"To choose what voice you hear while using Read Aloud, sign in with your Microsoft account."

Anonymous
2023-07-11T03:45:07+00:00

Each time I press the READ ALOUD button, it gives me this error message:

"To choose what voice you hear while using Read Aloud, sign in with your Microsoft account."

But I am signed into my MS account.

It appears that my credentials cannot be verified. When this happens, MS Word defaults to the 3 built-in voices.

Any ideas?

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Anonymous
2023-07-17T10:31:00+00:00

Hi guys -

Looks like it's now been fixed (11:30am (UK) time).

Restart your computers.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-07-14T04:40:14+00:00

    i deleted all the MS credentials and rebooted

    but no dice

    it seems to have just auto-created the credential at startup

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-14T04:24:23+00:00

    There is one for MicrosoftLive, that isn't the one you want. There is a Microsoft Login that worked for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-14T04:15:50+00:00

    Does that work?

    When i go to "Credential Manager" i dont see a 365 listing

    I see a microsoft one though

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-14T03:58:50+00:00

    I'm experiencing the same issue! It doesn't make any logical sense to me. As a book author, I find Microsoft David in Read Aloud to be incredibly disruptive during proofreading. I can't understand why Microsoft would develop such a terrible, complicated, and error-ridden system for adding simple natural voices to Word's read aloud feature. I'm determined to find a solution to this problem. I'll update you as soon as I figure it out.

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