favicon Speak Selected Text with a Keystroke in Mac OS X

  • OS X Daily Sep 15, 2012, 2:49 pm by: Paul Horowitz144 pts
    OS X Daily writes, The excellent OS X text to speech function can be activated with a simple keystroke, but first you have to enable the feature: Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu Choose the “Dictation & Speech” panel then select the “Text to Speech” tab Check the box next to “Speak selected text when the key is pressed” Once this is enabled, select any text then hit Option+Escape to speak the text in the system voice. To speak all text, hit Command+A to select all, followed by the Option+Escape keyboard shortcut, and all words will be spoken using the...

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