To turn off this feature, deselect the “Speak selection” checkbox. When you’re done choosing options, click OK. You can use the controller to pause, resume, or stop the speaking, change the speaking rate, and skip ahead or backward in the text. The controller is especially useful when your Mac is reading long pieces of text. Show controller: Click the pop-up menu to choose to automatically show the controller when you press the keyboard shortcut, or to never or always show it. Sentence style: Click the pop-up menu to have spoken sentences indicated by an underline or with a background color). If you don’t want spoken content highlighted, choose Never from the “Highlight content” pop-up menu. Click the “Word color” and “Sentence color” pop-up menus to choose the highlight color. Highlight content: Click the pop-up menu, then choose to have words, sentences, or both highlighted as your Mac speaks. For example, press the Option and Tab keys together to set the keyboard shortcut as Option+Tab.
Keyboard shortcut: Press the key combination you want to use. To set a different keyboard shortcut and change other settings, click Options: On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Accessibility, then click Spoken Content.īy default, your Mac speaks text when you press the keyboard shortcut Option-Esc.
