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Speak function in Word 2016/Windows 10
Thread poster: Helle Gylling
Helle Gylling
Helle Gylling  Identity Verified
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Dec 3, 2017

Hi

I am not sure this is the right forum to ask this question but I could not find a Word forum.

I just bought a new Windows 10 computer and put Office 2016 on it. I downloaded the Speak platform etc. and spell check for Danish and spell check works fine, but the Speak function does not read the Danish text! I write in Danish, set the proofing language to Danish, the Speak icon becomes activated when I highlight Danish text - it just does not say anything! I works fine... See more
Hi

I am not sure this is the right forum to ask this question but I could not find a Word forum.

I just bought a new Windows 10 computer and put Office 2016 on it. I downloaded the Speak platform etc. and spell check for Danish and spell check works fine, but the Speak function does not read the Danish text! I write in Danish, set the proofing language to Danish, the Speak icon becomes activated when I highlight Danish text - it just does not say anything! I works fine for English - and the Danish Speak function works fine on my old Windows 8.1 computer with Word 2013. I just cannot get it to read the Danish text out loud.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
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Daniel Frisano
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Bad news, I am afraid Dec 4, 2017

From what I see, my Word 2016 offers text-to-speech capabilities only in the following languages:

Chinese (Hong Kong)
Chinese (Taiwan)
Chinese (People's Republic of China)
English (United States)
English (Great Britain)
English (India)
French (France)
German (Germany)
Italian (Italy)
Japanese (Japan)
Korean (Korea)
Polish (Poland)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian (Russia)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (... See more
From what I see, my Word 2016 offers text-to-speech capabilities only in the following languages:

Chinese (Hong Kong)
Chinese (Taiwan)
Chinese (People's Republic of China)
English (United States)
English (Great Britain)
English (India)
French (France)
German (Germany)
Italian (Italy)
Japanese (Japan)
Korean (Korea)
Polish (Poland)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian (Russia)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)

Anyway, for text-to-speech I prefer to use TextAloud with IVONA or Loquendo voices, which are really excellent (much better than Microsoft). You can check at http://nextup.com and https://www.ivona.com/us/about-us/voice-portfolio/ . ▲ Collapse
 
Helle Gylling
Helle Gylling  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 04:22
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Additional languages, incl. Danish Dec 4, 2017

Hi Daniel,

I downloaded Danish from the Office support site:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Using-the-Speak-feature-with-Multilingual-TTS-E522A4F2-37CB-492B-BE6A-8997D23DFE70ite:

>>Download additional TTS language engines
To download and install TTS engines in ad... See more
Hi Daniel,

I downloaded Danish from the Office support site:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Using-the-Speak-feature-with-Multilingual-TTS-E522A4F2-37CB-492B-BE6A-8997D23DFE70ite:

>>Download additional TTS language engines
To download and install TTS engines in additional languages, follow these steps:
Select your TTS language from the following list.
Available languages

Chinese (Hong Kong) TTS Engine - Download
Chinese (PRC) TTS Engine - Download
Chinese (Taiwan) TTS Engine - Download
Danish (Denmark) TTS Engine - Download
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Daniel Frisano
Daniel Frisano  Identity Verified
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Local time: 10:22
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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... Dec 5, 2017

Mine must be outdated then. And you still can't use TTS in Danish?
 


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