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210 TopicsAI Assistant: Producing Highly Realistic Audio
As a course author, you want to do more than just present information—you want to create multi-sensory e-learning experiences that resonate with learners. Using sound creatively can help you get there. AI Assistant’s text-to-speech and sound effects features let you create highly realistic AI-generated voices and sound effects for more immersive and accessible content. Available only in Storyline 360, these features can be accessed from the Insert Audio dropdown in the AI Assistant menu within the ribbon. Find them under the Home or Insert tab when you’re in slide view or from the AI Assistant side panel as quick action buttons for added convenience. Bring Narration to Life with AI-generated Voices If you’ve ever used classic text-to-speech, you probably wished the voices sounded less, well, robotic. AI Assistant’s text-to-speech brings narration to life with contextually aware AI-generated voices that sound more natural—and human! Check out the difference in quality between a standard voice, neural voice, and AI-generated voice by playing the text-to-speech examples below. Standard Voice Your browser does not support the audio element. Neural Voice Your browser does not support the audio element. AI-generated Voice Your browser does not support the audio element. To get started, click the Insert Audio icon in the AI Assistant menu to open the Generate AI Audio dialog box. A library of AI-generated voices—which you can filter by Gender, Age, and Accent—displays under the Voices tab. The voices also have descriptions like “deep,” “confident,” “crisp,” “intense,” and “soothing” and categories that can help you determine their ideal use cases, from news broadcasts to meditation, or even ASMR. Find these qualities under the voice’s name, and use the play button to preview the voice. Currently, there are 52 pre-made voices to choose from, and you can mark your favorites by clicking the heart icon. This way, you can easily access your preferred voices without having to scroll through the list. Toggle the View option to Favorites to find all your favorite voices, or In project to see voices used in the current project. Once you’ve decided on a voice, click the button labeled Use to switch to the Text-to-Speech tab. Your chosen voice is already pre-selected. Next, enter your script in the text box provided or click the add from slide notes link to copy notes from your slide. The script can be a maximum of 5,000 characters. For accessibility, select Generate closed captions—AI Assistant will generate closed captions automatically. Adjust the Voice Settings Unlike classic text-to-speech, the AI-generated voices in AI Assistant’s text-to-speech can be customized for a tailored voice performance. The Model setting lets you choose between the Multilingual v2 model—highly stable, exceptionally accurate, lifelike speech with support for 29 languages—and Turbo v2.5 model—slightly less stable but 300% faster with support for 32 languages. Play the following samples to listen and compare the voices generated by each model. Multilingual v2 Your browser does not support the audio element. Turbo v2.5 Your browser does not support the audio element. The setting for Stability controls the balance between the voice’s steadiness and randomness. The Similarity setting determines how closely the AI should adhere to the original voice when attempting to replicate it. The defaults are set to 0.50 for the stability slider and 0.75 for the similarity slider, but you can play around with these settings to find the right balance for your content. Additional settings include Style exaggeration, which amplifies the style of the original voice, and Speaker boost, which enhances the similarity between synthesized speech and the voice. Note that if either of those settings is adjusted, generating your speech will take longer. Note: Some voices in the Multilingual v2 model tend to have inconsistent volume—fading out toward the end—when generating lengthy clips. This is a known issue with the underlying model, and our AI subprocessor for text-to-speech is working to address it. In the meantime, we suggest the following workarounds: Use a different voice Switch to the Turbo v2.5 model Increase the voice’s stability Manually break your text into smaller chunks to generate shorter clips Do I Need to Use SSML? AI Assistant has limited support for speech synthesis markup language (SSML) because AI-generated voices are designed to understand the relationship between words and adjust delivery accordingly. If you need to manually control pacing, you can add a pause. The most consistent way to do that is by inserting the syntax <break time="1.5s" /> into your script. This creates an exact and natural pause in the speech. For example: With their