Although some voices are very robotic, there are a few which aren’t and sound more like a human.īut the TTS is far from perfect it is very basic and barebones and lacks options like pause/play, picking up from a selected word instantly and a lot more. To change the language option simply go to Accessibility > Speech. It also supports a lot of other languages other than English and there are a lot of voices to choose from in all the languages. To get started, highlight or select the text which you want to be read and then right click, go to Speech and then to Start Speaking and your Mac should start reading the text to you. macOS TTSīefore we get too ahead of ourselves and start downloading third party apps, it is very trivial to know that macOS itself comes with a built-in TTS and you can use it anywhere on your computer from the Notes app to any browser.
And today, we take a look at some of the best TTS options available for Macs. In our previous articles we saw some of the best text to speech apps for Windows and Android.
