Microsoft Read Aloud for New Outlook

Hello Company USer_OutlookOneWon,

Thank you for posting this case in Microsoft Community!

Based your description, you want to know if Microsoft Read Aloud is available in New Outlook for Windows. I would like to cooperate with you working on this case.

To clarify this case, you may open any one email in New Outlook for Windows. You will see Immersive reader options and please click it will new window pop up to check Read Aloudfeature available now.

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For more information and key features supported in New Outlook, you may check this Microsoft article as reference:

Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows

The new Outlook for Windows for organization admins

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Your understanding and patience will be appreciated.

Thank you!

It is not the same as the classic Outlook "Read Aloud". The Immersive Reader is a pain, it requires you to double-click each email (resulting in tonnes of open emails) and visual of the text is bizarre. And how do you read aloud a text you have just drafted, to help listen, make sense and correct? Why not keep the simple ability of placing a cursor over any text (incoming or drafted), right-click and select "Read Aloud"? How do you read your emails on your mobile phone? Why was Cortana removed? Is there any replacement feature we are not aware off? Is Microsoft telling us to go back to Apple native mail?

Please include this back in - Highlighting text when writing and clicking read aloud is a common feature in the entire 365 suite that people use. I really dislike the new outlook. You have taken away features that people rely on every day for no reason. Clearly a half baked product release - with no actual understanding of how users are actually using your product.

It is very interesting how long its taking Microsoft to return a function that is considered exceptional to people with disabilities and there has been no acknowledgment at all.

Shameful!

Doesn't disabling the READ ALOUD feature in the new Outlook fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

Please turn the Read Aloud feature back on (while drafting an outgoing email). I can only currently use the Read Aloud feature for emails coming in from others. Multiple people in this thread have commented about their disability. Please help.

I also struggle with learning disabilities, and the read-aloud function was critical to me in processing emails. Very unfortunate.