How To Make Google Docs Read Aloud

You may be wondering why you need google to read out loud the text to you.

How to make google docs read aloud. Launch google docs on your computer. Select tools from the menu bar. Google docs will read aloud the selected text to you. Now type a word or a sentence or open a document and highlight the part you want google docs to read. You can make google docs read text to you out loud with the text to speech function.

Once the required text is selected press ctrl alt x keys to start reading aloud. If no text is selected text to speech will read from the beginning of your document. The accessibility section will appear in your google docs toolbar. Text to speech function has many potential use cases. At the bottom right near the time tap select to speak.

There is also a google docs keyboard shortcut for this purpose. To activate text to speech you ll need to first select the word or section you want read aloud. Select and highlight a portion of text or select all then click speak. How to read text with google docs screen reader to activate the screen reader you simply have to highlight the text you d like to read out and press the press ctrl alt x. You ll also find some interesting options for the screen reader feature under accessibility speak.

Open the doc and click the pencil icon in the lower right hand corner. Your chromebook will read the section aloud and. Make sure to check the turn on screen reader support and click ok. Take for instance tts give users with speech disabilities a way to communicate easily using symbols or typed text that translate into natural sounding text to speech. Click on accessibility settings.