Click on the pop-up menu next to Speak the phrase: to see a list of available phrases and click on one to choose it.

In the Speech control panel lick the checkbox next to Speak the phrase: to turn this option on.

You can also have the alert speech start with a phrase, to do this:

Click on a delay time on the slider named Wait before speaking: below Speak the alert text to have the computer speak the dialogue immediately click on 0â€² for a 5 second delay click on 5â€².(No keyboard shortcut).

Click the checkbox next to Speak the alert text to have your Mac speak the text in dialogue boxes.

Click the drop down menu next to Options: and Select Talking Alerts’.

Click on the slider next to Rate to speed up or slow down the voice.

Click on the pop-up menu next to Voice: and select a voice, for example Kathy by clicking on it and then click the speaker button next to it to play a sample of the selected voice.

Click on the Control Panels sub-menu and then click on Speech to open the Speech control panel (No keyboard shortcut).

Click on the Apple menu (no keyboard shortcut).

It does not provide full screen reading but offers speech feedback in dialog boxes and will only speak in some parts of specific applications, for example a Word document. Note: Apple Text-To-Speech technology is a basic text reading facility built in to the operating system, it only provides a framework that other applications can use.

Shortcut for speech to text on mac