Drag the slider bar to adjust the reading speed.Use the gear icon in the toolbar to access the Settings menu. Use the on-screen toolbar options (play/pause, skip forward, and skip back) to control the feature while listening.Ĥ. When reading an email in Outlook, select Read Aloud from either the Message tab (from an open email) or the Home tab (from the preview pane in your Inbox).ģ.When authoring or reviewing content in Word, select Review > Read Aloud.There are two ways to access the Read Aloud feature:.Place your cursor where you want to start listening from.Ready to check it out? Follow the steps below to try out the feature in Word or Outlook. ( NOTE: We’ve added the more natural-sounding voices in 64 different languages, for a total of 142 voices.) How it works In response to this feedback, we’re happy to add these new and improved options! Some of you shared that you felt that the original voices sounded too robotic, and you were looking for more natural-sounding reading voices, like the ones we offer for the Read Aloud feature in Microsoft Edge.

Whether you use it to “proof-listen” to a document or an email to catch errors, or simply to give your eyes a break, you want to hear your content read by natural-sounding voices. Read Aloud in Word and Outlook is a great way to both author and read content. More natural-sounding voices in Read Aloud I’m excited to share that we are continuing to improve the Read Aloud feature, adding new and more natural-sounding voices in Word and Outlook for Windows.

Hi Office Insiders! My name is Emily Tran, and I’m a Program Manager on the Office Voice team.

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