MS Word Read Aloud voice changes tone

Anonymous
2024-03-20T11:04:45+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-09T21:45:05+00:00

    Hilarious!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-09T21:44:39+00:00

    Actually Word updated in March and the reading voice now includes inflection.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-03T17:24:39+00:00

    "The changes they have made to the female voice are excessively over the top." Yes, I agree. As a previous commenter wrote: "It’s now some super perky, almost Valley Girl voice I don’t care for at all." Ugh.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-01T19:15:42+00:00

    I, too, am a writer and used Zira - and for the most part, I liked that particular voice. This new voice is very dramatic and distracting! I plan on sending feedback to Microsoft. Microsoft, please fix this soon!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-31T16:06:47+00:00

    Having a choice (which includes the old Female voice) would be ideal.

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