I have noticed, that the default reader voice has been changed/updated to a female voice on acrobat. I need the former androgynous / non-gender computer voice again to work with. Could you please change that or is there a plugin to install?
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Thank you for your answer. At the moment i am on macOS Ventura 13.2.1. Do you think the change is with the operating system or did the developer change the default voice? In the dropdown for other voices, there are only female or male choices, so the former voice does not exist any more on acrobat but i really need this specific non-gender- robotic voice again. Are there any possibilities to get this back?
Yes the voice in Acrobat will change depending on what the user has configured as the default robo-voice in the operating system.
For macOS and iOS devices is Siri Voice (Micrososoft Windows devices is Cortana, Amazon is Alexa, Google is the Google Assistant):
To change Siri's voice to "Q" (the gender neutral voice assistant) try this:
Go to Apple menu => System Preferences => Siri => Language => Siri Voice
From the dropdown menu choose the desired gender type voice.
Now, I am not sure if in your specific case, with newer updates, Siri's voice has reverted back to only a male or female gender voice but it shouldn't.
You need to scroll through that dropdown menu and see an option that should say "Voice 5".
Select that option and it should give Siri a gender-neutral robo-voice.
Changing this setting in your operating system as the default Siri voice should be respected in the Adobe Acrobat's Reading preferences settings.
If you don't manually configure these voice settings in your operating system it may not be reflected in Acrobat because it is not the Adobe Acrobat preferences that controls the robo-voice options... those are made available to Acrobat by the OS (not the other way around).
To verify, go back to Adobe Acrobat Preferences settings as suggested by @jane-e and uncheck the "Default" tickbox to see all of the available voice options provided by your operating system.
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