Welcome to this Daisy Consortium tutorial on setting the default computer voice for
the Save As DAISY Add In for Microsoft Word 2010.
When you convert or translate content using the Save as DAISY Add In for Microsoft Word
it uses the default voice on your computer system. For example, if you have Windows XP
there’s a good chance you will have the earlier Microsoft Sam and Mary voices installed.
Some users may find these voices tiresome to listen to although some users find the
Sam and Mary very acceptable.
However, with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft Anna is the new default voice.
However if you have other computer voices installed on your computer system and would
prefer to use them instead, this tutorial will show you how to set the default voice.
In this tutorial I’m using Windows 7 but in other operating systems such as Microsoft
Vista and even XP it is a similar process.
First of all go to the Windows Start menu and select Control Panel. When the Control
Panel opens find and select the Speech Recognition item. When the Speech Recognition window opens
select Text to Speech.
You can see that I have 3 different computer voices installed. This is what Microsoft Anna
sounds like and this is what Heather sounds like. I’m going to choose Heather. Finally,
select Okay and close the Control Panel window. You have now set the default voice in Windows.
Thank you for watching and listening to this tutorial.