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The voices on Read aloud have changed suddenly from realistic British voices to robotic American ones. When I try to activate the function, a message pops up telling me to sign in to my Microsoft account. But I already am!!
How do I get the old voices back? (Non-technical advice, please. I'm a novelist, not an engineer!)
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I'm having the same issue. It usually only does this when I'm offline. It's telling me to sign into 365 but it's already signed in. There's also no setting to change it. It's fine when using immersive reader via browser but that's really inconvenient. I am a budding novelist and am also not an engineer.
Yes this is happening all over the place over different devices and OS Win11 pro, home, Android latest versions and updated OS, plus using the online word, account is updated and paid yearly, tired multiple internet connections and nothing, usually this happens when you lose internet and restarting the docs fixes it (sometimes you have to close all MS programs) but not this time as it is across board and i would guess its Microsoft servers doing something like upgrades and or maintenance.
I use the read aloud constantly as a writer to help with flow and paging plus hearing how it will sound when read, but i can say don't use Can English mode as the narrator for that is still very robotic, but the US English, UK Scottish, Irish all have great voices, you can change the doc type on the bottom left of the word window you have to convert the whole doc but you can then revert it back if your spell checker prefers proper English and not US English,,,,like spelling and grammar.
Microsoft please get this issue fixed as this is a workday for me and this is part of my work and why i pay so much for office each year so, please get this back up, asap.
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Any updates on if this issue has been fixed? It was fine up to yesterday. I'm a writer and I need this tool for work.
The sudden unavailability is driving me up a wall! Please hurry up and do something Microsoft!