

Select 'System Preferences.' Click 'System Preferences.' Devon Delfino/Business. Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen. Reading Email Mail puts all incoming email into your Inbox the statistic after the word Inbox lets you know how many messages you haven't yet read. It may be necessary to Restart the Mac as well after signing in.

Simply go to Settings | Ease of Access | Speech | Advanced Settings, and below the current voice, you will find Manage Voices and Add Voices. How to get your Mac to read text aloud 1. If you would like the computer to read a text that you have selected click the box next to Speak selected text when the key is pressed. The key factor in the support article is the Troubleshooting paragraph: If you don’t see Read Aloud available, make sure that you’re signed in to your Microsoft 365 account, and then try restarting the Word app or logging out and back in. Make sure that Destination is set as Save as PDF, then click Save.

You can add a voice! There are a plethora of voices to choose from. Go to the webpage you want to read aloud and press Ctrl + P. It will change voices with a document that has been collaborated on because some paragraphs may be set to different English variants with different voices installed (i.e., American, UK, etc.). It will use the voice you have selected but it will change based on language. Hear selected text read aloud On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. If it cannot find a voice to match your language setting, it will attempt to use an available voice but will alert you (i.e., This document includes text in a language that doesn’t match the Text-to-Speech voice on your computer).īe aware that unexpected voice changes can occur. Should there be no exact language match, Read Aloud will try another voice from the same language group. To see all the voices that are installed, you must go to Windows Settings | Ease of Use | Narrator and scroll down to Personalize Narrator’s Voice.
