"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
    2023-07-17T10:50:01+00:00

    Hi guys -

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

    Restart your computers.

    AGREED. Hooray! It's now working again. I didn't even have to restart my machine. Just restarted Word!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-17T13:00:27+00:00

    yes! that is good news.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-17T16:29:08+00:00

    I am confirming that after rebooting, the problem is fixed, 7/172023!

    I was wondering however, we now have nice male and female natural voices in Read Aloud but is there any way to change these to another voice? Is this hard coded into word or can we change it Narrator or other location?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-17T16:41:36+00:00

    Yes! Just checked and my Read Aloud has the female voice back! Microsoft Zira! YAY!

    Thanks to everyone for sending feedback to Microsoft! I think we did it!

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