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Build Compelling Courses Up to 9x Faster with Articulate’s AI Assistant
Speed up content creation and unleash your creativity with this exciting new product.
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AI 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 Audio
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Accelerate Course Creation with AI Assistant
Create courses in minutes instead of days with AI Assistant, a powerful AI information and automation tool. Seamlessly integrated into Articulate 360 apps, AI Assistant is designed to supercharge your course development process. As your new partner in course creation, AI Assistant unlocks creativity and boosts productivity. You remain in control throughout the process—from outlining and drafting to iterating and refining—while creating high-quality content faster than ever. Explore the articles below to learn how to use AI Assistant, find answers to frequently asked questions, and discover tips and best practices to unlock this tool’s full potential. Rise 360 User Guides Rise 360: Get Started with AI Assistant Rise 360: Create Content with AI Assistant Storyline 360 User Guides Storyline 360: Get Started with AI Assistant Storyline 360: Create Content with AI Assistant Tips and Best Practices AI Assistant: Essential Tips to Unlock its Full Potential Content Library 360 and AI Assistant: Boost Visual Interest with Stock or AI-Generated Images Storyline 360: Enrich Audio Narrations with Classic or AI-Generated Text-to-Speech FAQs Articulate 360 FAQs: Articulate AI
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Say Hello to Some of Your Most-Requested Features
Find out why we’re even more excited than usual about our latest release.
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Storyline 360: Get Started with AI Assistant
Accelerate course creation with an insightful AI Assistant that’s seamlessly integrated into Storyline 360. Effortlessly compose compelling copy, generate high-quality images, and more. Keep reading to familiarize yourself with AI Assistant in Storyline 360, or if you’re ready, dive in to learn how to use each feature to boost productivity and enhance creativity. You can even go further with tips to unlock the power of AI in e-learning. Did you know AI Assistant is also available in Rise 360? Check out the Rise 360 user guide to get started. Access AI Assistant Tools Manage Access to AI Assistant AI Resources Provide Feedback Access AI Assistant Tools The view you select determines which AI Assistant tools are accessible. For example: In Story View, you can create AI-generated quizzes, individual question slides, and summaries. In Slide View, you can write and edit inline, plus create AI-generated images, quizzes, individual question slides, summaries, text to speech, and sound effects. In Form View, you can generate and edit question slides from the Question tab on the ribbon. In the AI Assistant tab on the side panel, you can share feedback and access the available AI tools depending on your selected view—as described above. From the context menu, you can edit inline and generate images. If some AI Assistant tools are grayed out, they’re not supported in your view or you didn't select the text you want to edit. Why can’t I access AI Assistant? If the AI Assistant tools aren't active, then your Articulate 360 Teams admin disabled Articulate AI on the Teams dashboard. If the AI Assistant tools aren’t visible at all, the feature is unavailable for your account. Contact your Articulate 360 Teams administrator for assistance. Manage Access to AI Assistant Learn how to access or disable AI Assistant below. Articulate AI can also be removed completely on the subscription level. Read on to find out more about managing access: Access AI Assistant AI Assistant is available as part of the Articulate 360 AI package. When an account owner upgrades to Articulate 360 AI, all users/seats in their subscription gain access to AI Assistant. There’s no option to activate or purchase AI Assistant only for selected users/seats on a subscription. For more information, visit our pricing page. Disable AI Assistant Account owners and admins can disable AI Assistant for all team members from the Articulate 360 Teams dashboard. In this state, AI Assistant tools still display in Rise 360 and Storyline 360 but aren’t functional. Note: Account owners can also emailsales@articulate.com to request that Articulate AI features, including AI Assistant, be removed from their subscriptions. In this state, Articulate AI features and functionality are hidden from Rise 360 and Storyline 360. Learn more. AI Resources Want to get more out of AI Assistant? Delve into AI best practices and browse our collection of FAQs to find answers to common questions quickly. Provide Feedback What do you think of AI Assistant? Your feedback helps us build and improve tools that unlock a whole new level of productivity. To give our Engineering team direct feedback, go to the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click the Share feedback button.
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AI 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 forStability 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!
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Rise 360: Get Started with AI Assistant
Maximize productivity with AI Assistant, an AI information and automation tool now seamlessly integrated into Rise 360. Generate content and images, refine existing content, and more. Getting started is quick and easy. Keep reading to discover how to access AI Assistant and how it can help you at the course overview level. When you’re ready, learn how to use AI Assistant to create content in lessons. Then, check out some tips to help you get the most out of AI Assistant. Did you know AI Assistant is also available in Storyline 360? Check out the Storyline 360 user guide to learn more. Access AI Assistant Adjust Training-wide Settings Manage AI Assistant Access and Provide Feedback Access AI Assistant When you open a Rise 360 course or microlearning, click the AI Assistant button in the upper right corner to display the AI Assistant menu. AI Assistant button inactive or you don't see it at all? If features on the AI Assistant button aren't active, then your Articulate 360 Teams administrator has disabled Articulate AI on the Teams dashboard. If you don't see the AI Assistant button at all, the feature is unavailable for your account. Contact your Articulate 360 Teams administrator for assistance. Features are grouped together based on the section of training to which they apply. The options at the bottom of the menu are available at any time. Simply click an active option to get started. Adjust Training-wide Settings Click AI Settings to access training-wide settings and upload source content. Click Done when you're finished adjusting your settings. These settings apply to the current training only. You can access AI Settings from anywhere in your training. Documents Drag and drop or click Choose files to upload source documentation for AI Assistant to use in the current training. AI Assistant can process .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .text, and .txt files that are 100MB or smaller and have 200,000 characters or fewer. Once your documents have been uploaded, you can select one or more of them whenever AI Assistant prompts you to specify source documentation. Note that AI Assistant only references extractable text in your source document, skipping images, audio, video, and content found in the Notes section of a .ppt file. Pro Tip: If you want AI Assistant to include content from the Notes section, print the content to PDF or copy it into a text file. Then you can upload it as a source document. Green checkmarks appear next to successfully analyzed documents that are ready for use. To delete a source, hover over the title and click the trash icon that appears. You can also manage this list wherever source documentation is used. Course Outline This tab contains outline results If you created your course bygenerating an outline. Currently, this view doesn’t reflect changes you make to the lesson titles after the course outline is generated, but it does reflect course title updates. Manage AI Assistant Access and Provide Feedback Admins can turn AI Assistant off for all team members from the Articulate 360 Teams Dashboard. The AI Assistant button still displays in Rise 360 and Storyline 360 but the features aren't functional. To disable and hide Articulate 360 AI features completely, please reach out to Support. We'll be glad to help. We want to hear about your experiences with and ideas for improving AI Assistant in Rise 360. To provide our Engineering team with direct feedback on Articulate AI features, select Share feedback on AI from the AI Assistant menu. Need more information? Check out our FAQs to quickly find answers to common questions, or dive into our tips to get the most out of Articulate AI.
