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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.
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???
Thank you…. Ill check and see if that my same issue.
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