You should now have access to the new voices in Voice Attack, and in the Windows TTS options menu. This process may also work with other voice packs.

Hey Quelus, Unfortunately, there is only one program that is Narrator in WIndows 7. Narrator is the text-to-speech program in Windows 7 that reads what is displayed on your screen, including the contents of the active window, menu options, or the text you have typed. Narrator reads menus without leaving the active window and includes a pleasant, natural-sounding voice. Narrator has a number of options that allow you to customize the way screen elements are read.

You can: ■ Read Narrator menus without leaving the active window. ■ Move around the desktop with the number keys using virtual focus, which allows you to move through the objects on the desktop and read aloud any content they contain. ■ Move around the desktop with the arrow keys using virtual menus. ■ Use bookmarks to find commonly used programs. To know more about Narrator, Hear text read aloud with Narrator For your information: Apart from this, if you want any other text to speech programs, you can use your favorite search engine on the Internet to look for any third party programs.

Important Note: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites; therefore, Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. There are inherent dangers in the use of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software from the Internet.

Regards, Savan – Microsoft Support. This isn't quite the whole story. From what I have experienced, Office 2010 uses a different TTS voice than Narrator's Microsoft Anna and it all depends on what language the document or program is set to. For example, by default, Outlook will read my emails in a more natural British Male voice.

However, I downloaded a female voice (Hazel) that reads out anything that is set to American. There deosn't seem to be a control panel to manage these Office TTS voices. You can read more about it on my blog article, including links to download new voices for different languages.

Please note, this will only change the voice in Office programs on Vista and above. You also, strangely, can't choose them as a voice for the Narrator program.

That really didn't answer the question. Options other than Anna need to be included - not everyone likes her. Not everyone can hear her properly. Options really are needed. For folks with disabilities like I work with - she doesn't cut it for most of them. We've used other SAPI 5 compliant voices in previous versions of Windows - but in 7 but they don't seem to load or work no matter what we do.

And I can't tell my students they can't upgrade to newer versions of Windows or they won't be able to use their computer - that seems kinda silly. It's all about accessibility, folks.