How to Make Word Speak a Document. You can supervise your employees, provide technical support to your customers and manage your business while you listen to your business documents.

Did you know that Microsoft Edge, the built-in web browser on Windows PCs, can read text out loud to you? It works for text on web pages, PDF and Word documents, and more — an incredibly useful ...

You can customize how Narrator works to get the text you are most interested in reading aloud more quickly. But if you merely want Word to read a document aloud, Narrator may be overkill.