You can use your iPad’s built-in text-to-speech feature to have text read aloud. Follow the steps below to enable this feature and use it within a document.
Enable the Required Settings
Go to Settings > General > Language & Region and turn Live Text on.
Return to Settings > Accessibility > Read & Speak and turn on Speak Selection and Highlighting.
Open your Document
Once the required settings are enabled, you can navigate to the document that you'd like to be read aloud. Once there, you will find the OCR mode button, which will need to be selected. It can be found under the multi-select tool in the document previewer:
Select and Listen to the Text
Once OCR Mode is enabled, highlight the text you’d like to hear. Select Speak from the drop-down menu, and your iPad will read the selected text aloud.
