![]() There have been a number of different solutions for decades - but not within Microsoft Office, and not with the ability to work alongside the user as edits are being made. It’s not like this kind of solution is new. What Read Aloud does is fairly easy to understand - it reads back text within Office applications. And then there are the usability scenarios for the sight-impaired. Of course, in this modern era of people driving cars while seemingly unable to put their cell phones down (ever heard of hands-free, people?!?) the idea of asking Siri/Cortana/Hal to read an email or the content of a website while we’re driving is exciting. When I think of Word or any other application or website being able to read back me what is on the screen, my mind goes to one place: back to the days of Atari game consoles and Stranger Things-era haircuts when my friends and I used to spend hours spelling out phrases phonetically for the computer to dictate back to us in its terse Dalek phrasing.
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