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MS Word Read Aloud voice changes tone
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I'm using the Read Aloud feature, and the "female" voice changed its tone when it hit this one paragraph. I don't think there's anything special about the text, but the voice changed to sound emotionally elated. Why is it doing this, when I never hear it use emotion anywhere else?
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Anonymous
2025-03-09T16:26:56+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-03-08T22:03:56+00:00 Unfortunately that not did work. I reset the default to make sure. I did notice, if I click "Read Aloud", on a blank page the female and male voice show. If I type something and then try "Read Aloud- I then get the oops message and when you click ok or close out the warning David Zira and Mark are back .
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Anonymous
2024-08-20T15:49:25+00:00 I have been having problems with “READ ALOUD” for 3-4 months and have made many request for help and have even made 7-8 responses… i have as of yet not received any direct help. It appears that our responses are not being read by anyone other than the group of people who are having the same problem.
This is so sad!!
Richard
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Anonymous
2024-08-07T17:52:15+00:00 Yes! I have had to do without read aloud for 3/4 months now. No one has been able to help me. I get this voice that no one could listen to for even one minute. I really need it for proofreading.
There should be a way to select at least adjust the voice. I shoudnt have to…. But id be willing to pay to get the voice corrected properly.
Richard
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Anonymous
2024-06-17T13:58:04+00:00 I think people a missing the point: In paragraph one, the female voice sounds fairly normal. Then suddenly on the next paragraph, the female voice sounds "autotuned" then on the next paragraph she sounds like her normal "emotionless inflectionless" sound. Then later on, another paragraph she sounds autotuned. Flipping back and forth between the paragraphs produce the same result. paragraph two, autotuned. paragraph one, normal. Please explain if there is some kind of "reveal codes" formatting that is doing this.