keen senses <break time="1.5s" /> cats are skilled hunters. Use seconds to describe a break of up to three seconds in length. You can try a simple dash - or em-dash — to insert a brief pause or multiple dashes for a longer pause. Ellipsis ... will also sometimes work to add a pause between words. However, these options may not work consistently, so we recommend using the syntax above for consistency. Just keep in mind that an excessive number of break tags can potentially cause instability. Multilingual Voices Expand Your Reach Another compelling benefit of AI-generated text-to-speech is the ability to bridge language gaps, allowing you to connect with international audiences. With support for up to 32 languages depending on the model—including some with multiple accents and dialects—AI Assistant’s text-to-speech helps your content resonate with a global audience. All you have to do is type or paste your script in the supported language you want AI Assistant to use. (Even though the voice description notes a specific accent or language, AI Assistant will generate the narration in the language used in your script.) Note that some voices tend to work best with certain accents or languages, so feel free to experiment with different voices to find the best fit for your needs. The table below provides a quick rundown of supported languages. Available in Multilingual v2 and Turbo v2.5: English (USA) English (UK) English (Australia) English (Canada) Japanese Chinese German Hindi French (France) French (Canada) Korean Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Italian Spanish (Spain) Spanish (Mexico) Indonesian Dutch Turkish Filipino Polish Swedish Bulgarian Romanian Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (UAE) Czech Greek Finnish Croatian Malay Slovak Danish Tamil Ukrainian Russian Available only in Turbo v2.5: Hungarian Norwegian Vietnamese Create Sound Effects Using Prompts Sound effects that align with your theme and content can highlight important actions or feedback, like clicking a button or choosing a correct answer, offering a more engaging and effective e-learning experience. With AI Assistant’s sound effects, you can now use prompts to easily create nearly any sound imaginable. No more wasting time scouring the web for pre-made sounds that may cost extra! Start creating high-quality sound effects by going to the AI Assistant menu in the ribbon under the Home or Insert tab. Then, click the lower half of the Insert Audio icon, and choose Sound Effects. (You can also access it from the Audio dropdown within the Insert tab. Simply select Sound Effects under the AI Audio option.) In the text box, describe the sound effect you want and choose a duration. You can adjust the Prompt influence slider to give AI Assistant more or less creative license in generating the sound. Since AI Assistant understands natural language, sound effects can be created using anything from a simple prompt like “a single mouse click” to a very complex one that describes multiple sounds or a sequence of sounds in a specific order. Just note you have a maximum of 450 characters to describe the sound you want to generate. Play the following audio samples to listen to sound effects created using a simple prompt and a complex one. Your browser does not support the audio element. Prompt: A single mouse click Your browser does not support the audio element. Prompt: Dogs barking, then lightning strikes You can also adjust the Duration—how long the sound effect plays—up to a maximum of 22 seconds. For example, if your prompt is “barking dog” and you set the duration to 10 seconds, you’ll get continuous barking, but a duration of two seconds is one quick bark. Adjusting the Prompt Influence slider to the right makes AI Assistant strictly adhere to your prompt, while sliding it to the left allows more free interpretation. Some Pro Terms to Know Using audio terminology—specialized vocabulary that audio experts use in their work—can help improve your prompts and produce even more dynamic sound effects. Here are a few examples: Braam: A deep, resonant, and often distorted bass sound used in media, particularly in trailers, to create a sense of tension, power, or impending doom. Whoosh: A quick, swooshing sound often used to emphasize fast motion, transitions, or dramatic moments. Impact: A sharp, striking noise used to signify a collision, hit, or sudden forceful contact, often to highlight a moment of action or emphasis. Glitch: A short, jarring, and usually digital noise that mimics a malfunction or distortion, commonly used to convey errors. Foley: The process of recreating and recording everyday sound effects like movements and object sounds in sync with the visuals of a film, videos, or other media. Here’s something fun to try! Generate a 3-second sound effect using the prompt “studio quality, sound designed whoosh