Rabbit: Speed up Spoken Content's reading pace. Steps for activating text to speech in macOS All macOS systems come with a default text to speech feature called Spoken Content.

By default, speaking is enabled when you press Option-Esc. Choose the Speak selected text when the key is pressed checkbox. Accessibility is where you will find text-to-speech options.

Fast-Forward: Skip ahead to the next sentence and read from there. Here’s how to have your Mac read text aloud: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences.

This lets you navigate to a new place in the text to start reading again, and will close the controller if you don't have Show controller in Spoken Content's preferences set to Always.

Stop: Stop Spoken Content's reading entirely.

Hitting Play after pausing will restart the reading where you left off, no matter where you've clicked since.

Play/Pause: Start or pause Spoken Content's reading.

Rewind: Go back to the start of a sentence and read from there.

While the built-in dictation in Mac OS X is good, it doesnt learn when you correct it.

Turtle: Slow down Spoken Content's reading pace. Dragon Dictate is by far the most accurate.

The controller will show the name of the application it's reading from, along with a few buttons. The reading will begin, and Spoken Content's controller will appear. To make Spoken Content start reading, hit Option + Esc, or whatever keyboard shortcut you set for the feature. You can also highlight part of a text to have Spoken Content read just that part out, and not have it read anything before or after.

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