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AI 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 files include PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT/PPTX, and TXT/TEXT of 100 MB or less that contain up to 200,000 characters. Note that AI Assistant only references extractable text in your source document, skipping images, audio, video, and content found in the Notes section of a PowerPoint file. 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.
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AI Assistant Released: Pricing Details and Resources Available
Here is everything you need to get started with Articulate 360 AI including pricing information.
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Getting Started with Articulate AI in Storyline
Introduction We’re proud to announce that Articulate AI features are now available in Storyline! These new tools make it easier than ever to create and perfect your courses. Not sure where to start? We’ve put together a Storyline practice file you can use to get to know the AI Assistant. Whether you’re an experienced AI user or totally new to it, you can use these resources to improve your skills. Ready to jump in? Download the storyline file and follow the directions below. You can also follow along with a webinar on the Articulate Training site. Create AI Voiceovers AI Assistant can help you create lifelike voiceovers in a snap. You can also generate automatic captions to improve accessibility. Follow these steps to learn how: In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon. From there, there are three ways to access the feature: Click Insert Audio to open the Generate AI Audio window with the Text-to-Speech tab selected. Click the Insert Audio dropdown menu and select Text-to-Speech. Open the AI Assistant tab on the side panel and click Generate text-to-speech. In the Generate AI Audio window, select a voice from the voice dropdown menu. To preview a voice, click the play button. Insert text. You can also adjust Stability, Similarity, Style exaggeration, and Speaker boost under Advanced settings. Click Generate speech. Click Insert to add your narration to a slide. Write and Edit Inline Generating and refining content has never been easier. AI Assistant can help you update tone, check grammar, improve readability, reformat copy, expand ideas, and more. Practice in your file with these instructions: In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Insert Text. Type a prompt in the text-entry field or let your AI Assistant help you generate content in various formats. When you’re done, click the paper plane icon to start the text-generation process. You also have multiple ways to start editing with AI: In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon, select the text object, then click Edit Text. Click a prompt that suits your needs. Highlight the text and click the sparkle icon in the floating toolbar that appears. Generate Images AI Assistant can create high-quality images in various prebuilt styles–or, enter your own style preferences and create endless imagery for your courses. Get started by following these steps: In Slide View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Insert Image. Or, go to the AI Assistant side panel and click Generate image. You can also right-click on an existing image and select Replace Picture, then select Generate Image with AI. In the Generate AI Image window, type a prompt in the description field. Select an image style from the Style drop-down list and choose the aspect ratio: landscape (16:9), square (1:1), or portrait mode (9:16). Click Generate Image to start the image-generation process. To add an image to your media library, hover over an image and select the media library icon. Or, select Add all to media library in the bottom right corner of the generation panel. To view enlarged versions of each image, hover over an image, click the view button, then use the navigation buttons to view each result. If you don’t like any of the results, click Generate Again. Try adjusting your prompt for different results. Click Insert Image to add an image to your slide. If you’re replacing an existing image, click Replace. You can select multiple images by pressing Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all simultaneously. Generate Knowledge Checks Want to find out what your learners retained? AI Assistant can help you quickly create questions, answers, and feedback. Try it for yourself using these instructions: In Slide View or Story View, go to the Home or Insert tab on the ribbon and click Question. Or, go to the AI Assistant side panel and click Generate question. In the Generate Question window, select the content you’d like the AI to incorporate into the knowledge check. Click Continue. Type a topic in the prompt field. Use AI Assistant to modify the draft. When your draft is ready, click Insert to insert the knowledge check as a new slide. Additional Features AI Assistant offers even more ways to help optimize your Storyline workflow! Open up one of your courses and try these other features: Quiz generation. AI Assistant can incorporate content across different slides to create a comprehensive quiz. Summary Generation. Use AI Assistant to create a snappy wrap-up of your course based on multiple slides. Wrap-up These practice materials will guide you through the fundamentals of using AI Assistant in Storyline. Did you know you can also use AI Assistant in Rise? Go to your Rise dashboard and download “Getting Started With AI Assistant in Rise 360” to learn and practice more. This template will work for folks using Storyline 360, the continuously updated version of Storyline included in Articulate 360. Want to try it out? Get a free trial of Articulate 360 right here. And subscribe to our newsletter to find out about other helpful downloads.
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