Voice and learning out loud: research in plain words

Reading aloud helps you remember a text, but not understand it better

Brady R. T. Roberts et al. (2023) · Four lab experiments · Peer-reviewed

Across four experiments, people answered memory questions about passages better when they had read them aloud than when they read them silently. Reading aloud did not help with comprehension questions. The authors think reading aloud makes information distinctive, so it helps most when the test asks for exactly what was read.