{"id":14111,"date":"2020-01-31T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:54:33","slug":"how-to-get-your-mac-computer-to-read-text-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2020\/how-to-get-your-mac-computer-to-read-text-aloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get your Mac computer to read text aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        How to get your Mac computer to read text aloud\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to download any third-party apps or additional software to read text aloud on your Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select &#8220;System Preferences&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;Accessibility&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select &#8220;Speech&#8221; in the left sidebar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tick the box next to &#8220;Speak selected text when the key is pressed.&#8221; The default way to read commands is to press the &#8220;option&#8221; + &#8220;Esc&#8221; keys.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, you simply have to highlight the text you want to hear and press the specified keys on your keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-to-get-mac-to-read-text\">businessinsider.com\/how-to-get-mac-to-read-text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to download any third-party apps or additional software to read text aloud on your Mac. After that, you simply have to highlight the text you want to hear and press the specified keys on your keyboard. Ref: businessinsider.com\/how-to-get-mac-to-read-text<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-tips","category-news","category-tips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14114,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions\/14114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}