How to Setting Text to Speech Options on a Macintosh Computer

Submit Your Tip

How to Setting Text to Speech Options on a Macintosh Computer – This is a place for the community to provide tips and advice on How to Setting Text to Speech Options on a Macintosh Computer. This topic was created by Sandra Vicca and the tips are provided by the community. The tips you add here can be your own or referred from another site. The best tips are then ranked at the top when up-voted by members of the community.

Tip 1 - Give Your Mac a Voice with Text-to-Speech - Tuts+ Computer Skills Tutorial

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dennis Husch | permalink

Mountain Lion introduced us to Dictation, a Siri-like speech-to-text service for your Mac. But what if you want your Mac to talk to you? OS X has had some of the best Text-to-Speech functionality in the industry for a long time. Let's take advantage of it and give your Mac (and even your iPhone) a voice! | Difficulty: Intermediate; Length: Short; Tags: OS X

For further reading: http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/give-your-mac-a-voice-with-text-to-speech--mac-4943 ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to Activate Text to Speech in Mac OSx

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Joe Ortiz | permalink

So you want your Mac to read something to you? Read more to find out how. Open System Preferences.
Tags: WikiHow, Activate Text to Speech in Mac OSx, wiki, how to articles, how to instructions, DIY, tips, howto, learn, how do I

For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Activate-Text-to-Speech-in-Mac-OSx ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to change the Mac's system voice

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Juan Arguello | permalink

The Mac has a text to speech feature, where the Mac reads selected text. In this how-to, you will learn how to change the system voice, as well as add new voices.

For further reading: http://www.macworld.com/article/1164787/how_to_change_the_mac_s_system_voice.html ^[3]