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Where are Read Aloud voices for Micorsoft Word?
I'm trying to use Read Aloud in Word and can only get access to "male" and "female" voices. I know there are others, Msft David, Msft Zira, and a whole bunch of others. I've used them in other progra...
Based on some tests performed here, the voices that are available appear to depend upon the proofing language that has been applied to the text.
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
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.
- From the Voices drop-down at Windows>Settings>Time & Language>Speech, do you see the list of Microsoft personalities - Hortense, Stefan, George, David, Cosimo, Hazel, Susan, Hedda, Zira, Catherine, Julie, Katja, Elsa, Mark, Paul, Sean, James? If not, make sure that Windows is up to date.
If yes, then try performing an On-Line repair of Office via the Control Panel. See the Knowledge Base article at:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Repair-an-Office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b?CorrelationId=1b0030f4-8cc5-4485-b495-810e2a7d1284&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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