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Microsoft Hortense Desktop (french) voice not working for audio reading pdf document

New Here ,
Jul 03, 2017 Jul 03, 2017

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Hello,

I installed microsoft hortense desktop voice in the speech recognition subject of the W10 config panel.

I can hear the french voice when asking for testing the voice. No problem with the narrator too.

On the other hand, it produces no sound out when I ask for reading a pdf document by the menu item Display / Audio reading / Read only this page.

However, I previously configured the voice to use on "Microsoft Hortense desktop" by the menu item Edit / Preferences, and activated the audio reading.

It works fine when reading an english pdf document with the voice Microsoft Zira Desktop - English (US).

I use the Acrobat Reader Dc version 2017 - 2017.009.20044.

Any help would be appreciated.

Annie B.

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Adobe Employee , Jul 25, 2017 Jul 25, 2017

Hi Annie B,

Sorry for the delay in response.

As per the issue description mentioned above, you have installed a desktop voice in French but that is not working when reading a pdf document in Adobe Reader, is that correct?

Could you please try disabling Protected Mode and see if that works?

Launch Reader>click Edit>Preferences>Security (Enhanced)

Uncheck the box Enable Protected Mode at startup>click OK>relaunch Reader and try again.

Keep us posted with the results.

Shivam

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 25, 2017 Jul 25, 2017

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Hi Annie B,

Sorry for the delay in response.

As per the issue description mentioned above, you have installed a desktop voice in French but that is not working when reading a pdf document in Adobe Reader, is that correct?

Could you please try disabling Protected Mode and see if that works?

Launch Reader>click Edit>Preferences>Security (Enhanced)

Uncheck the box Enable Protected Mode at startup>click OK>relaunch Reader and try again.

Keep us posted with the results.

Shivam

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New Here ,
Jul 27, 2017 Jul 27, 2017

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Hello Shivam,

thanks a lot, the french voice works fine with your solution !

Annie B.

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Feb 19, 2024 Feb 19, 2024

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Also worked for me, sort of. Only one of the non-English voices shows up (I have like 8 installed, for various "French" alternatives, different people/voices for Canada and France, etc). How do I get the others to appear?

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New Here ,
Jul 25, 2017 Jul 25, 2017

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Buenas tardes, mire yo tenia problema con las voces que traiga directamente adobe o Microsoft, no me leia nada, descargue un paquete de voz y ya me lee, no tan bien pero lee, yo quisiera saber como aumentar la velocidad para que lea mas rápido o mas despacio como se hace eso, y además comprobé que me habilito en Word 2016 también ya que tenia problemas, asi que lo recomiendo en un video de YouTube, están subidos a mega, espero te ayude a tu problema, pero están todos en español nomas

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 27, 2017 Jul 27, 2017

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Hi Juan,

Try following steps to change the voice speed:

Launch Reader>click Edit>Preferences

Under Categories>Reading>uncheck Use default speech attributes and type any value between 150-650 under "Words Per Minute"

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Jul 27, 2017 Jul 27, 2017

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You're Welcome, Annie.

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