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Recently i've been messing around with the speech recognition on my new iMac and it got me to wondering if it was possible to make my mac read out-loud pages documents or web pages etc....Anyone know if its possible???
 
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System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing and the option is "VoiceOver"
 
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p0ssum man said:
Recently i've been messing around with the speech recognition on my new iMac and it got me to wondering if it was possible to make my mac read out-loud pages documents or web pages etc....Anyone know if its possible???
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Yes, just highlight the text, then press Command + S
 
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Yes, you can...



Oh! You wanted to know how? Okay, say you have a sentence in Text Edit. Choose Edit: Speech- Start Speaking. This works with with documents, and even e-mails in the Mail Application. Hope this helps!
 
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wow, you know, I never tried it until now. For speech recognition it's actually really good. I'm impressed. When it gets to a word it doesn't recognize (eg. if you misspelled it), it will just spell it out.
 

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