New natural-sounding voices come to Read Aloud

Office Insiders! Emily Tran, Program Manager on the Office Voice team is excited to share that we are continuing to improve the Read Aloud feature, adding new and more natural-sounding voices in Word and Outlook for Windows.

Read Aloud in Word and Outlook is a great way to both author and read content. Whether you use it to “proof-listen” to a document or an email to catch errors, or simply to give your eyes a break, you want to hear your content read by natural-sounding voices.

Some of you shared that you felt that the original voices sounded too robotic, and you were looking for more natural-sounding reading voices, like the ones we offer for the Read Aloud feature in Microsoft Edge. In response to this feedback, we’re happy to add these new and improved options!

For more detailed descriptions of the update, requirements and more, please read our original blog post.

Find out how it works here. 

Cheers,
Iqra

Office Insider Community Manager