Click here for the Mac voice list and information. We have a wide range of text-to-speech synthesised speech voices.This is a list of our current voices for Windows: however, iOS and Web Apps may have slightly different lists, and other voices are available for site licences and other special arrangements.

1. The Kindle app for Mac has it’s own Text to Speech (look under ‘Tools’), but there is no speed control, yet. Hopefully they are working on optimizing this function. There are also free text to speech or read aloud apps to simplify activating read aloud on Windows and Android devices.
2. Click Voice Control in the sidebar. Select Enable Voice Control. When you turn on Voice Control for the first time, your Mac completes a one-time download from Apple. Voice Control preferences. When Voice Control is enabled, you see an onscreen microphone representing the mic selected in Voice Control preferences.

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• You can change the voice that your Mac uses to read text and notifications by going to the System Preferences menu.
• There are about a half-dozen voices available on your Mac by default, but you can download more.
• When you change the text-to-speech voice on a Mac, you can also set how fast it reads or change its language.
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One of your Mac’s various accessibility features is its ability to read out text that’s on the screen. This is great for users who can’t see the screen very well.

But if you use this feature, you might not be satisfied with the default voice, which can sound very robotic.

Luckily, you can change the voice at any time. There are over a hundred different voices available in a variety of languages.

Here’s how to change the speech voice on your Mac.

How to change the speech voice on a Mac

1. Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen and select “System Preferences.”

2. Click on the “Accessibility” option.

3. In the left sidebar, select “Speech.” This will open the menu where you can change the speech settings.

4. To change the voice, click on the “System Voice” tab to open a dropdown menu. By default, you can choose from two male voices and three female voices.

5. To change the rate at which your Mac speaks, click on the “Speaking Rate” slider and move it left or right to slow it down or speed it up, respectively.

6. To enable your Mac to speak out announcements — it’ll let you know when a program needs your attention, and read alerts — read text that you select, or read text that you hover your mouse over, click the box next to those options.

How to add new speech voices on your Mac

1. Open the “Speech” menu again.

2. Click on “System Voice” and scroll down to “Customize.”

3. You’ll now be shown a list of all the voices of various languages and dialects that you can download and add to your speech options. You can select most voices and then click “Play” at the bottom to hear what it sounds like.

4. When you find a voice and language you want, check the box next to it and click “OK” at the bottom of the window. Your Mac will download the voice, and you can then select it.

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