eLearning Magic Toolkit V2.4 Introduces ElevenLabs API Integration For Your Articulate Storyline 360 Content!
With the release of eLearning Magic Toolkit V2.4 (April 2024) we’re excited to bring to you a simplified process for dynamically generating AI natural tone voices from the ElevenLabs platform to you Articulate Storyline 360 content!
Natural voice generation for things like voiceover tracks and narration are an area when generative AI is thriving the most. In just a short space of time, we have seen applications like ElevenLabs really explode in popularity due to their ease of use and capabilities for eLearning developers to generate their narration tracks much quicker than ever before.
What is the difference between using the ElevenLabs voice generation system (via elevenlabs.io) and using the API?
You may already be using ElevenLabs or a similar product for generating audio, and therefore understand how to render audio content with these systems to export and bring into Articulate Storyline ‘pre-prepared’ to play on slide. What the eLearning Magic Toolkit offers is the ability to dynamically generate these voice audio files ‘on the fly’. This presents a huge opportunity to enrich your dynamically generated content with rich narration that also plays to the learner, which makes its combination with the GPT-4 Turbo API from OpenAI an excellent combination.
Let’s say you have an eLearning activity where learners could potentially branch into different areas depending on their choices, perhaps it’s a scenario based exercise which could ultimately end in multiple outcomes. The learner, depending on the decisions they make during the activity, would be given a score and feedback based on the options they chose.
To pre-programme all of the possible feedback options that could be given to the user in such cases would take a lot of planning and development work, but this is potentially an area where generative AI could help. In this case, you could harness generative AI to write the feedback to the user completely bespoke based on their own personal performance (using the GPT-4 Turbo API to write this feedback to display on screen) whilst at the same time passing the same feedback generated as a script to be read by the ElevenLabs API. Once returned, it can be played back directly to the user from the slide to listen to, complete with playback controls as well if you want to build them in!
Important – Using the ElevenLabs API with the eLearning Magic Toolkit requires your own API key. The ElevenLabs platform is a premium system which might require a paid account depending on how much AI generated voice content you are intending to produce each month. There are various price points available which offer different upper limits on how much you can generate each month. Full information can be read on the ElevenLabs website – https://elevenlabs.io/pricing
In the upcoming knowledgebase article pages, we’ll give you the full set of instructions you need to get started working with the ElevenLabs API through your Articulate Storyline 360 content hosted on your WordPress platform.
If you are interested however in understanding how to build AI-enhanced eLearning experiences in Articulate Storyline 360 to be hosted on any platform, then the best place to develop your understanding is with our own Create eLearning Experiences Using ChatGPT And Articulate Storyline 360 Advanced eLearning Developer series online tutorial course!
Read the rest of our Knowledge Base pages to make the most of the eLearning Magic Toolkit.