How do I turn off voice alert, "You've got x mails"?

[Guest]

I just got a new Toshiba laptop and for some reason when emails are received
in Outlook, it says outloud, "You've got 6 mails" or however many I have.
This is extremely annoying. How do I turn this off?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Check for Toshiba tools or the new mail notification sound under control
panel->sounds and multimedia.

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After furious head scratching, Jacob H. asked:

| I just got a new Toshiba laptop and for some reason when emails are
| received in Outlook, it says outloud, "You've got 6 mails" or however
| many I have. This is extremely annoying. How do I turn this off?

 

[Guest]

To the best of my ability I cannot find any such control panel or any such
command under similar control panels or applications. Any other ideas?

Thanks for the reply, though.
-Jacob

 

[Gordon]

Jacob H. wrote:
|| To the best of my ability I cannot find any such control panel or

Start-Control Panel if using the XP view, or Start-Settings-Control Panel if
you were upgraded from W2K

 

[Guest]

I had the same problem. "Micah" provided the answer that works for me in
another post:

This reading thing has to do with Office 2003 SP 1 ... in the [Outlook]
Tools menu the
SP added 4 options at the very bottom. One says "Reading options ..." and
that's where this voice thing is. The option is called "Inform Mail
Receiving" ... just uncheck it and that should shut that stupid voice up.

Hope this is helpful.

--Micah

 

[Guest]

where do you find this i can not find it any ehere

I had the same problem. "Micah" provided the answer that works for me in
another post:

This reading thing has to do with Office 2003 SP 1 ... in the [Outlook]
Tools menu the
SP added 4 options at the very bottom. One says "Reading options ..." and
that's where this voice thing is. The option is called "Inform Mail
Receiving" ... just uncheck it and that should shut that stupid voice up.

Hope this is helpful.

--Micah

Jacob H. wrote:
|| To the best of my ability I cannot find any such control panel or

Start-Control Panel if using the XP view, or Start-Settings-Control Panel if
you were upgraded from W2K


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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

 

[Guest]

This fixed it. Thank you very much. I am greatly indebted to you. That was
driving me absolutely nuts.
-Jacob

I had the same problem. "Micah" provided the answer that works for me in
another post:

This reading thing has to do with Office 2003 SP 1 ... in the [Outlook]
Tools menu the
SP added 4 options at the very bottom. One says "Reading options ..." and
that's where this voice thing is. The option is called "Inform Mail
Receiving" ... just uncheck it and that should shut that stupid voice up.

Hope this is helpful.

--Micah

Jacob H. wrote:
|| To the best of my ability I cannot find any such control panel or

Start-Control Panel if using the XP view, or Start-Settings-Control Panel if
you were upgraded from W2K


--
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

 

[Brian Tillman]

where do you find this i can not find it any ehere

Since Jim included Micah's post, you don't need to "find it". You've
already read it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am running Office Professional 2003 SP1 with Outlook 2003. I cannot
find this option anywhere. Is this for Toshibas only?

You have to have enabled Speech in the Control Panel, I believe.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I can not find anything in speech to "turn it on"

On my home system, it's operational only in Word.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Now I am really confused.
Are these 4 buttons available in Outlook 2003 tools in Office Pro 2003
SP1? If so how do I get there?
Is it possible to flick a "switch" in Outlook 2003 and have the emails
announced by speech?
If I turn on speech in Word does it work in all of the suite?

Perhaps this will help: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=826851