Narrator Issue - I hear Text to Speech instead of lady voice over

Age of Empires IV IV - Report a Bug
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Hi,

I recently resumed playing the campaign and noticed that the narrator voice is now the Microsoft David Text to Speech instead of the voice over (British lady voice). I checked the Accessibility settings and all the text to speech options are turned off. I am currently playing a mission to defend Moscow from the Mongols. Is this a known bug? How can I fix it?

Thanks,

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Having the same issue, all these people are too: Reddit - Dive into anything some kind of regression

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Same issue here! I finally decided to do the campaign and this happens, had to turn it off immediately -.-

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Same issue here. It also applies to the Art of War Narration. I hope this can get fixed before the campaign DLC.

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It happens to me too.Does your game at different language than english?

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Yep… still an issue. Really weird bug but its super annoying to play the campaign atm

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Having the same issue. If this persists when the new expansion release, it will be terrible to have to play the new campaigns with the same robot voice.

I wonder if this issue is related to the missing unit/villager voices, which I am also experiencing? Maybe corrupted sound files?

version 8.2.218.0 btw

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Having the same issue along with missing unit voices. Uninstalling doesn’t fix it.

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I have managed to fix the issue by uninstalling the game and reinstalling to C:\XboxGames.

I think the issue was that the game was installed (way back at launch in 2021) into C:\Program Files\WindowsApps. This is no longer the default install location for the Xbox app, and it’s possible the game had pointers to sound files that were supposed to be in C:\XboxGames. I don’t know for sure, but now my game files are installed in C:\XboxGames the issue is fixed.

This also fixed the issue of not hearing unit voices: Can't hear unit/villager voices - #7 by KnowingLamb8370

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That is a super obnoxious issue. if that is the actual case… though i typically never install games in C:// So I am curious why this would be an issue now if this is the case…

Ill have to give installing it to C a shot if the drive has room.

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Hello everyone! I would like to inform you that I was able to fix the issue. I uninstalled/reinstalled the game. This time, I installed it in (in my case) D:\XboxGames. I bought the game when it first came out in 2021 and it seems a lot has happened since then. I pretty much followed Zorgulon’s instructions (Thanks Zorgulon!) I hope this helps!