Have you ever had a headache and you just can’t bare to read text from a computer screen? Or maybe you have a large page of text that you want several people to hear at the same time. These are just a few of the reasons you might want to use voice-to-speech, which is where the computer uses a synthesized voice to read text to you out loud.
- [Voiceover] Have you ever had a headache…and you just can't bear to read text…from a computer screen?…Or, maybe you have a large page of text…that you want several people to…hear at the same time.…These are just a few of the reasons where…you might want to use Text to Speech,…which is where the computer uses…a synthesized voice to read text out loud to you.…By default Text to Speech is already enabled in El Capitan.…To see it in action you can just open a page full of text.…So let me start with a webpage here.…And all I need to do is go into the Edit menu,…I want to find the section here that says Speech,…and I'm going to hit this button that says Start Speaking.…
- [Voiceover] Welcome to Explore California.…Tours, Mission, Contact, Resources,…Explores, Find a Tour, explore our--…- [Voiceover] So you can see as soon as…I hit that option we hear a synthesized voice.…So pretty quickly I went back into the same menu…back to Speech and I hit the button that says…Stop Speaking so we don't have to hear that go on.…
Released
4/14/2016- Dragging files from one application to another
- Using the Dictation and Text to Speech features
- Printing to PDF
- Customizing Finder windows
- Securing files with encrypted disk images
- Recording audio and video with QuickTime
- Using the Activity Monitor to troubleshoot performance issues
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