Thursday, November 18, 2010

Text to Speech in Macosx 10.5... Nice

I recently discovered that MacosX has a built-in text to speech tool that enables the transformation of a piece of selected text to speech. I just select a piece of text, use my shortcut keyset and listen to the text.

Go to System Preferences --> Click Speech (at the system Tab)

In there you can configure different voices, shortcut keys for function activation. The tool is very powerful as one would not expect, there are good tunings (tonations) based on commas etc.