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Windows Read Aloud
The Read Aloud button within Microsoft Word is a new version of Speak and available in most recent Word 2016 releases (Office 365 on the university network)
Read Aloud in Microsoft Word
Click on Read Aloud (toggle on and off) to have text spoken from the cursor position onwards or select Ctrl + A to select the entire document. The words are highlighted.
The Read Aloud has a small control panel on the top right of the document window:
Options include:
- Back to go back to the start of the current or previous paragraph
- Play and Pause
- Forward to go forward a paragraph
- Settings to change reading speed and voice selection
- Ctrl + A + Space will start or close Read Aloud
Read Aloud is also one of the extended spellcheck right-click options to speak the corrected spelling error.
Note: Images and descriptions of the software are courtesy of © 2019 Microsoft Corporation
