How To Make Google Docs Read Aloud

The accessibility section will appear in your google docs toolbar.

How to make google docs read aloud. Launch google docs on your computer. Select and highlight a portion of text or select all then click speak. Now type a word or a sentence or open a document and highlight the part you want google docs to read. You may be wondering why you need google to read out loud the text to you. Open the doc and click the pencil icon in the lower right hand corner.

Google docs will read aloud the selected text to you. 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. Select tools from the menu bar. At the bottom right near the time tap select to speak. You can make google docs read text to you out loud with the text to speech function.

Then tap a line of text or drag your finger over an area of the screen. You ll need to use the google chrome web browser along with the chromevox extension which will read the text. Your chromebook will read the section aloud and. You ll also find some interesting options for the screen reader feature under accessibility speak. Once you re in edit mode you re ready to listen.

Text to speech function has many potential use cases. 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. Make sure to check the turn on screen reader support and click ok. To activate text to speech you ll need to first select the word or section you want read aloud. If no text is selected text to speech will read from the beginning of your document.