Microsoft Office can read aloud, talk or speak the text of documents to you. It’s possible in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.

Computer speaking text is mainly suggested for various disabled users under the ‘Accessibility’ name. But ‘Speak’ is also useful if you’re just tired of reading the screen or are proof-reading from another document.

Officially it’s called TTS ‘text-to-speech’ and is part of Windows. Office makes use of that Windows sub-system. Configuration of the Speak/Read feature is done in Windows, as we’ll see below.

Word 2016 for Windows has two similar features.

Speak – has been in the last few versions of Word for Windows.

Read Aloud – is a new, improved version of Speak available in the most recent Word 2016 releases

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