Text to Speech

I am in need of some sort of application that does text to speech. I know what you're going to say, just use the speech command in system preferences, but I don't want to have to Command A and then the speech command every time I want the computer to say a phrase. What I would like is an application that says each word as you type them, like it says each word after you press the space bar.

Text edit has speech built in - see Edit menu.
Not sure about speaking as u type.

Thanks for the thing about TextEdit, I didn't know that. I would still like an application that can speak as you type, if anybody knows of one.

check out Sys Prefs/Universal Access/Seeing/Voice over and see if you can select what u need in there.

All I can really do with voice over is make the computer say icup, then I chuckle. If I try to do a word like... "dog" it does Dee Oh Gee

What about this setting;


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Yes! That's exactly what I wanted! Thank you so much!