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Free text to speech for mac os 10.6 how to#

Free text to speech for mac os 10.6 how to#

It turns out I completely over-engineered how to do this, because there is a much easier way to convert text to audio that is guaranteed to work for everyone, you just have to enable it first in Mac OS X 10.6, so let’s get to that next: How to Enable “Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track” in Services in Mac OS X 10.6.8 or lower We showed you how to convert text to spoken audio files via the command line but some people ran into trouble with that method. Older versions of Mac OS X can also accomplish this in one of two ways. That doesn’t mean earlier Mac OS X releases are left out however. This feature is included by default in modern MacOS releases, including MacOS Mojave 10.14, Sierra, High Sierra 10.13.x, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, El Capitan, and Yosemite.

This will also record in the default voice, but with the myriad of realistic new voices available since Lion this feature is even more useful, because by changing the system voice you can also change the voice recorded used for the audiotrack. The audio track will then open up in iTunes, give it a listen, it sounds great. That’s it, the Mac takes care of the rest.

Right-click on the block of text and select “Add to iTunes as Spoken Track” from the menu, or from the ‘Services’ submenu.

Select a group of text you want to transform into a spoken audio file.

The Text to Spoken Audio feature is enabled by default in modern versions of Mac OS, therefore, to use it in MacOS and Mac OS X, all you need to do is: How to Convert Text Into a Spoken Audio File in Mac OS X It is, here’s how to use text to speech on the Mac to speak selected text and save that spoken audio as an audio file, and it works it in all versions of Mac OS X.