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brenotss
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May 12, 2020
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Read Out Loud just showing English voices

  • May 12, 2020
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I would like to have the French voice available for read out loud. If I check my windows speech (Manage Voices) I can see the French voice installed and I`ve already selected the Microsoft Claude (French) as my default. But when I access the reading configuration on my Adobe Pro, I`m just seeing the english voices available 

Is it possible to change that?

Many Thanks!!

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Correct answer brenotss

The problem was solved after I installed the voice package French (France). I was installing the French (Canada) and it seems Adobe is not compatible with this one. 

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RachitJain
Adobe Employee
May 13, 2020

Hi,

I believe you have to install the text-to-speech and display language package when you are installing a language on your system. Once you have installed it, the option will appear in the reading preference dropdown. If required, reboot the system once after installation.

 

Please confirm if this resolves the issue for you.

 

Thanks

Rachit

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    Ema5FCB
    Participant
    May 26, 2021

    Hi  Rachit,

     

    I have the same issue as this one but no one has replied in this thread --> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/add-read-out-loud-voice-dutch/m-p/11988085/thread-id/79004

     

    Can you please help us?

    We have the voices installed in Windows and even installed the language for Acrobat, but the reading language is only the 2 English voices.

    Thank you.

     

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    Tim24023573vqxj
    Participant
    April 13, 2022

    I have the same problem for Dutch. I cannot choose the Dutch voice of my microsoft system on Acrobat pro DC. Very frustrating. I have to listen to an American women.

     


    Try this:

    Open a powershell script as administrator and type/paste the following:

    $sourcePath = 'HKLM:\software\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore\Voices\Tokens' #Where the OneCore voices live
$destinationPath = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens' #For 64-bit apps
$destinationPath2 = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\SPEECH\Voices\Tokens' #For 32-bit apps
cd $destinationPath
$listVoices = Get-ChildItem $sourcePath
foreach($voice in $listVoices)
{
$source = $voice.PSPath #Get the path of this voices key
copy -Path $source -Destination $destinationPath -Recurse
copy -Path $source -Destination $destinationPath2 -Recurse
}

    It solved the problem for me (also Dutch). If you download a new language in the Windows settings rerun the script. Huge thanks to https://github.com/hiepxanh for finding this solution originally. 

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