Mac OS X features VoiceOver, a spoken English interface that gives the visually impaired, or those with learning disabilities, a new way to interact with their Macs. With it, your Mac can read web pages and text documents out loud. It also provides an audible cues of your workspace and activities taking place on your computer. To get around your Mac, you use your keyboard instead of your mouse. You can press buttons, move sliders, select and deselect checkboxes, and more. Here's how to enable VoiceOver on your Mac.
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VoiceOver allows the visually impaired to interact with a Mac through spoken words. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences. Click Universal Access to displays its preferences. Click the Seeing tab, then select the On radio button below VoiceOver to enable it. Click the Open VoiceOver Utility button to customize VoiceOver for you (or someone you know).
You can adjust how your Mac speaks, how to track and navigate, and more. Tip: Want to learn more about VoiceOver? Check out the built-in Mac Help guide on your Mac (in the Finder, choose Mac Help from the Help menu and type VoiceOver in the search field).
TextEdit, the text editor built into Mac OS X, includes a text to speech feature that will read back any text you type into the editor. Using the Services feature built into Mac OS X, you can use the text to speech built into TextEdit to create a recording of your text you can play in iTunes or on your iPod. (.mov, 5 MB). (HTML).
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(Tagged PDF) To use Services to create a recording of a text file:. Open TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Services Preferences.
This will open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard preferences. With Services selected on the left side of the pane, scroll down on the right side of the window and check the box next to the Text category. Close the Keyboard preferences window.
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Select the text for your recording in TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track. ITunes will open in the background and your recording will show up in an album called Text to Speech. Double-click on this album to open it and play your recording. To use the text to speech to hear your text without recording it, choose Edit, Speech, Start Speaking in TextEdit (choose Edit, Speech, Stop Speaking when you’re done).