Sometimes, listening is more comfortable than reading. There is a lot of content we read every day on our Mac, whether eBooks, website content, or PDF and else.

I know that many of you are wondering, is it possible that Mac can read the text for you. Is there a software that can do that?

The answer may surprise you. Yes, Mac can read for you, and no additional application is required.

Mac with OS X has text to speech technology for a long time, and it keeps on improving it. In this article, we will discuss how we are going to activate text to speech feature.

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Preparation

let’s explore this feature in System Preferences >> Dictation & Speech

The Idea

The idea of this program is simple: When you highlight the text you want, the text will be read to you.

How?

Select text you want to listen, and then click/right click on that text.

Then choose Speech >> Start Speaking

You can learn even more about this feature, via System Preferences >> Dictation & Speech. Choose tab Text to Speech. Here I want to point out one thing: Speak selected text when the key is pressed feature (1), with this feature after you select text you just press Option+esc to start the speech. You are able to Change key for the convenience.

You can also change System voice that you want, based characters and language.