When you’ve got an enormous doc and no time to examine it, the most recent Phrase function will make it easier to get it completed. Microsoft introduced that Microsoft 365 Copilot in Phrase can now learn aloud doc overviews, letting you hearken to them on the go like podcasts or audiobooks.

Along with studying aloud doc overviews, Phrase helps you to customise the expertise with studying velocity controls, the power to leap again or ahead to key elements of audio, pause, and even save the recording to OneDrive to hearken to it later or share with another person.

Voice doc overviews at the moment are obtainable in Phrase on Home windows (model 2506, construct 18925.20138) and Phrase for the online. When you’ve got a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, you’ll be able to strive it out by opening a doc, clicking the Copilot button within the Dwelling tab, and asking the AI to generate an audio overview. As soon as the overview is generated, Copilot will current you with a media participant and playback controls, corresponding to velocity, soar ahead/backward, and pause.

To avoid wasting the recording, click on the three-dot button and choose “Save to OneDrive.” Lastly, you’ll be able to entry previously-generated overviews in your Microsoft 365 Copilot chat historical past.

For now, audio overviews work solely in English (Microsoft guarantees so as to add extra languages quickly), they usually require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. There are additionally two different limitations:

• Audio overview solely works for on-line recordsdata which might be in OneDrive and SharePoint, and never native recordsdata which might be in your system or exterior drives.

• Recordsdata require a minimal of 100 phrases to generate an audio overview.

In case you missed it, Microsoft lately introduced that the brand new GPT-5 by OpenAI is now obtainable in Microsoft 365 Copilot, supplying you with a extra highly effective and fashionable AI assistant that will help you work with paperwork. GPT-5 can also be obtainable within the Microsoft Copilot app on computer systems and cell units.