HOW TO let your PC "Read Aloud" your content and documents

With Microsoft's Immersive Reader feature becoming part of more Microsoft products like the Edge browser, Word, PowerPoint, it is great to see the Read Aloud option also that comes along with it. 

If your activities involve reading from a screen for long periods, some of it can be handed over to this Read Aloud feature so that you can sit back & listen while a computerized voice reads out content you specify in a locale specific accent that you can configure.

You can open local PDF files in Microsoft Edge browser and have the Immersive Reader's Read Aloud feature read out the content for you.

Did you know, Amazon Alexa, Amazon's voice-based AI-powered digital assistant has a desktop version for the PC and can read Kindle books that are in your account? You can ask Alexa on PC app on Windows to read the book by specifying the title. By just saying, "Alexa, read Kindle book", I got Alexa to start reading out aloud the book I was going through on Kindle. To resume reading, Alexa was able to understand when I just said, "Alexa, resume reading".

As I chose English-Indian as Alexa's language, it was able to read transliterated Hindi words in the English book with the right accent.