How to get a Windows computer to read text aloud to you using 2 built-in screen-reading tools. ... How to get Word to read a document aloud. 1. In Word, open the document you want to be read aloud. 2.

For Word documents in particular, you can open the document in Word, then select File > Save as… to save the document as type “Web page.” Then, you can open the resulting web page in Edge.