To use the text to speech to hear your text without recording it, choose Edit, Speech, Start Speaking in TextEdit (choose Edit, Speech, Stop Speaking when you’re done). Double-click on this album to open it and play your recording. iTunes will open in the background and your recording will show up in an album called Text to Speech.

It can not only be used via the website of the developer, but also by a desktop application to install on Mac or. Select the text for your recording in TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track. NaturalReader is a text-to-speech service.Choose a preset, type any text and let’s speak VST Speek text to speech is 100 freeware, the plugin is based on the Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) vocal synthesis software created by Softvoice Inc for the Commodore 64. With Services selected on the left side of the pane, scroll down on the right side of the window and check the box next to the Text category. VST Speek is a free vocal synthesis VST plugin for recreating the old skool robotic text to speech we all love.This will open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard preferences.

Open TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Services Preferences.

To use Services to create a recording of a text file:

Video Tutorial: Bigger Version (.mov, 5 MB).

Using the Services feature built into Mac OS X, you can use the text to speech built into TextEdit to create a recording of your text you can play in iTunes or on your iPod.

TextEdit, the text editor built into Mac OS X, includes a text to speech feature that will read back any text you type into the editor.

Free text to speech for mac