This tutorial will show you how to start, pause, continue, and close Read Aloud in Copilot on Web, Windows 11, and Windows 10.
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered digital assistant designed to help you with a range of tasks and activities.
When you sign in to Copilot with your Microsoft account Copilot uses your Microsoft account to provide personalized assistance and access by default to a wide range of features. For example, saving and syncing your Copilot chat history on all devices you sign in to Copilot with the same Microsoft account.
Read Aloud is a tool in that uses the text-to-speech feature of an installed language to read the text of a web page audibly. Since Copilot is a web app, you can use Read Aloud to read text in Copilot.
You can change the voice and voice speed to customize Read Aloud in Copilot how you like.
Contents
- Option One: Start Read Aloud in Copilot
- Option Two: Pause Read Aloud in Copilot
- Option Three: Continue (resume) to Read Aloud in Copilot
- Option Four: Read Previous or Next Paragraph Aloud in Copilot
- Option Five: Close Read Aloud in Copilot
1 Open the copilot.microsoft.com site in Microsoft Edge, or Copilot app on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
2 Perform one of the following actions to start Read Aloud in Copilot: (see screenshot below)
- Press the Ctrl + Shift + U keys.
- Right click on an empty area in Copilot, and click/tap on Read aloud.
1 Perform one of the following actions to pause Read Aloud in Copilot after starting: (see screenshots below)
- Press the Ctrl + Shift + U keys.
- Click/tap on the Pause button on the Read aloud bar at the top.
- Right click on an empty area in Copilot, and click/tap on Pause read aloud.
1 Perform one of the following actions to continue Read Aloud in Copilot when paused: (see screenshots below)
- Press the Ctrl + Shift + U keys.
- Click/tap on the Continue button on the Read aloud bar at the top.
- Right click on an empty area in Copilot, and click/tap on Continue to read aloud.
1 Perform one of the following actions to read the previous or next paragraph in Copilot when Read Aloud is started: (see screenshots below)
- Click/tap on the Read previous paragraph or Read next paragraph button on the Read aloud bar at the top.
- Right click on an empty area in Copilot, and click/tap on Read previous paragraph or Read next paragraph.
1 Perform one of the following actions to close Read Aloud in Copilot when ready to stop and quit: (see screenshots below)
- Click/tap on the Close (X) button on the Read aloud bar at the top.
- Right click on an empty area in Copilot, and click/tap on Close read aloud.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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