Windows 10: How to slow Cortana speech?

How do I slow down cortana's speech rate? She's talking just a bit too fast for my ears.

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Cortana Speech Problem

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I will certainly help you with this.

Please make sure your Country or Region, Language, and
Speech Language settings are all aligned with one of Cortana’s supported locale configurations.　 If these OS settings are not aligned, Cortana will not be available in proper language. For example, Cortana will not work properly
if your country is set to United States, but the Windows display language is set to English (United Kingdom).



I suggest you to try to turn Cortana off and then try turning it on back and check. Refer to the steps below to turn Off and On Cortana:

• Open Cortana.
• Click the hamburger button in the top left of the window.
• Go to Settings and click on off.
• Follow the same steps to turn it on.
• Check if issue persists.

I suggest you to refer to the steps and settings given in below discussion thread by
Sharath Srinivasa and confirm that your system is configure in same settings:

Why is Cortana not available for me on Windows 10?



Hope this information helps. Post back with updated issue details for further help.

Thank you.

 

Cortana speech language?

Hi Oliver,

Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are happy to help you.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to check the language and speech settings in Cortana.

• Press Windows + I keys on the keyboard to open settings menu.
• Click on Time and language and select region and language.
  
• Under Language option, check which language is Set as default.
  
• If you find different language, you can change it by clicking on Add a language option.
  
• Select your preferred language (English UK) and click on
  Set as default under English UK language.
• Now, click on English UK and click on Options.
• Download the language, handwriting and speech packs.
• Now, click on Speech from the Time and language settings menu.
• Check if you are able to select the speech settings to English UK.
• After performing above steps, check if you are able to use Cortana.

Reference: Refer to the following Microsoft article on
Cortana & search.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/cortana-search

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Cortana Error: change speech to one I use

Hi Michael,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty with the problem.

You are not able to change the speech settings to English Canada because you have not downloaded the speech packs for the English Canada. I suggest you to check the language and speech settings in Cortana as below and check if
it helps.

• Press Windows + I keys on the keyboard to open settings menu.
• Click on Time and language and select
  region and language.
• Under Language option, check which language is Set as default.
  
• If you find different language, you can change it by clicking on Add a language option.
  
• Select your preferred language (English Canada) and click on
  Set as default under English UK language.
• Now, click on English Canada and click on
  Options.
• Download the language, handwriting and speech packs.
• Now, click on Speech from the Time and language settings menu.
• Check if you are able to select the speech settings to English Canada.
  
• After performing above steps, check if you are able to use Cortana.

Also, suggest you to check for updates by following the steps below:

• Press Windows key, click on Settings>Update & Security>Windows Update.
• In the right pane, click on Check for updates.
• Install any pending updates.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to
write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.