With the Update on Leopard Alex showed on my drive. My bookshelf is my extensive audible library.įor this reason I love the built in Text to speech feature in Mac OS X. Other peoples shelves are bursting with books. But I consider myself to be on the auditory learners side. Sure, great typography like on this page can greatly improve the reading experience. Worst are my skills, reading on a screen. I dont enjoy much sitting down and reading a long text. Therefore, as a result, you can hear the transcripted voice. Matching phonetics and their sounds are adjoined. Our database already has the human audio for all the phonetics or you can simply say transcriptions. The text to voice tool uses a speech synthesizing technique in which the text is at first converted into its phonetic form. Whether a single character or big paragraph you will be able to listen to it. You can hear the audio recitation of the text instantly. This tool helps you to easily convert your written text into speech or voice.

Scroll down to the Speak command, select it, and then click Add.Īfter you have added the Speak command to your Quick Access Toolbar, you can hear single words or blocks of text read aloud by selecting the text you want to hear and then clicking the Speak icon on the Quick Access Toolbar.To select a default Mac “text to speech” voice, just follow these steps:ġ) Click the “Apple” menu on the Mac menu barįigure 1: Mac OS X System Preferences, Speech buttonįigure 2: The Mac OS X System Preferences “Text to Speech” panelĥ) Select from the System Voice options that are available. In the Choose commands from list, select All Commands. Next to the Quick Access Toolbar, click Customize Quick Access Toolbar. You can add the Speak command to your Quick Access Toolbar by doing the following in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote: To learn how to configure Excel for text-to-speech, see Converting text to speech in Excel. To use text-to-speech in different languages, see Using the Speak feature with Multilingual TTS. For example, if you're using the English version of Office, the English TTS engine is automatically installed. Depending upon your configuration and installed TTS engines, you can hear most text that appears on your screen in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Text-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of your computer to play back written text as spoken words. You can use Speak to have text read aloud in the language of your version of Office.

Speak is a built-in feature of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

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