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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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does anybody know how to get "male and female" voices back? I had it for a day or two, then it went back to zira, mark and david. I'd like to go back to the male female, but i've been clawing at my eyes trying to figure out how.
Hi guys, I'm glad I found a workable solution. Lmk if it worked for y'all.
I've answered this in Stack Overflow.
Here's the link:
To those who want to read it here:
Qn) Why my Read Aloud voice is changing between two paragraphs in MS Word using Office 365 subscription?
(I have a Word document with only two lines. When I click speak Aloud, it speaks line 1 in British tone and line 2 in some European tone. Please can someone guide how to stick to a British tone only?)
Ans)
that's a quick fix... I tried it myself and it worked!
Just select your line 2 and change the language to British English.
How to change:
Same with me. I need the more natural sounding voice I heard before in my document. Now I have a monotone Female and monotone Male. I don't have any other drop-down voices like I had in the past. Very frustrating, especially when tears sound like tares, and other words don't make sense from these robot voices. PLEASE FIX ASAP.
Me too! I need the voice with more natural tones ofr my story writing, not the monotone robotic voice I now have
I have the same thing on my PC using Windows 11 Microsoft 365. I have only the choice of MALE or FEMALE in the drop-down voices. The English sounding Robotic voice sometimes changes in the next paragraph to an animated American voice. With the female voice and vice versa with the male voice. I've downloaded Natural voices, but they are not working in my documents. A couple of months ago, I did see a list of voices, like ZIRA, GEORGE, JEAN etc, they all seem to have disappeared???