Word to audio: hear your .docx
Drop a Word document and Bookvox reads it aloud. Headings become chapters, so you can move around a long manuscript or report.
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How Word documents are read
- Headings become chapters. Paragraphs styled Heading 1, 2 or 3, or lines like “Chapter Seven” and “Epilogue”, start a new section in Contents.
- Deleted tracked changes are left out. Text you've deleted with Track Changes on isn't read. Insertions you haven't accepted yet are read, so accept or reject changes first if that matters.
- Comments, headers and footers are skipped. You hear the body of the document.
- Long stretches are split. A document with no headings is divided into parts of about 3,000 words at paragraph breaks.
Hear your own writing
Listening is one of the best ways to proofread. Your ear catches repeated words, missing words, clumsy rhythm and sentences that run on, things your eyes skim past because they know what you meant. Writers, students and lawyers use read-aloud for exactly this. Click any sentence to replay it.
Google Docs and older Word files
From Google Docs, choose File → Download → Microsoft Word (.docx) and open that. Old .doc files (Word 97–2003) need to be opened in Word and saved as .docx first.
Questions
Does it keep my formatting?
Bookvox reads the text and uses your headings as chapters. Bold, italics, fonts and images don't affect the speech.
Can it read tables?
Text in tables is read, cell by cell, in document order. Large data tables don't make much sense read aloud, so you may want to skip past them.
Is my manuscript uploaded?
No. The .docx is opened inside your browser and stays on your device. That matters for unpublished work.
Can I turn my manuscript into an audiobook?
You can download it as MP3, which is great for listening and for beta readers. For retail stores, read our Word-to-audiobook guide first.