To stop the computer speaking click on the ‘ Sound ‘ menu and Select ‘ Stop Speaking ‘ or Press ‘ Apple ‘ + ‘.

Click on the ‘ Sound ‘ menu and select ‘ Speak All ‘ with the mouse or press ‘ Apple ‘ + ‘ J ‘ on your keyboard.

SimpleText can use Apple Text-to-Speech Mac OS facilities to read aloud text files. Making your computer read Simple Text documents

Click the close icon in the top left of the speech options box or press ‘ Apple ‘ + ‘ W ‘ on the keyboard to close the window.

Note: You can edit the list of phrases and add your own, to do so choose ‘ Edit phrase list ‘ from the list in he pop-up menu next to ‘ Speak the phrase: ‘.

Click on the pop-up menu next to ‘ Speak the phrase: ‘ to see a list of available phrases and click on one to choose it.

In the ‘ Speech ‘ control panel lick the checkbox next to ‘ Speak the phrase: ‘ to turn this option on.

You can also have the alert speech start with a phrase, to do this:

Click on a delay time on the slider named ‘ Wait before speaking: ‘ below ‘ Speak the alert text ‘ to have the computer speak the dialogue immediately click on ‘ 0′ for a 5 second delay click on ‘ 5′.(No keyboard shortcut).Click the checkbox next to ‘ Speak the alert text ‘ to have your Mac speak the text in dialogue boxes.Click the drop down menu next to ‘ Options: ‘ and Select ‘ Talking Alerts’.Click on the slider next to ‘ Rate ‘ to speed up or slow down the voice.Click on the pop-up menu next to ‘ Voice: ‘ and select a voice, for example ‘ Kathy ‘ by clicking on it and then click the speaker button next to it to play a sample of the selected voice.Click on the ‘ Control Panels ‘ sub-menu and then click on ‘ Speech ‘ to open the ‘ Speech ‘ control panel (No keyboard shortcut).Click on the ‘ Apple ‘ menu (no keyboard shortcut).It does not provide full screen reading but offers speech feedback in dialog boxes and will only speak in some parts of specific applications, for example a Word document. Note: Apple Text-To-Speech technology is a basic text reading facility built in to the operating system, it only provides a framework that other applications can use.

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