Outlook Email Notification Sound Download
Yesterday’s post got several responses with questions about a “You’ve got mail” voice. Some people would like to know how to turn it on and others would like to know how to turn it off.
Outlook and Windows do not ship with a “You’ve got mail” voice by default. If you’ve got this voice, it probably is because of additional software that is installed on your system. If you’d like to have this voice, you can add it by changing your Windows’ Sounds Scheme or by setting up a rule in Outlook.
Turn off the voice
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When you have this voice, you probably have a Toshiba computer with the Toshiba Speech System software on it. Amongst others, this software will allow you to have your mail be read out loud for you. By default it is also configured to notify you of new emails when you receive it by saying “You’ve got mail” and when starting Outlook it will inform you of remaining unread mails in your Inbox by saying “You’ve got # unread mails”.
To turn these notifications off, use Tools-> Reading Options… and disable the “Inform mail receiving” option. Mac os x unarchiver download.
To disable this Toshiba add-in completely in Outlook, you can disable the Exchange Client Extension called “Mail Speak (TOSHIBA)”.
To get rid of the software completely, uninstall the following 3 applications via Control Panel;
- TOSHIBA Speech System Applications
- TOSHIBA Speech System SR Engine <language> <version>
- TOSHIBA Speech System TTS Engine <language> <version>
Turn on the voice
If you don’t have a Toshiba computer but you’d like to have a “You’ve got mail” voice when receiving an email, you can change the default Windows sound for “New Mail Notification”. Trey songz tremaine album download.
To change your Sound Scheme in Windows choose;
- Windows XP; Category View
Start-> Control Panel-> Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices-> Change the sound scheme - Windows XP; Classis View
Start-> Control Panel-> Sounds and Audio Devices-> tab Sounds - Windows Vista and Windows 7
Start-> Control Panel-> Hardware and Sound-> section Sound-> Change system sounds
You can use pretty much any wav-file for this. There are many to choose from within Windows already. To get a specific “You’ve got mail” voice I’d recommend doing a search on the Internet with you favorite search engine such as Google or Bing for the phrase; you’ve got mail sound
If you’d like to get started right away, I’ve got a sound clip for you which you can download here.
Note: If you do not want to have this voice sound for every new email that you receive, you can setup a rule so that it will only sound under specific conditions. For details, see this post.
When I receive an email from a certain contact or Contact Group, can I get a different “New Email” sound than the default?
Outlook Email Notification Sound Downloads
You can set a custom sound for a specific contact (or by a variety of any other specific message property) by using a rule.
- Open the Rules and Alerts wizard:
- Outlook 2007 and previous
Tools-> Rules and Alerts… - Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
File-> Manage Rules & Alerts
- Outlook 2007 and previous
- Press the New Rule… button and start with a blank rule:
- Outlook 2003
Start from a blank rule - Outlook 2007
Check messages when they arrive - Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
Apply rule on messages I receive
- Outlook 2003
- In the next screen you can select the conditions.
In our case we select: from people or public group. - In the bottom section, click “people or public group” to select the address(es) from your Address Book.
- Click Next to go to the Actions screen.
- Select the action: play a sound.
- In the bottom section click “a sound” to select a sound file from your computer.
- Note that you should use a wav-file for this.
- Click next to advance to the next screen to set any exceptions when needed.
- Once you’ve done that (or skipped that), click Next to give the rule a name.
- Click Finish and then OK to close the open windows.
Via the “Play a Sound” rule action, you can hear who is emailing you.
Note: You can of course make many variations with this rule. For instance, you can opt to only hear a sound for people who are in your Contacts folder and disable the default sound in Outlook altogether (see below). For this you must use the condition “sender is in specified Address Book”.
Double New Mail Sound
When a new message arrives, you could now hear a double sound; the default Outlook sound and the one we just configured to play via a rule.
You can work around this by disabling the default sound in Outlook and instead create an extra “play a sound” rule with the default Windows Notify Email.wav sound.
Additionally, add the condition “stop processing rules” action to the rule we created for the specific contact and sort the rules in such a way that the rule for the specific contact is listed above the one for playing the generic sound.
To disable the default email sound in Outlook go to;
- Outlook 2007 and previous
Tools-> Options…-> E-mail Options…-> Advanced E-mail Options…-> section: When new items arrive in my Inbox-> option: Play a sound - Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
File-> Options-> section: Mail-> option group: Message arrival-> option: Play a sound