Can I get Cortana to read a webpage to me?

[WPCentral Question]

Can I Open a webpage like the news and have Cortana read that page or a highlighted text out load.

 

[Alienhead95]

No, but you download the app, share to speech. That will read it for you.

 

[Cortana8]

Oh come on Microsoft, Cortana can't read highlighted text from a website or word document, that's embarrassing, get your act together already, I love my Lumia 1020 but not able to do simple things like reading text is very annoying.

 

[toryresto]

I agree

 

[Bible-Thumber Ministries]

This is ridiculous! With all the things Cortana can do in windows 10; and it cant simply read the text on a page? Any page?! Really Microsoft, you cant do better than that! I do like the new windows 10 but this is inexcusable. One should not have to go and get a text reader somewhere else which may or may not be trusted... FIX IT!!! ASAP!!! :angry:

 

[Bible-Thumber Ministries]

Ridiculous, you should not have to... and how do you know if you can trust it???

 

[Joe920]

MS recently added the option to read ePub files aloud in Edge on the desktop (right?), so I'm hoping they come to their senses and enable that for any text displayed in the browser. Not sure if they use Cortana or the lower quality local voice for ePub reading. In the meantime, share to speech is amazing, highly recommended.

 

[deaths conundrum]

yes you can, right click on the page it opens a menu,
select all
print
read aloud
obviously, select read aloud. once Cortana starts speaking you can move the curser to anywhere on the screen and it will pick up from there. Not sure how to pause or end it however.

 

[Ryujingt3]

In Edge, go to the web page you want, highlight the text and right-click and then choose 'Read Aloud' and it should get read to you.

 

[Rick James11]

In Edge, go to the web page you want, highlight the text and right-click and then choose 'Read Aloud' and it should get read to you.

I have tried all of that and its not working. Also have seen suggestions to use narrator but that's an accessibility feature that is for people with disabilities and doesn't function in any way like having Siri speak the selected text or page.

 

[Ryujingt3]

With the way things are going for poor Cortana it may be that MS has removed this ability right now.