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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
2024-10-14T18:33:17+00:00 -
Anonymous
2024-10-14T17:25:39+00:00 Hi, My name is Milton Marime.
I faced the same issue as you have and I figure out it is due to that particular text having a different proofing language than the rest of the text. This is probably because you copied and pasted the text from another application like a browser or notepad. In my case, i was writing in English (United Kingdom) and pasted text that had a proofing language in English (Zimbabwe). When the read aloud reached the text in English (Zimbabwe), it changed its tone in the way you described. I resolved this by highlighting the new text and changing the proofing language to English (United Kingdom), or the one you use in you case.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
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Anonymous
2024-10-10T15:20:28+00:00 That wasn’t my exact complaint! I went 2 months without being able to use READ ALOUD… it finally came back…. I’m dreading it happening again… usually I loose it every 2-3 months. Richard
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Anonymous
2024-10-10T03:52:23+00:00 same here. i need the online one with tone expression. what happened? how do i get it back?
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Anonymous
2024-09-16T04:13:26+00:00 Zira voice sound like a robotic and that sound is not helping me in my book writing. i need her voice back how can i get it back?