Can you speed up the player in Articulate 360?

I agree that this would be a great and welcome option in Studio and Storyline. Nearly all modern online video players all the viewer to adjust the playback speed. In most cases, the speed changes, but the pitch stays the same. Adjusting the speed would also need to proportionally effect any animations or other movement on screen.

Slower can work better for learners who are non-native English speakers or when the speaker has a strong accent. Faster is great when the speaker is a little slow to keep attention.

I'll be submitting a feature request. 

Joe

Are there plans to add increasing speed to the Player so that all elements of the timeline are sped up and not just videos? I think that is what's really  needed. 

some video players allow for you to increase speed of the audio.

I also agree that it would be a great and wanted option. People does have different tempers and some want slow speed others fast and even very fast speed. 

We have several feedbacks wanting this option.

Is there any news on this?  It's something a lot of other SCORM publishing tools seem to allow?

E.g. users can participate at 1.5x 2x speed etc.  I've used materials like this myself and it's a great time saver / doesn't really take anything away.

It *should* be as simple as speeding up the timeline?

There is another thread on this..with more feedback from Articulate Staff.

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/changing-speed-of-audio-in-articulate-storyline

I second this motion strongly. our users are young medical students who want to absorb teaching materials at individual speed. in all honesty, i think this is a feature should be a natural part of any application nowadays. this feels outdated. 

There are a bunch of requests and threads for this feature going back as far as seven years. And as far as I can tell Storyline (which usually excels in everything else) is one of the only major authoring/learning tools without this option. Youtube, Audible, Vimeo, Linkedin Learning, and EVEN Captivate let you do this. As well as most LMS' built-in authoring tools... Is there any update on this request? I don't want to move to other authoring tools but this is a feature that our audiences expect in 2020.

I'd like to add to this from the perspective of the broadcast techs whom I'm creating technical training modules for - several of them have asked if I could make the ability to speed up the timeline available in my modules.

They tell me that they frequently use YouTube clips to learn about "stuff" and they use it as follows:

• They get used to the presenter's style and voice at 1X  speed initially
• They speed up to 1.5X for a short while to adjust their attention
• They speed up to 2X speed for most of the clip once they've adjusted to 1.5X and continue at that speed for the remainder
• If they find they miss something they rewind and replay at 1X or 1.5X and then continue at 2X

I have actually made quite an effort (as a quick-speaking Kiwi) to slow down my narration and I use Animation to introduce each paragraph of text linked to my recorded delivery, and I've been at pains to ensure that learners can assimilate the speech and the text, but it seems that this doesn't suit everyone and some (perhaps more who haven't spoken to me yet) would really like the ability to control delivery speed in order to get through the simple / basic material quicker, yet concentrate on the more complex material at 1X speed.

I think this would be a very worthwhile feature to add to Storyline if it's feasible.

Thankyou!

Hi,

My code that controls the speed of the video can also work with audio. Attached is a version of the code, where I changed out the JavaScript call of document.querySelectorAll('video') to document.querySelectorAll('audio') in the control buttons, and this seemed to work.

Like before, you have to sum up ALL the audio bits in the entire Storyline file, then set the variable "numberOfVideos" (I didn't change the name but you can if you want - probably "numberOfAudios" might make sense if you don't mind a little grammatical ugliness) to that summed number. For example, if you have 15 slides, all with a single audio layer, you need to set this number to 15. [It's really a constant & never changes value — Storyline doesn't allow for constants per se, nor arrays (grrrrr.)]

This isn't as nice as Matt's code using GSAP, but it does have the benefit of being a little more universal. I'm just wary of Articulate perhaps dropping GSAP like they did jQuery.

This code will still make the Seek bar fall out of sync with the audio playback, but perhaps you could use the play media triggers, and not use the player timeline. It all kind of depends if you really want to tie the audio to the slide timeline. If that's not a big deal, you could drop the Seek bar, use the Play Media trigger, and then put up an animated GIF (see attached) in the corner to inform the view that an indeterminate-length audio bit is playing back - then make it disappear  when the audio is done playing. This approach is a little less intrusive IMO if you have a long audio monolog, which we have unfortunately many times in our courses.

HTH, 

Mark