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Read Aloud is the newer and better form of the old Speak feature from Word 2016-2010. It’s available in Word 365 and Word 2019.Read Aloud has more controls than the older Speak feature and it appears in more places within Word. The voice selection and settings in Windows are very different. Windows has the underlying ‘Narrate’ technology that lets Word talk.The official documentation for Read Aloud is awful. This article explains how to use Read Aloud, the different locations for settings, troubles that can arise and a truly dreadful error message.Read Aloud vs SpeakWhat’s different aside from the name and a fresh round of Microsoft hype?‘Read Aloud’ is promoted to the Review tab (instead of being hidden away like Speak)Microsoft has sprinkled Read Aloud options all through Word 365 as part of a drive to improve Accessibility options in Office. In short, look for little speaker icons on some menus.Read Aloud will start reading from the current cursor or selection. You’re not limited to just reading a selection.Clicking the Read Aloud button a second time will stop/pause the voice. There’s also a shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Spacebar to start/stop reading.Read Aloud uses the enhanced Narrator and Accessibility technology in Windows 10, the settings for that are at Windows 10 Settings | Ease of Access | Narrator. Speak uses the older, less refined ‘Text to Speech’ features available in the Control Panel | Speech Recognition area.There’s a lot of confusion about Read Aloud vs Speak. Tips and advice which confuse the two or try to merge them into a single feature. While their main job is the same, reading text aloud, the underlying systems are quite different, and the settings separate.Speak still exists in Word 365 and Word 2019, if you prefer to use it, add it to the Quick Access Toolbar. See Hear a document with Speak in Word 2016, 2013 and 2010Which to choose?Read Aloud is the better choice, if available in Word 365 or Word 2019.There’s a lot that’s not properly documented about Read Aloud in Word. Microsoft’s instructions are, to put it politely, minimal. The page

TextAloud 3 had a separate toolbar and separate buttons / actionsįor speaking single articles and multiple articles. Reduce the number of toolbar buttons required, without losing functionality previously available.Ī new Auto Continue option further simplifies the user interface.The buttons can also be configured to automatically speak a text selection (if text is selected). “Speak” and “To File”, with associated dropdown menus to control where speaking begins (From Cursor, From Start of Article, etc.).Įach button can be configured to work the way you normally use TextAloud 4, with other options available in the dropdown menu. TextAloud 4 has improved this so there are now separate buttons, In TextAloud 3, several individual buttons / menu items controlled where speaking starts (Speak Article Aloud, Speak Articleįrom Cursor Aloud, Speak Selected Text Aloud, and so on).We reworked the entire user interface and settings dialogs as outlined below:Ĭonfiguration items previously available under the TextAloud 3 Tools menu have all been moved to a new Settings dialog. To enhance your Text to Speech experience. This exciting new release features a completely new user interface, improved controls and added features

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