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Welcome to this Daisy Consortium tutorial
on setting the default computer voice for

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the Save As DAISY Add In for Microsoft Word
2010.

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When you convert or translate content using
the Save as DAISY Add In for Microsoft Word

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it uses the default voice on your computer
system. For example, if you have Windows XP

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there’s a good chance you will have the
earlier Microsoft Sam and Mary voices installed.

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Some users may find these voices tiresome
to listen to although some users find the

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Sam and Mary very acceptable.

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However, with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft
Anna is the new default voice.

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However if you have other computer voices
installed on your computer system and would

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prefer to use them instead, this tutorial
will show you how to set the default voice.

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In this tutorial I’m using Windows 7 but
in other operating systems such as Microsoft

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Vista and even XP it is a similar process.

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First of all go to the Windows Start menu
and select Control Panel. When the Control

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Panel opens find and select the Speech Recognition
item. When the Speech Recognition window opens

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select Text to Speech.

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You can see that I have 3 different computer
voices installed. This is what Microsoft Anna

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sounds like and this is what Heather sounds
like. I’m going to choose Heather. Finally,

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select Okay and close the Control Panel window.
You have now set the default voice in Windows.

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Thank you for watching and listening to this
tutorial.