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Text to speech, Project Naptha

One of the reason why i love Mac OS is the text to speech feature, no surprise here as Apple was the first to have this feature in the early days of computing and its steve jobs baby. I love this because besides English it has a lot of different languages and its one that has really good Cantonese text to speech (You have to install it manually). The default voice is by Alex, you could change it but for English Alex seems to be the nearest human voice.

So the way to use this is first set a shortcut on System Preference like this Then highlight any selection of text and press the combination on your keyboard, then alex will speak to you.

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For pdf, either you download and use preview to view the pdf or use chrome's default pdf viewer
For Image, take a look this amazing project Project Naptha, their chrome plugin will make the text inside images able highlight.
Posted by Almond Joseph Mendoza at 10:25 PM Labels: Chrome, Mac, Text To Speech
