Just a few years ago when we referred to the widely used text editors, we generally found ourselves with very simple office programs. However, in recent times these have greatly advanced offering a multitude of functions that improve our experience, Word is a clear example of it.
In the past, the applications belonging to this software sector focused on offering us what is essential to create and edit text files. The most advanced offered us some additional functions and components, but quite basic. But in recent years things have changed to a great extent thanks to the widespread use of these office software. Here we are going to focus on the most used and popular suite which is Microsoft office. Specifically, we will talk about one of the programs that could be considered one of the most used globally.
We refer to the Word editor, a software solution that is probably more than familiar to most. How could it be otherwise, it continues to offer us everything we need to work with texts, but at the same time we find innumerable Additional functions that make things easier for us. For example, we will have the possibility of working simultaneously with a multitude of elements that enrich the content of our documents.
A clear example of all this can be found in the function that we are going to focus on in these lines. And, for those of you who don’t know, we already have a very useful feature that takes care of read word documents for us Available starting with Office 2019 and in Microsoft 365.
Don’t waste time, Word reads the documents for you
With all this, what we want to tell you is that we have the possibility of making the Microsoft program read aloud through PC speakers, the text of the documents. As you can imagine, all this will allow us to do other things while we listen to the content of any file loaded here. Also, considering the broad compatibility with multiple formats This program opens up a wide range of possibilities.
The first thing we do for all this is load the text document in a way, or we create it through the keyboard as we have always been used to. But it may be the case that this document is made up of a good number of pages and we do not have time or desire to read them. This is something that we achieve through the function using text to speech or TTS that we find in the menu option Check.
In the left part of the program options bar that appears at that moment, we find the direct access Read out loud. As soon as you click on it, a new panel will appear on the right side of the main interface that allows you to start the function or configure it previously.
Configure the reading function of the text editor
And it is that we must bear in mind that the Microsoft program offers us some interesting parameters to improve reading documents aloud. We just have to click on the icon that has a gear wheel to access these customizable options.
The first thing we can do in this regard is to choose the voice that most interests us or likes to listen to when reading the document. It is worth mentioning that here we will have the possibility to select a male or female voice for the execution of this functionality. In addition, depending on what we are doing or the circumstances of each case, we may also adjust speed at which the content will be played out loud. To finish, we will only have to click on the Play button to start playback.
