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One way your Mac can speak to you in Mac OS X Lion is using Text to Speech, which converts on-screen text to spoken words. If you’ve used Text to Speech in earlier versions of Mac OS X, you’ll find that it’s pretty much unchanged.

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1. You can right click on the text and click Stop Speaking. You can press the key combination again to stop speaking. In the System Preferences window where you set the Voice and Key Combination you can also make the computer announce the time and warn you when a pop-up window appears.
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Why might you need Text to Speech? Because sometimes hearing is better than reading. For example, you can use Text to Speech to read a column or page to you before submitting it. If something doesn’t sound quite right, give it another polish before sending it off.

Text-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of your computer to play back written text as spoken words. Depending upon your configuration and installed TTS engines, you can hear most text that appears on your screen in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

You can configure this feature in the Speech System Preferences pane:

1. Open the System Preferences (from Launchpad, the Applications folder, Dock, or Apple menu), click the Speech icon, and then click the Text to Speech tab.

2. Choose one of the voices in the System Voice pop-up menu to set the voice your Mac uses when it reads to you.

3. Click the Play button to hear a sample of the voice you selected.

4. Use the Speaking Rate slider to speed up or slow down the voice.

5. Click the Play button to hear the voice at its new speed.

6. Select the Announce When Alerts Are Displayed check box if you want to make your Mac speak the text in alert boxes and dialogs.

   You might hear such alerts as “The application Microsoft Word has quit unexpectedly” or “Paper out or not loaded correctly.”

7. Click the Set Alert Options button to choose a different voice to announce your alerts.

   You can also set the delay between the time the alert appears and when it’s spoken to you.

8. (Optional) If you like, select either of these two check boxes: Announce When an Application Requires Your Attention or Speak Selected Text When the Key Is Pressed.

   They both do what they say they’ll do. In the case of the latter, you assign the key you want to press by clicking the Set Key button.

9. (Optional) If you want to have the clock announce the time, click the Open Date & Time Preferences button, and you’re whisked to that System Preferences pane; then click the Clock tab and select the Announce the Time check box.

   That’s it for your preferences.

Now, to use Text to Speech to read text to you, copy the text to the Clipboard, launch TextEdit, paste the text into the empty untitled document, click where you want your Mac to begin reading to you, and then choose Edit→Speech→Start Speaking. To make it stop, choose Edit→Speech→Stop Speaking.

Set up Dictation

Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Dictation. Turn on Dictation and choose from these Dictation options:

• Choose whether to use Enhanced Dictation, which lets you use dictation when you're not connected to the Internet.
• Choose your language and dialect. Some languages, such as English, have multiple dialects.
• Choose the keyboard shortcut you will use to start start dictating.
• Choose your preferred microphone from the pop-up menu below the microphone icon.
  

In macOS Sierra, you can ask Siri to “turn on Dictation” for you. Siri isn't the same as Dictation, but you can ask Siri to compose short messages, such as email and text messages.

Use Dictation

1. Go to a document or other text field and place the insertion point where you want your dictated text to appear.
   
2. Press the keyboard shortcut for starting dictation, or choose Edit > Start Dictation. The default shortcut is Fn Fn (press the Fn key twice).
   When your Mac is listening, it displays a microphone to the left or right of the page, aligned with the insertion point. If you turn on advanced dictation commands, the microphone appears in the lower-right corner of your screen, and you can drag it to another position. When your Mac can hear you, the input meter inside the microphone rises and falls as you speak.
   
3. Speak the words that you want your Mac to type. Dictation learns the characteristics of your voice and adapts to your accent, so the more you use it, the better it understands you. If it doesn't understand you, learn what to do.
4. To stop dictating, click Done below the microphone icon, press Fn once, or switch to another window.

Speak the following words to enter punctuation or other characters. These may vary by language or dialect.

• apostrophe '
• open bracket [
• close bracket ]
• open parenthesis (
• close parenthesis )
• open brace {
• close brace }
• open angle bracket <
• close angle bracket >
• colon :
• comma ,
• dash -
• ellipsis …
• exclamation mark !
• hyphen -
• period, point, dot, or full stop .
• question mark ?
• quote ”
• end quote ”
• begin single quote '
• end single quote '
• semicolon ;
• ampersand &
• asterisk *
• at sign @
• backslash
• forward slash /

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• caret ^
• center dot ·
• large center dot •
• degree sign °
• hashtag or pound sign #
• percent sign %
• underscore _
• vertical bar |
• dollar sign $
• cent sign ¢
• pound sterling sign £
• euro sign €
• yen sign ¥
• cross-eyed laughing face XD
• frowny face :-(
• smiley face :-)
• winky face ;-)
• copyright sign ©
• registered sign ®
• trademark sign ™
• equals sign =
• greater than sign >
• less than sign <
• minus sign -
• multiplication sign x
• plus sign +

• caps on (formats next phrase in title case)
• caps off (resumes default letter case)
• all caps (formats next word in ALL CAPS)
• all caps on (proceeds in ALL CAPS)
• all caps off (resumes default letter case)
• new line (adds line break)
• numeral (formats next phrase as number)

• roman numeral (formats next phrase as Roman numeral)
• new paragraph (adds paragraph break)
• no space on (formats next phrase without spaces)
• no space off (resumes default spacing)
• tab key (advances cursor to the next tab stop)

If you turned on Enhanced Dictation, you can also use dictation commands to bold, italicize, underline, select, copy, delete, undo, and perform other actions.

About Enhanced Dictation

Enhanced Dictation is available in OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later. With Enhanced Dictation:

• You can dictate continuously.
• You can dictate without being connected to the Internet.
• Your words might convert to text more quickly.
• You can use dictation commands to tell your Mac what to do.

Without Enhanced Dictation, your spoken words and certain other data are sent to Apple to be converted into text and help your Mac understand what you mean. As a result, your Mac must be connected to the Internet, your words might not convert to text as quickly, and you can speak for no more than 40 seconds at a time (30 seconds in OS X Yosemite or earlier).

If you're on a business or school network that uses a proxy server, Dictation might not be able to connect to the Internet. Have your network administrator refer to the list of network ports used by Apple software products.

About Dictation and privacy

To learn about Dictation and privacy, choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, click Dictation, then click the About Dictation & Privacy button. At all times, information collected by Apple is treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy.

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• To use dictation on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap the microphone on the onscreen keyboard, then speak. Consult your iPhone or iPad user guide for details.
• If the Slow Keys or Sticky Keys feature is turned on in the Accessibility pane of System Preferences, the default keyboard shortcuts for dictation might not work. If you need to use those accessibility features, create a custom dictation shortcut: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, click Dictation, then choose “Customize” from the Shortcut menu.