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After upgrading my laptop to Windows 11, I tried Read Aloud in Word. To my surprise there were several voice options that were not there when I was using Windows 10. Then, after a week of using it to proofread my manuscript, I rebooted my laptop (something I do regularly to ensure updates) and the Read Aloud was ****. I tried to change back to the good voice and there were only the standard three voices (David, Zira, Mark). I worked with Microsoft support, who reinstall my Office 19 twice before finally saying there were only the three voices and I had to live with it.
Was I in some weird twilight zone for a week and not in the real world? What happened to my good Read Aloud voice? and how can I get it back?
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They told me it will be automatic with the normal software update. So far it hasn't worked.
Worth a try. Thanks....
I went to https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ and explained the issue. Try that.
So this is the problem in tech-y terms:
Office 365 embeds voices rather than drawing upon voices that are available in the Windows operating system.
This means that no matter what you do to the registry and no matter how many voice packs you download, this will not solve / change the voices that pop up in word, outlook or any other app/program.
This really is something that MS needs to fix on their end, through an update. There is no real way for a normal customer to change the embedded voices in MS Office 365.
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Sadly, the best 'fix' for this is to get on amazon or ebay and buy Office 2019 as a stand alone program, install it and never update it!
I don't suppose they gave you any idea how to download these alleged voices, did they?