Text-To-Speech Options and Exporting as a Video Slideshow (Premium Subscription)

What is text-to-speech?

The Text to Speech Narration is a feature for the video slideshow. This means that the cueing text will be read to the viewer as the sequence plays through. If you are just using the generated PDF, you do not have to worry about this. Below we will go through the different setting options for Text-to-Speech (abbreviated TTS). 

Before we start, you can scan the QR code below or click here for an example of the TTS narration in action.

How to Edit Text-To-Speech

When actively building your sequence, you will be able to listen to the text-to-speech narration for each blurb of cueing text you write. You will see a play button within the cueing text window labeled "Preview this text in text-to-speech"  

To access the general cueing text options, select Player in the top right hand corner. This will take you to the preview of your sequence so far and is also where you can access the general TTS settings. 

Once you are in the Preview screen you will see a settings cog icon at the top of the screen by the sequence name. Click on this button. 

A window like the one below will pop up. 

"Pose Chime": When toggled on, a chime will play when it progresses from one pose to the next.  If you select off, your client, or whomever is watching your sequence, will still be able to turn it on if they need to. )*

"Cueing Text-To-Speech (TTS)": This slider (also called a toggle switch) is to turn the Text to Speech narration on or off in the video slideshow of your sequence. If you do not want the narration to read the instructional text for your client/recipient in the video slideshow, toggle this off. 

"Cueing TTS Moment": This setting decides when the narration is read.  There are two options, "Read before pose" or "Read during pose". If you select "Read before pose", the cueing text for each will be read before the pose begins to time down. If you select "Read during pose" the cueing text will be read as the pose is playing. If the cueing text is longer than the time selected (e.g. it takes 12 seconds to read the cueing text but the pose is only set to last for 10 seconds), the reading of the cueing text will supersede the timing of the pose. This means the pose will hold until the cueing text is done being read before moving on to the next. 

"Cueing TTS Voice": This setting allows you to choose the voice your instructional text is read in. In this drop down menu, you will see 5 English speaking voice options, 1 voice for Spanish, and 1 voice for French. The Spanish and French voices are for use when writing the cueing text in those languages. It will not translate for you. A play button next to this drop down menu will play an example of the selected voice. It is recommended to pause the example being read before switching voice options. We have found that sometimes switching between multiple voice while the sample audio from before is still playing can cause a glitch. This is an issue with the service we use to generate the audio and is not something we can address directly so we like to give our users this warning.

How to Share your Video Slideshow

Once you are ready to share your sequence select the "Share" button at the top of the screen located in between the play button and the settings button next to the sequence title 

This works the same way sharing a PDF would except that those on the receiving end will be able to view the playback directly.