model, offering support for 29 languages.
     • Turbo v2.5: High-quality, rapid generation model, offering support for 32 languages.                                                                                 Learn more about each model and hear the difference between them.
   • Stability: Drag the Stability slider to determine how stable the voice is and the randomness between each generation. Lower stability levels usually make the “performance” sound more emotional and compelling, while higher stability levels tend to sound more professional and formal.
   • Similarity: Drag the Similarity slider to determine how closely AI Assistant should adhere to the original voice when replicating it.
   • Style exaggeration: Drag the Style exaggeration slider to adjust the style of the original voice. Note that values higher than 0 can result in longer generation times.
   • Speaker boost: Mark this option to boost the similarity to the original voice. Note that this option can result in longer generation times.
5. When you’re done, click Generate Speech to start the speech-generation process. (You can click Stop Generating at any point.) Several generated text-to-speech options will display on the right side of the window. There, you can add generated text-to-speech to your media library, view the voice settings you used by hovering over the gear icon, restore previously used voice settings and text, and preview each narration.
6. When you’re ready, select the generated text-to-speech and click Insert to add it to your course.

Tips:

• AI Assistant’s text-to-speech supports up to 32 languages depending on the model—including some with multiple accents and dialects. Learn more about the supported languages for each model. Simply type or paste your script in the supported language you want AI Assistant to use. (Even though the voice description notes a specific language, AI Assistant will generate the narration in the language used in your script.)
• Check out this resource on optimizing AI narration generation.

Manage AI-Generated Voices

You can easily access all the voices provided by default. Use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon. Then, click the Insert Audio drop-down arrow and choose Voices.
• In Slide View, go to the Insert tab and click the Audio drop-down arrow. Then, hover over AI Audio and choose Voices.

From the Voices tab of the AI Audio window that displays, you can do any of the following:

• Use the search bar to find voices faster.
• Access your preferred voices as well as the voices used in your project from the View drop-down arrow.
• ​​Filter voices to find the one that best suits your needs.
• View short descriptions for each voice and preview how they sound.
• Mark voices as favorites by clicking the heart icon. (Note: Favorited voices are specific to the computer on which they were selected.)
• Use a voice right away by clicking the Use button.

Sound Effects

Add a layer of realism to your audio content with AI-generated sound effects. Use any of the following methods to get started:

• In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon. Then, click the Insert Audio drop-down arrow and choose Sound Effects.
• In Slide View, go to the Insert tab and click the Audio drop-down arrow. Then, hover over AI Audio and choose Sound Effects.
• In Slide View, go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate sound effect.

When the Sound Effects tab of the AI Audio window displays, follow these steps:

1. Type or paste your description into the text-entry field. The maximum length is 450 characters. (Tip: AI-generated sound effects work optimally when prompted in English. Follow these tips on optimizing AI sound effect generation.)
2. Define your sound-effect settings by modifying any of the available settings listed below. You can always click Reset to default to use the default settings.
• Duration: Mark the Automatically pick the best length option to let AI Assistant determine the length of the generated audio. To set the duration yourself, unmark Automatically pick the best length, then type or use the Up/Down arrows to enter the number of seconds. The minimum length is 0.5 seconds and the maximum length is 22 seconds.
• Prompt influence: Drag the Prompt Influence slider to keep your generation close to your prompt or allow for a little creativity.
3. When you’re done, click Generate Sound Effect to start the generation process. (You can click Stop Generating at any point.) Four versions of the generated audio will display on the right side of the window. There, you can also add generated sound effects to your media library, view the settings you used by hovering over the gear icon, restore previously used audio settings and text, and preview each sound effect.
4. When you’re ready, select the generated audio and click Insert to add it to your course.

Compatibility

AI Assistant is exclusive to Storyline 360 as of September 17, 2024. When you open, edit, and publish projects with AI-generated text and images in earlier versions of Storyline 360, your content will work as expected. However, AI-generated audio like text-to-speech narration and sound effects revert to regular audio.