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EJBSFO
Mar 04, 2022Copper Contributor
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...
EJBSFO
Mar 12, 2022Copper Contributor
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?
Mar 12, 2022
What version and build of Office are you using? Here, I have Version 2202 (Build 14931.20132 Click-to-Run) Current Channel.
- EJBSFOMar 12, 2022Copper Contributor
- Mar 12, 2022From 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
:- EJBSFOMar 13, 2022Copper ContributorI see David, George, Linda, Hazel, Susan, Catherine, Zira, Sabina, Richard, Mark, James, Raul and Sean. None of the others you mentioned, though. It's set to Microsoft Zira.
ASUS laptop runs Windows 10 Pro, 100% up to date. 21H2 19044.1586. I update weekly.
I removed Office completely, including using the SARA tool, then reinstalled, opened a doc, and the voices available are as before: male and female.
Why this is happening on my laptop (where I do my writing) and not my desktop I do not understand. Only difference is the desktop, a new Dell XPS, has Win10 home with intel i7, the laptop, a 1 year old Ryzen, runs Win10 pro.
Getting frustrated by this, though please know I much appreciate your help.
Ed