speech

How to make your Mac read you stories

On the keyboard press the keys you wish to use.

Your Mac has a perfectly fine reading voice that sounds fairly human. Here’s how to get your Mac to read things to you.

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Make your iPhone speak its auto corrections

Auto-Correction in action.

Autocorrect on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can be a blessing or a nightmare. Here’s a clever trick to have the device alert you to the changes it makes.

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Customise a Service

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In Snow Leopard some Services are actually Automator Workflows. That means you can edit them. Here’s how.

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Assign a keystroke to speech

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Assign a keystroke to have your Mac speak to you.

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