When we tested Portuguese with an English excerpt in the middle, the narration flowed seamlessly between them. Including picking out excerpts in a second language. We’ve been testing text-to-speech in several languages across the office (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch) and were surprised at how good it was narrating in all of them. Learning tools (captions & audio descriptions).Still, for users who don’t or can’t use the cloud, don’t require advanced options, or work alone, the stand-alone is a worthwhile investment and there are several new features worth the upgrade. Therefore, once you buy an Office 2019 license, it will never expire-but you also won’t be getting any fancy new updates Microsoft might put out. But don’t expect the perpetual licenses to exist for long, as Microsoft has increasingly been shifting the focus to its Office 365 subscription model. Microsoft has stated that there is likely to be at least one more. Three years after the last standalone release, a new version of Office is finally here! Today we’ll take a look at the differences between Office 2019 and its older sibling, Office 2016 and tell you why you need to upgrade.įirst of all: Office 2019 is a one-time release and although it was suspected it might be the last perpetual license for Office, this is not the case.