and braam impact.” Increasing the duration may produce better sound effects but will also create more dead air towards the end. Pro tip: Onomatopoeias—words like “buzz,” “boom,” “click,” and “pop” that imitate natural sounds—are also important sound effects terms. Use them in your prompts to create more realistic sound effects. Video Tutorials Want to learn more before getting started? Check out our video tutorials for additional guidance on using AI Assistant to generate text-to-speech and sound effects. Create AI-generated Text-to-Speech Create AI-generated Sound Effects Articulate 360 Training also has additional video tutorials on using other AI Assistant features. Use AI Assistant features in Rise 360 Use AI Assistant features in Storyline 360 You must be logged in to your Articulate 360 account to watch the videos. Don’t have an account yet? Sign up for a free trial now!7KViews13likes0CommentsAI Assistant: Setting the Stage for AI Magic
Before diving into the course creation process, you want your authoring tool to be tailored to your specific requirements so you can focus on developing high-quality content. With features designed to streamline your workflow, AI Assistant allows you to do just that. Available only in Rise 360, AI Assistant’s course outline generation and AI settings features boost your efficiency—setting the stage for AI magic! Get a Head Start Just as a builder uses a blueprint, course authors depend on a well-organized outline to guide learners toward their objectives. AI Assistant’s course outline generation feature jumpstarts your course creation process by instantly generating a course title, description, and full set of lesson titles based on your chosen topic or source material. To get started, click the Create New button on the left of the Rise 360 dashboard, hover on Course, and choose Start with AI. Using custom prompts, guide AI Assistant by describing your topic, target audience, and learning objectives. The more details you provide, the better the suggestions will be. If you have existing source content, upload it for AI Assistant’s reference. Otherwise, you can rely on AI Assistant’s general knowledge. Pro tip: Currently, AI Assistant doesn’t use Bloom’s Taxonomy or other similar frameworks when analyzing what you enter in the learning objectives field. Therefore, you’ll get the best results by entering high-level topics or traditionally formatted learning objectives. For instance, if you enter “Tennis rules” as a high-level objective, AI Assistant generates a generic outline based on that topic. If you want specific outcomes, however, you might enter “Learners will be able to summarize the rules of tennis” to generate more targeted output. AI Assistant will generate a few course title suggestions first—you can pick one from the list or make further changes. Then you can proceed with the outline generation. Refine the outline as needed before applying it. For example, you can edit the number of lessons, change the lesson titles, or reorganize the lesson order. Once you’re happy with the result, click Insert Course Outline. From there, you can use AI Assistant to add content to each lesson by clicking the Add Content button next to the lesson title. When you generate a new block inside a lesson using AI Assistant, you’ll see suggested topics based on your course outline. At any time you want to review your AI-generated course outline, click the View course outline button below the title on the course overview page. This opens the AI settings window to the Course outline tab. You can also click AI Assistant in the top right, select AI settings, and then click the Course outline tab. Here, you can copy the course outline content with just a click. However, this view doesn’t reflect any changes made to the lesson titles after the course outline generation, only the course title updates. Keep Any Documents Handy As a course author, you probably start gathering assets and reference materials right after choosing a topic and writing an outline. While you can now generate content from scratch using AI, you may also want to create courses based on existing documents. You can import source documents to use as a reference whenever you want to generate new content using AI Assistant. But instead of uploading reference materials each time, you can keep them all in one place by uploading them in the Source content tab of the AI settings window before you start. Access AI settings from the AI Assistant dropdown menu in the upper right. Drag and drop files into the Source content tab or click Choose file to upload them. Supported file types and limitations are listed in the following table. Document File Extension File Size Limit Character Limit Portable Document Format .PDF 100 MB 200,000 characters Microsoft Word .DOC , .DOCX 100 MB 200,000 characters Microsoft PowerPoint .PPT , .PPTX 100 MB 200,000 characters Text .TEXT , .TXT 100 MB 200,000 characters Captions .VTT , .SRT , .SBV , .SUB 100 MB 200,000 characters Note that AI Assistant only references extractable text in your source document. Images, audio, video, and content found in the Notes section of a PowerPoint file are not included. Pro tip: To use an existing Rise 360 course as source content, export the course to PDF, then upload the resulting file. For Storyline 360, publish the course as a Word document. While there’s no hard limit on how many files you can upload to use as source content for AI Assistant, we recommend uploading only what you need for faster processing. If you don’t have entire files as reference, you can also copy and paste content from the source into the text box provided.3.8KViews12likes0CommentsAI Assistant: Essential Tips to Unlock its Full Potential
Generative AI’s rapidly advancing capabilities are transforming the way we work. In e-learning, generative AI can be a valuable partner in course authoring. That’s why we designed AI Assistant—a powerful ally in your course creation journey, seamlessly integrated into the Articulate 360 apps you already use. Whether you’re a newbie eager to kickstart your course creation journey or a seasoned instructional designer looking to leverage AI for more efficient authoring, you’ll be ready to unlock the full potential of AI Assistant with the essential tips contained in the articles linked below. AI Assistant: Setting the Stage for AI Magic AI Assistant: Creating, Refining, and Converting Blocks AI Assistant: Using Magic Text Import to Transform Existing Content AI Assistant: Writing and Editing Inline Content AI Assistant: Creating Images Using Prompts AI Assistant: Building Effective Quizzes and Knowledge Checks AI Assistant: Summarizing Swiftly with Summary Generation AI Assistant: Producing Highly Realistic Audio12KViews9likes0CommentsRise: Text to Speech Function
Hello, After countless hours of importing the TTS that I have created in Storyline into Rise to promote accessibility and provide learners with a different way of experiencing the content I build, would this be possible to implement as a feature within Rise? The standard TTS or the new AI version could be added, and could potentially auto generate text to speech for the entire page, or to the next continue button or divider. Adding the ability to correct and edit the text later for any acronyms that don't sound quite right would also be helpful. I believe it would massively speed up the time to create content for other users who may well be doing the same thing, along with all of the other AI features.86Views7likes1CommentTranslation / localization
Hi, We currently have our course in English only, but more and more we get requests to translate the content. The content is mostly text and speech (generated with the text to speech feature). I know about the feature on how to export, translate and import again, but now with AI and LLM and translation tools like DeepL is there a smarter and easier way to do it than duplicating slides and courses in different languages? Anyone with ideas, experience or suggestions? I am happy to hear what you think.166Views7likes2CommentsAI Assistant: Using Magic Text Import to Transform Existing Content
Turning content from a separate document into an interactive block used to require copying and pasting paragraph by paragraph. Now, with AI Assistant, you can simply copy and paste your content into the Magic Text Import dialog box. Your content is automatically arranged into a process block, accordion, or tabs interaction—while your original wording stays intact. Available only in Rise 360, magic text import can be accessed from the AI Assistant menu in the upper right or from the AI Blocks menu within the block library. Please note that importing media such as images, audio, and video is currently unavailable as we continue to improve this AI Assistant feature. While magic text import can save you a ton of time, you’ll get the best results if you follow some simple conventions when formatting your source document. Read on to see examples of some formatting Do’s and Don’ts. Process Blocks To get a process block complete with an intro, steps, and a summary, organize your source content by paragraphs with headings. The table below shows the formatting that gives the best results. Do: Use Paragraphs with Heading Labels Intro: Cake Baking Process Baking a cake is a delightful and rewarding experience that combines creativity with culinary skills. Whether for a special occasion or just a treat for yourself, following the right steps ensures a delicious outcome. Step 1: Gather Ingredients Start by gathering all necessary ingredients: flour, sugar, eggs, butter, baking powder, and vanilla extract. Make sure to measure them accurately for the best results. Step 2: Mix the Batter In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Gradually incorporate the flour and baking powder, followed by the vanilla extract, until the batter is smooth. Step 3: Bake the Cake Pour mixed batter into a greased pan and place into a preheated oven. