Can I generate audio versions of course content?

Yes. With the AI Audio feature, Coursebox can automatically convert written text into professional-sounding audio clips. You can choose from different voices, languages, and accents, and even select a preferred gender for the voiceover. This is ideal for accessibility, mobile learning, or engaging auditory learners. 

Coursebox allows Learning Designers, Creators, and Administrators to automatically generate AI-powered audio versions of HTML text blocks on each course page. This feature enhances accessibility and learner engagement by offering content in both written and spoken formats.

AI Text-to-Audio Overview

When you generate a course in Coursebox, AI audio is automatically created for each HTML text block (if AI audio is enabled). These audio files are based on the text content of the page and can be regenerated at any time.

While Coursebox automates much of this process, maintaining alignment between audio and on-screen content is important for learner clarity and overall course quality.

Why Audio Alignment Matters

When AI audio does not match the visible content or structure of a page, learners may:

• Become confused if the narration references content they cannot yet see

• Miss key information if headings or page order have changed

• Experience accessibility issues if AI audio and screen readers differ

• Perceive the course as unpolished or unreliable

Good alignment ensures that:

• Audio matches the current text on the page

• Information is presented in the correct order

• Audio reflects content updates after edits are made

Set AI Text to Audio Options

The steps are:

• If you generate a course, we automatically will create AI audio files on each page from the text in the HTML text block. 

Set Hands Free Mode

This is an enhancement to the AI text to audio option. This enables a user to consume and listen to everything that's on the page. This serves as both an accessibility enhancement as well as a convenience enhancement for a variety of users with different learnings styles. 

To enable this feature, please take the following steps

• Learners can view this mode when they're within the course and creators can access this feature by using the 'preview' function while editing a course (shown below)

• When in the course in either of the above ways, press the toggle button next to the speaker icon at the top right hand side

• This will begin to read out all of the text on screen so that learners can consume the subject matter relatively hands free. 
• Please note that the course creator will have to ensure that the course has enabled the audio within the settings (shown below)

Add Audio to Text Blocks

The AI Audio menu lets you control whether AI-generated audio is applied to your course text blocks. You can enable it for the entire course or for individual sections.

The steps are:

• Go to the AI Audio settings.
• Toggle Add AI-generated audio to all text blocks to the Enabled position (purple).
• All current and future HTML text blocks in the course will have AI audio automatically generated. 

Choose Voice Accent and Language

Coursebox now lets you customise the AI voice used for audio content by selecting from a range of accents and languages. This feature enhances accessibility and allows you to tailor the listening experience to better suit your audience.

The steps are:

1. Open your course.
2. Go to Audio Settings 
3. Use the dropdown to select your desired Accent/Language.

Tip: For multilingual audiences, consider localising key content in multiple languages using this feature.

Select Gender

To give you even greater control over the tone and feel of your course audio, Coursebox now supports gender selection for AI-generated voices. You can choose between male, female, or neutral voices (where available) to better match your content style and learner preferences.

The steps are:

1. Go to Audio settings
2. Choose a gender from the Voice Gender Options list.

Best Practice: Consider testing both genders for tone clarity and learner comfort, especially for narration-heavy content.

Reset All Audio

Made changes to your course or want to update all audio files? 

The Reset All Audio feature lets you regenerate every AI-generated audio clip in your course using your latest settings.

This is useful when you have:

• Changed the voice accent or language
• Updated the voice gender
• Made significant text changes in your course content.

For more information on AI tools go to: AI Tools & Elements