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Text-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of your computer to play back written text as spoken words. Depending upon your configuration and installed TTS engines, you can hear most text that appears on your screen in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
There are multiple tools for listening to your emails in Outlook: Read Aloud reads all or part of your email. Speak reads only the text you've selected. Speak is available for Windows only. For more information about Speak, see Use the Speak text-to-speech feature to read text aloud.
Use the table to find out which Immersive Reader capabilities are currently supported for Microsoft Edge based on Chromium. To navigate the table, locate your language in the table's Language column, then refer to the adjoining row where supported capabilities are listed.
For this feature to work, you need to download a text-to-speech engine in the language or languages that you want to use. To learn more, and to download TTS engines, see Using the Speak feature with Multilingual TTS .
You can install additional language accessory packs after installing Microsoft 365. If a language accessory pack is described as having partial localization, some parts of Microsoft 365 may still display in the language of your copy of Microsoft 365.
Check accessibility while you work in Outlook. Avoid using tables. Use built-in headings and styles. Create paragraph banners. Add alt text to visuals. Add accessible hyperlink text and ScreenTips. Use accessible font format and color. Create accessible lists. Adjust space between sentences and paragraphs. Request accessible email.
Automatic language detection requires a sentence of text to accurately identify the correct language. Depending on the length of your sentences, you might need to type several sentences before Office has enough contextual information to detect the language and apply the correct dictionary.
Getting started with Office Sounds. Excel for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 Outlook for Microsoft 365 More... Sound effects can enhance your productivity in Microsoft Office by providing audio cues. For example, a sound cue might notify you when options on the screen change.
Add, edit, or delete words in a custom dictionary. To quickly add a word to a your default dictionary, right-click the word in a document, and select. To edit a word, delete it, and then add it with the spelling you want. To save words by default to this custom dictionary, see.
In Word and Outlook, you can use accent marks (or diacritical marks) in a document, such as an acute accent, cedilla, circumflex, diaeresis or umlaut, grave accent, or tilde. For keyboard shortcuts in which you press two or more keys simultaneously, the keys to press are separated by a plus sign (+) in the tables.
Before you send an Outlook email message or share a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, or OneNote notebook, run the Accessibility Checker to make your content easier for people with disabilities to read and edit.