The instructions below were written for Outlook 2010 but are almost identical in Outlook 2013.
With Outlook, you can select a passage of text in an email, and hear it spoken through Outlook's voice synthesizer.
NOTE: Please use headphones when using this feature if you are working near other people.
First you need to add the Speak function to Outlook's quick-access toolbar, like this:
Now if you select a passage of text in an email, then click the Speak selected text icon, the selected text will be heard:
To stop the speaking, for example during a long passage of spoken text, click on the Stop speaking selected text icon, which will have replaced the Speak selected text icon during the speaking:
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