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Summary: Enjoy Your Delicious Treat In conclusion, baking a cake involves gathering ingredients, mixing them properly, and following a systematic approach. With practice, anyone can master the art of cake baking and enjoy the delicious results. Some formatting conventions tend to produce unexpected or less satisfactory results and should be avoided. For example, skipping paragraph breaks—as shown in the table below—may result in a process block with empty steps or an incorrect summary. Don’t: Skip Paragraph Breaks Intro: Cake Baking Process - Baking a cake is a delightful and rewarding experience that combines creativity with culinary skills. Whether for a special occasion or just a treat for yourself, following the right steps ensures a delicious outcome. Labeling paragraphs with markers like “description”—as the table below demonstrates—may result in repetition within your process block. Don’t: Label Paragraphs Intro: Cake Baking Process Description: Baking a cake is a delightful and rewarding experience that combines creativity with culinary skills. Whether for a special occasion or just a treat for yourself, following the right steps ensures a delicious outcome. Finally, using list numbers or bullets in your process steps—as the below example shows—may cause AI Assistant to make every item a process step, with no introduction or summary. Don’t: Use Bullets or Numbers Gather Ingredients: Flour Sugar Eggs Butter Baking powder Vanilla extract Make sure to measure them accurately for the best results. Accordion and Tabs Interactions For accordion and tabs blocks, AI Assistant turns headings into titles and the corresponding paragraphs into related content. Organize your source content by paragraphs with headings for best results. If you don’t provide a heading, AI Assistant will generate titles based on the content. However, if you skip the headings and format the paragraphs as a bullet or numbered list, the content may not import correctly. The below table offers a side-by-side comparison of formatting Do’s and Don’ts for the best results when using magic text import to create accordion and tabs interactions. Do: Use Paragraphs Headings Don’t: Skip headings and format the paragraphs as a bullet or numbered list Various Breeds of Cats Various breeds of cats have distinct characteristics and traits. From the sleek Siamese to the fluffy Maine Coon, they come in a wide range of sizes, colors, and temperaments. Known for their agility and hunting skills, cats often display playful antics. Their ability to purr and knead with their paws adds to their charm, creating a soothing presence that many find comforting. Physical Attributes and Behaviors Cats exhibit a variety of behaviors that reflect their unique personalities. The energetic Bengal enjoys interactive play, while the laid-back Ragdoll prefers lounging and being pampered. Understanding these traits can help potential cat owners choose a breed that aligns with their lifestyle. Bond Between Cats and Humans The bond between cats and humans can be incredibly rewarding. Many cat owners find joy in the companionship their feline friends provide. Cats sense their owner's emotions and often offer comfort during stressful times, further enhanced by playful interactions and affectionate behaviors, making them beloved members of many households. 1. Various breeds of cats have distinct characteristics and traits. From the sleek Siamese to the fluffy Maine Coon, they come in a wide range of sizes, colors, and temperaments. Known for their agility and hunting skills, cats often display playful antics. Their ability to purr and knead with their paws adds to their charm, creating a soothing presence that many find comforting. 2. Cats exhibit a variety of behaviors that reflect their unique personalities. The energetic Bengal enjoys interactive play, while the laid-back Ragdoll prefers lounging and being pampered. Understanding these traits can help potential cat owners choose a breed that aligns with their lifestyle. 3. The bond between cats and humans can be incredibly rewarding. Many cat owners find joy in the companionship their feline friends provide. Cats sense their owner's emotions and often offer comfort during stressful times, further enhanced by playful interactions and affectionate behaviors, making them beloved members of many households. Pro tip: Stuck coming up with a title? AI Assistant’s block editing feature can shorten the first sentence of each paragraph to create a title for your accordion or tabs blocks.2.6KViews7likes0Comments
