• Korean Text To Speech

Post in English or Korean. Although this subreddit is about Korea, its users are primarily English speakers. We welcome Korean language links, but we encourage Korean language posts to have an objective, English summary in the comments. No flooding of posts. As such, only my Microsoft SAPI 4 Speech Synthesizer is currently working. Now, I did uninstall all of the RHVoice and ModelTalker software and voices, however, it did not resolve my problem at all.

The Speak feature in Microsoft Office enables text-to-speech (TTS) in OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. By downloading additional TTS engines for other languages, you can change the voice selection to hear the text read in those languages. TTS engines are also necessary to hear translations with the Mini Translator.

Important: The Speak feature will not work with Windows XP.

To learn how to use the TTS feature in Excel, see Converting text to speech in Excel.

What do you want to do?

Add TTS engines for other languages

To add other language engines, for free, you will need to the correct Speech Platform, and then you must download the TTS engines in the language(s) that you want.

Download the Microsoft Speech Platform

To download and install the Microsoft Speech Platform, follow these steps:

1. Determine which operating system platform that you have.
   
2. Go to the Microsoft Download Center, and then download the Microsoft Speech Platformfor your platform.
3. Follow the instructions to install the speech platform on your computer.

Download additional TTS language engines

To download and install TTS engines in additional languages, follow these steps:

1. Select your TTS language from the following list.
   Available languages
2. Follow the instructions to install the TTS engine for the language that you selected.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for any additional languages.
4. Restart your Office program for the changes to take effect.

Tip: To learn more about Speech technologies, visit the TTS engines page in the Download Center or the Microsoft Speech Technologies web site.

Note: If you have a third-party TTS engine already installed on your computer, Speak will use that TTS engine rather than a Microsoft TTS engine that you have installed from the Download Center. For example, if you have a German TTS engine from another company and you also install the German Microsoft TTS engine from the Download Center, the third-party TTS engine will always be used. If you uninstall the third-party TTS engine, Speak will automatically use the TTS engine from the Download Center.

Add Speak to the ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar

Before you can use Speak, you’ll need to add it to the ribbon or the Quick Access Toolbar.

To learn how to add Speak to your ribbon, see Customize the ribbon in Office.

To learn how to add Speak to your Quick Access Toolbar, see Customize the Quick Access Toolbar