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Where are Read Aloud voices for Micorsoft Word?
Thanks for the reply, Doug.
I'd already tried what you recommended but got nowhere with my Asus laptop running Win10 Pro. OTOH, my Dell Desktop running Win10 Home gives me access to several voices, including David and Zira, no problem.
The settings are the same on the two, only the Pro vs Home is different. Is that part of it? It's the laptop I need the voices on, so this is frustrating.
Here's something amusing: until recently, I was using LibreOffice rather than Word, and in LO I can get David and Zira to talk just fine. But I can't in Word? It was nonsense like this that moved me from Word to LO in the first place (after years of teaching Word to others!)
Would it be worthwhile to delete the voice packs and reinstall? Reinstall Windows?
Thanks,
Ed
See my response to the following thread in the Answers Forum:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/natural-voices-read-out-on-microsoft-word/99f0a028-1669-49f8-ab10-f24a61318502?LastReply=true#LastReply
- I've gone over your comment here and the link. As far as I can tell, I should be all set up to get David and Zira natural voices, but Word persists in offering only male and female robots on my Asus. Very frustrating. Any other suggestions? Reinstall? Reinstall Windows?
- What version and build of Office are you using? Here, I have Version 2202 (Build 14931.20132 Click-to-Run) Current Channel.