Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Tina — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:26:37 GMT

I am using MS Outlook. The speak function normally works well. All of a sudden it has stopped working in Outlook, but still works in the othe MS programs. Can you help me?

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Karin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:43:59 GMT

This is an excellent tool for my dyslexic learners but the voice is very robotic. Is there a way this can be changed?

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Lyby — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:00:19 GMT

Go to Start Menu, Control Panel, Ease of Access, Speech Recognition, Text to Speech

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Vanda — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:49:01 GMT

There is no Control Panel in Excel 2007. please help

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

PB Coleman — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:53:30 GMT

Change the speed in Control Panel > Text to Speech.

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Ken — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:27:44 GMT

Is there a way to slow the voice down? I'm using this with a dyslexic student and the voice is too fast and difficult to understand. Changing the voice speed in the Narrator in the windows control panel doesn't help.

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Office_GXP — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:58:51 GMT

Remian, in order for this feature to work, you will need to download a text-to-speech (TTS) engine in the language or languages that you want the feature to work in. You may download a TTS from the link below. TTS’s are available for different languages. For instance, if you wish to hear the sound play for Japanese Text then you will need to install the Japanese TTS Engine.

Hope that helps. If it doesn't, please post again.

office.microsoft.com/.../helppreview14.aspx

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Remian8985 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:11:45 GMT

I press 'Speak' and nothing happens. I tried selecting the whole thing, putting the cursor at first and last of the sentence. But still doesn't help. Anyone knows what the heck the problem is ?

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Michel — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:15:50 GMT

Quite a few languages are available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f704cd64-1dbf-47a7-ba49-27c5843a12d5&displaylang=en

re: Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010

Office User — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:53:08 GMT

I tried the feature and it works well with text. However, it can’t read the Alt Text in pictures. I just want to make sure that this is not an error of some kind.. Is it supposed to read text only?

Thanks