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Change Cortana's Voice on Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to change Cortana's voice from female to male when using a Microsoft Lumia 535.

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on the right-hand side of the phone
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Swipe the lock screen up
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Now, we want to press the search icon, which is the magnifying glass at the bottom right corner of the screen
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Press and hold that to open Cortana.
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Cortana is Microsoft's personal assistant
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We have the opportunity to change the voice for some settings. Her voice is naturally female, but we can change the voice to male for some third-party applications, as well as for some different situations. To do this, we need first to press the menu button, which is the three horizontal lines at the top right corner of the screen.

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At the next menu, press settings at the bottom
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In Cortana's settings, scroll down until you find speech settings, and press that
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In the box under Text to Speech Voice, you should see a female
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Tap on that, and you can change the voice to male. This is for the text to speech. Text to speech voice applies to turn by turn directions and other third party applications.
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This gives you the opportunity and the option to change the voice from male to female or female to male just to create a bit of variety, or if you prefer one voice over another
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This concludes our tutorial on how to change Cortana's voice from female to male or male back to female. If you have any questions or comments about this video, then please leave them in the section below. You've been watching VisiHow. Goodbye.

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