–Do you want to give your eyes a break when using Microsoft Teams from your mobile or PC? If your answer is “Yes”, you do not necessarily have to detach yourself from the screen of your device to be able to do so.
Microsoft’s communication and collaboration platform, has a function that is able to read all messages aloud, tool that will allow you to avoid reading the text of these messages with your eyes.
Have Microsoft Teams read your chat messages aloud to you
Before we show you the steps you have to do to be able to use the Microsoft Teams Immersive Reader on your mobile or computerIt is important to clarify that you must have the latest version installed.
On the other hand, if you’ve never used Microsoft Teams, you must open an account to access this function, Not sure how to do it? Here we explain how to create an account for free.
Use the “Immersive reading” function from the PC
How to make Teams read text aloud on PC
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- Open the Microsoft Teams application from your PC. Once open, you must click on the group or project where is the message you want to hear aloud.
- Click on the message in question, and then hit the three small horizontal dots shown above that message.
- Select the option that says “Immersive reader”.
- If you did all the steps correctly, Microsoft Teams will start reading the text of that message out loud.
Use the “Immersive reading” function from your mobile
- First you have to open the application “Teams” from Microsoft from your mobile device.
- Once inside it, you must click on the group where is the message you want Teams to read aloud to you.
- Therefore, you should press and hold on the message you want to hear out loud.
- A menu with several options will be displayed, click on the last one, the one that says “Immersive reader”.
- In seconds, Microsoft Teams will start reading the text out loud.
Can’t find the “Immersive Reading” option in Microsoft Teams?
This feature may not appear in the Microsoft Teams app for PC or mobile, Why does this happen? Because the platform might not have the necessary permissions.
In case you experience this problem on your Android mobile, you must activate all the app’s permissions, how do you do this? From the section called “Settings” that you can find on your mobile.
If this happens to you on your PC, you will have to log out of your account, restart the computer and log in again with your data (email and password). If you do what we have told you correctly, the function “Immersive reading” It should appear in Microsoft Teams.
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