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Can WordTalk be used with languages other than English?

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Can WordTalk be used with languages other than English?

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Yes provided that you have an appropriate foreign language voice on your computer. There are a number of commercial voices available from e.g. http://www.nextup.com/. Alternatively, you can use the free voices available for Microsoft Reader. You can get voices for French, German, Spanish and Italian. You have to download and install the appropriate version of Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for the language you want, then install the equivalent version of the Microsoft Reader Text-to-Speech Package. This should provide access to a number of reasonably good quality voices. You can check to see if they are available through the Speech control panel in WordTalk. If you are using a foreign language version of Word, WordTalk should still work, but you may get a Runtime Error 76: File not found error message if you use the WordTalk Startup utility to try to have WordTalk load automatically when you run Word. The WordTalk Startup utility tries to place the WordTalk.dot template into the Word Startup f

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