The new male and female voices have been slightly improved, but they still sound bland, choppy and they accent when they don’t need to. The old David and Zira read much more naturally and accent things like a question when it needs to be. A lot of people like the male, female. ...
desperately trying to find a way to add modern natural voices to Read Aloud in Word 365 on my Windows 11. There used to be a pleasant voice available for months, but it suddenly disappeared, leaving me with the awful robotic voices like David, Mark, and Zira. As a book auth...
Step 4: To activate the Read Aloud feature, proceed by clicking the "Read Aloud" button on the View tab To change the voice, speed, or pitch of the speech, click the Settings button on the Read Aloud toolbar. You can choose from various voices and languages, and customize the...
(The controls Read Aloud are NOT in Windows | Control Panel | Speech Recognition | Text to Speech – that’s for the old Speak feature.) To see all the voices installed, head to Windows Settings | Ease of Use | Narrator | scroll down to Personalize Narrator’s Voice If there’s no ...
Use theVoice Selectiondrop-down to choose a different voice. The options vary depending on your installed voices on Windows or macOS. If you want to hear a particular portion of the document or start in a spot other than the beginning, select the text or place your cursor at the beginning...
We checked the ‘Read Aloud’ voices (US English) to see how it pronounced the first name correctly as ‘COM-mah-la’ not ‘Cam-ala’. It’s a mixed result. (We’re not making a political point either way. Whatever you might think of someone, it’s polite to say their name correc...
The Read Aloud feature in Word is great for authors and readers alike. Whether you use it to “prooflisten” a document or an email you’ve drafted to catch errors, or simply to give your eyes a break, Read Aloud now features more natural-sounding voices for an improved listening experi...
Move to the right to increase speed and to the left to decrease it. PressPlayto hear the different speeds. Use theVoice Selectiondropdown menu to choose different voices for the reader. Select a voice and then pressPlayto hear it. SelectXto closeRead Aloud....
Move to the right to increase speed and to the left to decrease it. PressPlayto hear the different speeds. Use theVoice Selectiondropdown menu to choose different voices for the reader. Select a voice and then pressPlayto hear it. SelectXto closeRead Aloud....
Make sure that you're in a quiet environment. If other voices are around, your microphone could pick them up and add them to your document. 4. How to Add Punctuation When using the voice typing feature, you can say specific phrases that Windows speech recognition will recognize. If you sa...