Suddenly prohibited from using my home photos in Copilot images
As a fan of old B-Movies, I've been creating fictitious B-Movie posters with Copilot. I've been using the faces of myself and wife from home photos for the faces of the "stars" on these posters. Suddenly, copilot says my home photo are copyrighted and can't be used. From Copilot - "The image generation was blocked due to copyright concerns, likely because the uploaded photo contains recognizable faces. I can’t generate an image using those likenesses." It can't even use the photos to create images that are similar to our faces. I own the home photo, so clearly, I have the rights to it. The file even has the date, camera, settings, etc... This is beyond frustrating! If there is a question of ownership or copyright, Microsoft should have some sort of release form I can post to Copilot when I want to use a home photo. I've not has this problem with any other AI Image Creation. However, Copilot had been creating the best artwork, and I would like to continue to use it. How can this be rectified?
Persistent issues with Read Aloud in Edge
I have Windows 11. Today I began having an issue wherein the Read Aloud feature built into Edge doesn't work. I was initially trying to use a similar function on Internet Archive, and noticed that while all the Microsoft voices seemed to be available in the onsite dropdown, the only voices that made any sound were David, Mark, and Zira---none of the "Online (Natural)" voices. I tried to use Read Aloud as a workaround, and found all the buttons greyed out completely. Mind you, everything worked fine yesterday, and I made no changes to my computer in the intervening time. I've opened up two support tickets, but neither live chat agent was able to resolve the issue. Here are the things I've tried with their help: trying the feature on different websites updating & restarting Edge resetting Edge settings to defaults updating & restarting computer switching wifi networks connecting to a hotspot using InPrivate mode using a new Edge profile (rule out interference from extensions) checking that English tts is downloaded in Time & language > Language & region turning Online speech recognition off and back on again resetting experimental features checking sound systems (they work, but just in case) doing a system reset (?) to 24 hours ago, which took about an hour and undid all the updates I just mentioned maybe something else I don't remember? The next thing I am going to try is give my computer a long nap. It's been a while, so maybe it just needs some shut eye. Otherwise, help????
