Immersive Reader: read aloud in Word, Edge, OneNote and Teams
Immersive Reader is Microsoft’s reading view for Word, OneNote, Outlook, Edge and Teams. It reads text aloud while highlighting the words and adds tools that help with reading, which makes it popular in schools and with readers who have dyslexia.
This guide explains what it can do, how to change its voice and speed, and what to do when you need the text as an audio file to keep, share or play anywhere.
What Immersive Reader does
It shows the text in a clean view and can read it aloud, highlighting each word. Line Focus narrows the view to a few lines, Syllables splits words, parts-of-speech colors help with grammar, and Picture Dictionary shows an image and reads a word when you select it. Text can also be translated.
Voice and speed
Read Aloud starts from the Immersive Reader toolbar. In Voice Options you set the reading speed and choose another Microsoft voice. The voices available depend on the app and the language of the text.
Where to find it
In Word and OneNote it is in the View menu; in Outlook, Edge and Teams it is offered on messages and supported web pages. Microsoft’s support pages for each app give the current steps.
When you need an audio file
Immersive Reader is made for reading on screen. For a recording of a lesson, a chapter or a set of instructions, voice the text with SuperClonica: type 30 to 100 characters on any voice page to hear it free, with no account, or install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu and run superclonica --text-file lesson.txt --voice F2 --lang en --output lesson.mp3 for a whole text, offline. Our guides for teachers, studying and dyslexia have more ideas.