As OS X has progressed in development Apple has included more and more speech services options, including enhancing the text-to-speech features with smoother and more realistic voices, and also making this service more globally available to applications. In addition, Apple has provided a dictation service in Mountain Lion to allow conversions of spoken words back to text.
If you use these services, you may find it convenient to create hot-key shortcuts for them. The Dictation service has a default hot-key option, but the Text to Speech option does not, and by default requires you to select a body of text and then choose the speech option from either the system menus or the contextual menu.
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If you want to control these services through hot keys, then you can do so by selecting a predefined hot-key option or defining your own custom options, which can be done in two ways:
- Speech system preferences If you go to the Dictation & Speech system preferences, you can set or change... [Read more]
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