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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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There are only 2 options available on the mobile app. The female option voice was changed for what appears to be no good reason at all. Now we're stuck with weird reading voice girl.
The female voice changed for me recently, too. This happened on the Word app on android. I do not use read aloud on the desktop. It is very unpleasant and distracting. Honestly, it's awful. I also only have 2 choices: male or female. The previous female voice was the only one that read in a generic, non-distracting way. We don't want "more human" sounding voices that pause and add inflection in weird places. We want a steady, generic voice that helps us listen for information, errors, etc. People aren't having word documents read to them for entertainment. I would like to know if there is a way to get the previous female voice back so I can continue my work without disruption.
Think of it this way... If I paid for spaghetti at a restaurant and halfway through my meal some waiter came by and dumped a bunch of cheese all over my plate under the assumption that everyone wants cheese on their pasta, this would be wrong. Please stop making assumptions and changing our norms. If people didn't like the previous voice, they would have said so.
To choose your Read Aloud voice:
Overnight the option of 2 voices: m/f - both ‘speaking’ as if auditioning for a jr high play - replaced the f voice that was actually appropriate for reading scientific research papers, the reason I pay for ms365 to begin with. 4? Days now trying to reach the ms365 tech support: no response. Is anyone aware of the problem? To the point of addressing it?
i can give you work around.
Copy your text into notepad save it as .txt file.
open edge and drag that file into edge. at end of address bar is readout loud.
install Microsoft Jenny natural TTS in windows 11 speech settings and you can pick TTS voice in edge to get same result.
Track your text in Word when you listen in edge and correct mistakes.
its off in word you can pick male / femal thats it. when you use that feature in crome you can pick any language pack voice you have installed and force it to that voice.