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
    2024-06-17T13:58:04+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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-19T17:12:57+00:00

    Same I prefer that voice as well. Still not sure how to get it back though.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-20T18:17:52+00:00

    The limited (1)male and (1) female voice in my outlook read aloud function is VERY annoying. I use this function a lot. I have actually had moments where I copied the words to pdf and had it read aloud there. Microsoft please give us more options!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-20T18:28:31+00:00

    What he said!!!!!!!! Couldn't have worded it better!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-30T19:13:31+00:00

    I am having trouble resetting my read aloud… this happens every year before renewal. I clicked the review tab but a settings button never came up… i could not go any further. I am using my IPad Pro. I loved it when I first started several years ago and got the Siri voice which was really perfect. Last year I got a lady’s voice that very expressive but mispronounced many times in a page. Please help me I am desperate to use this in proof reading my documents. Richard VanCleave 229-886-2877

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