Word 2016 and the 'Speak' option?

Jon_01

First, thanks to everyone that helped in the other thread I asked in.

I've upgraded to Office 2016 to get text to speech working in Word.

I've got Word to read fine, but it stops at a random point between 700 to 800 words into a doc?

I've tried MS support, who opened with, 'It will read to the end of the file'. When I told them it won't, it stops they back track and say it's down to the system you're running on!

I've run Word with task manager running, with no speech running it uses 75 meg, with speech running it uses 80 meg. I have 60% memory free and I'm using 4% of CPU. So I can't really see it's a system issue?
Also I run Final Draft, which use the same Windows text to speech as Word and that will happily read 100+ pages without any problem.

Anyone have any suggestions on what might be the problem with Word???

(Office 2016 was installed yesterday, and support tried a repair this morning, nothing changed).

Thanks

Jon_01

OK found the answer.
There is a 4096 character limit to the TTS in Word Which MS support don't know about even though it's listed on their system!
I guess that haven't bothered to update this since the 8 bit days!



https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/why-does-text-to-speech-stop-reading-text-before/9afca3b0-2bf5-4a60-8252-4e43250c1007