The controller is especially useful when your Mac is reading long pieces of text. Show controller: Click the pop-up menu to choose to automatically show the controller when you press the keyboard shortcut, or to never or always show it. Sentence style: Click the pop-up menu to have spoken sentences indicated by an underline or with a background color). If you don’t want spoken content highlighted, choose Never from the “Highlight content” pop-up menu. Click the “Word color” and “Sentence color” pop-up menus to choose the highlight color. Highlight content: Click the pop-up menu, then choose to have words, sentences, or both highlighted as your Mac speaks. For example, press the Option and Tab keys together to set the keyboard shortcut as Option+Tab.
Keyboard shortcut: Press the key combination you want to use. To set a different keyboard shortcut and change other settings, click Options: On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Accessibility, then click Spoken Content.īy default, your Mac speaks text when you press the keyboard shortcut Option-Esc.
